Léon Nicolas Brillouin (French: [leɔ̃ nikɔla bʁijwɛ̃]; August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. He made contributions to quantum mechanics...

In mathematics and solid state physics, the first Brillouin zone (named after Léon Brillouin) is a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space...

In electromagnetism, Brillouin scattering (also known as Brillouin light scattering or BLS), named after Léon Brillouin, refers to the interaction of light...

Paul Langevin and Léon Brillouin who contributed to the microscopic understanding of magnetic properties of matter. The Brillouin function is a special...

his 1944 popular-science book What is Life? Later, French physicist Léon Brillouin shortened the phrase to néguentropie (negentropy). In 1974, Albert Szent-Györgyi...

Brillouin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Marcel Brillouin (1854–1948), French physicist Léon Brillouin (1889–1969), French physicist...

of the tides. Brillouin died in Paris (16 June 1948). His son Léon Brillouin, also had a prominent career in physics. Marcel Brillouin (1904). Propagation...

theoretically described by physicists such as Arnold Sommerfeld and Léon Brillouin. The previous definition of phase velocity has been demonstrated for...

named after physicists Gregor Wentzel, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, and Léon Brillouin, who all developed it in 1926. In 1923, mathematician Harold Jeffreys...

In quantum chemistry, Brillouin's theorem, proposed by the French physicist Léon Brillouin in 1934, relates to Hartree–Fock wavefunctions. Hartree–Fock...