Born February 2, 1920 in Paris, France.
President of the European Academy of Arts Sciences and
Humanities, Paris, France.
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universities of Louvain, Uppsala and
Barcelona; Honorary President of the International Academy of
Quantum Molecular Science; Officer de la Légion D'Honneur; Officier
de l'Ordre National du Mérite; Officier des Palmes Académiques.
President of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities.
Author of:
- The fundamentals of theoretical chemistry (Gauthier Villars
1956).
- Quantum theory of chemical reactivity (Gauthier Villars 1967).
- Chemical carcinogenesis and molecular biology (Wiley 1966)
with P. Daudel.
- Quantum chemistry (Wiley 1983) with G. Leroy, D. Peeters and
M. Sana.
- Vision moléculaire du Monde (Hachette 1981).
- L'Empire des Molécules (Hachette 1991).
- Le SIDA (AIDS) (Flammarion 1994) with L. Montagnier.
Important
Contributions:
Introduction of the concept of free valence number (with A.
Pullman); Establishment of a decreasing relation between the
free valence of a carbon atom of a conjugated hydrocarbon and the
potential barrier of a substitution reaction occurring on this
atom; Introduction of the concept of differential density showing
the effect of bonding in molecules; Introduction of the concept of
loge - region of an atom or a molecule in which there is a high
probability of finding a given number of electrons with a certain
distribution of their spins; Discovery of the dependance of the
mean life of a radioelement of the electronic density near the
radioactive nucleus. |