Louis Néel's Nobel Prize is shared with another scientist. Who is he?
Enrico Fermi
Albert Einstein
Isidor Isaac Rabi
Alfvén
Answer
The Nobel Prize in Physics for 1970 was jointly awarded to Hannes Alfvén and Louis Néel. Alfvén received the prize for "fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics, with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics", while Néel was recognized for "fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics".
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