Léon Rosenfeld (14 August 1904 – 23 March 1974) was a Belgian
Belgium
* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium.... physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many Physics#Major fields of physics spanning all length scales: from atom particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole .... . He obtained a PhD at the University of Liege
University of Liège
The University of Li?ge , in Li?ge , Wallonia, Belgium, is a major public university in the French Community of Belgium. Its official language is French .... in 1926, and he was a collaborator of the physicist Niels Bohr
Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Denmark physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.... . He coined the name lepton
Lepton
Leptons are a family of elementary particles, alongside quarks and gauge bosons . Like quarks, leptons are fermions and are subject to the electromagnetic force, the gravitational force, and weak interaction.... . In 1949 Léon Rosenfeld was awarded the Francqui Prize
Francqui Prize
The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist.... for Exact Sciences.
