Erwin Felix Lewy-Bertaut


Erwin Félix Lewy-Bertaut (born 1913 in Glubczyce, died November 6, 2003 in Grenoble) is a crystallographer and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

He was born into a Jewish family living in Upper Silesia, his father was a teacher of classical languages ​​in a gymnasium in Głubczyce. Left studied law and philosophy at the University of Freiburg, but due to political changes in Germany he had to emigrate to France in 1933. Eventually he settled in Bordeaux. He was incorporated into the French army in 1939, which interrupted his doctoral studies. After the French defeat, he received a provisional identity card signed as Felix Bertaut. During the occupation he was first located in the south of France controlled by the Vichy Government, but then moved to Paris, where he met with the field of crystallography. Finally, he joined Professor Louis Néel's team in Grenoble. In 1949 he defended his diploma thesis on physics related to magnetism. His research has been and continues to be used in the field of atomic physics.

In 1971, the Laboratory of Electrostatics and Metals Physics, founded by Néel with Lewy-Bertaut, was divided and one of the newly formed units was the Crystallography Laboratory, which was headed by Lewy-Bertaut in 1971-1981. He contributed to the development of crystallography, among others. through diffraction studies.

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