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THE Nestor of French physics, Marcel Brillouin, formerly professor of physics in the Collège de France, died on June 16 at the age of ninety-four. He belonged to a generation of men of science who could not only master the whole realm of their subject but also make important original contributions to almost every branch of it. As a result they were able to present that subject to their students in a most perfect form, thus providing them with a solid foundation for their own future activities in this field. Prof. Brillouin‘s lecture courses at the Collège de France provide an outstanding example of this almost extinct art, and many of them have been published in book form, like the Well-known "Leçons sur la viscosité des liquides et des gaz"
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FÜRTH, R. Prof. Marcel Brillouin. Nature 162, 362–363 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162362a0
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