Marcel Brillouin
1854–1948 (age 94)
physicist/mathematician
Biography
Marcel Brillouin emerged from the 19th-century French academic world as a gifted physicist and mathematician, pursuing studies that led him to explore the subtleties of wave propagation, statistical mechanics, and the nascent field of quantum ideas while teaching at several universities.
He served the French scientific community with a steady hand, sharing his insights in numerous publications, mentoring generations of students, and witnessing a world transformed by two wars before resting in the cimetière de Saint-Martin-lès-Melle in 1948.