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Died. Paul Langevin, 74, Nobel-Prize-winning French physicist, whose studies of sound waves gave a basis for modern methods of submarine depth sounding, onetime associate of radium discoverers Pierre & Marie Curie; in Paris...
Municipal Councilor; or Mme. Hèlèna Solomon-Langevin, alumna of Oswiecim concentration camp; or Mme. Félix Eboué from overseas France, widow of the late great Negro Governor General of French Equatorial Africa? Last week he prevailed upon Jules to withdraw his resignation and to discuss a revolution-by-law in the Assembly's old-fashioned barbershop...
Last week a reception at the Sorbonne welcomed the return from Switzerland of famed, 72-year-old Paul Langevin, long the leader of Parisian physicists. His arrest in October 1940 while at his post in L'Ecole de Physique was the first break in the Nazi wooing of French scientists. He was imprisoned for two months, but released after protest riots in which several students were killed. The underground helped him to escape from house arrest at Troyes and cross the border. His son-in-law, Jacques Solomon, was among the organizers (all of whom were shot...
...Nazis found few collaborators among French scientists But one great name, Alexis Carrel, has become anathema to Langevin and other resisters. Throughout the occupation Carrel had plenty of money for research under the big Fondation Franfaise Pour L'Etude Des Probleèmes Humains, created for him by Vichy. Last week Carrel declared that his foundation had concerned itself exclusively with scientific studies inspired by his Man the Unknown. But top-rank scientists charged that the foundation had a distinctly pro-Nazi tinge, that its subsidized sociological studies had served as a front for researches in "racism." After Paris...
...rumor last week that a committee of noted Frenchmen was coming to the U. S. to aid the condemned men. On this committee were reported to be Georges Lecomte, of the French Academy, Louis Loucheur, the Countess de Noailles, onetime Minister of the Interior, Louis Malvy, Professor Paul Langevin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Dreyfus (retired...