Louis Michel

Professeur permanent à
l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
Membre de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris

4 May 1923 - 30 December 1999

On the occasion of his 90th anniversary

This web page is based on the material prepared for the book "SYMMETRIES IN NATURE. The scientific heritage of Louis Michel" (Eds. Thibault Damour, Ivan Todorov, Boris Zhilinskii) to be submitted to World Scientific for publication in the series "20th Century Physics".

The site includes the biography of Louis Michel (in French) written by Thibault Damour.

• La Vie et l'Œuvre Scientifique de Louis Michel. Membre de l'Académie des Sciences. Officier de la Légion d'honneur. Commandeur de l'Ordre national du Mérite. 4 mai 1923 - 30 décembre 1999.

Number of photos of Louis Michel with his collaborators and family members from Michel's family archive, with permission from Thèrése Michel. Unfortunately, some of personages appearing on photos are not identified. We would greatly appreciate if the visitors of this site could help us to prepare more detailed photo captions by sending information about identification of persons on the photos. (Please, email your suggestions to zhilin@univ-littoral.fr)

• Photos of Louis Michel, his collaborators and family.

Bibliography of Louis Michel works which includes along with published scientific articles also papers of general and historical interest, and a list of his lecture notes and unpublished manuscripts from Michel's scientific archive in IHES.

• Bibliography of Louis Michel.

Short commentaries to Louis Michel scientific works as they are prepared for the memorial volume.

• Commentaries to Louis Michel scientific works prepared for Louis Michel memorial volume.

We include here a small number of scientific publications for which we have at present free permissions for reproduction. These publications cover different aspect of Louis Michel scientific works during more than 50 years of his scientific activity.

• L. Michel
  
  Interaction between four half-spin particles and the decay of the μ-meson.
  Proc. Phys. Soc. A 63 (1950) 514-531; Corrigendum 1371. With kind permission of IOP Publisher.
• L. Michel
  
  Selection rules imposed by charge conjugation.
  Nuovo Cimento 10 (1953) 319-339. With kind permission of Società Italiana di Fisica.
• L. Michel
  
  The present status of CP, T and CPT invariance.
  in Nobel Symposium 8: Elementary particle theory.Relativistic groups and analyticity. Wiley Interscience Division, New-York (1969), 345-365. With kind permissions of Nobelstiftelsen.
• L. Michel
  
  Points critiques des fonctions invariantes sur une G-variété.
  Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci.(Paris), 272 (1971) 433-436. With kind permissions of Académie des Sciences, Paris.
• M. Kleman, L. Michel, G. Toulouse
  
  Classification of topologically stable defects in ordered media.
  J. Physique Lett. 38 (1977) L195-L197. With kind permissions of EDP Science.
• L. Michel, J. Mozrzymas
  
  Les concepts fondamentaux de la cristallographie.
  C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, II, 308 (1989) 151-158. With kind permissions of Académie des Sciences, Paris.
• L. Michel
  
  Scientific Culture. Lecture given on October 20, 1992 at McConnell auditorium, Smith College,
  in The Cultures of Science, ed. M. Senechal, Nova Science Pub. N-Y. (1994) 5-18 With kind permissions of Nova Science.