Pierre Weiss, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pierre Weiss

French physicist

Date of Birth: 25-Mar-1865

Place of Birth: Mulhouse, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 24-Oct-1940

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Pierre-Ernest Weiss (25 March 1865, Mulhouse – 24 October 1940, Lyon) was a French physicist specialized in magnetism.
He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907.
Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him.
Weiss also developed the molecular or mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory, that lead to the discovery of the Curie-Weiss law.
Alongside Auguste Picard, Pierre Weiss is considered one of the first discoverers of the magnetocaloric effect in 1917.Pierre Weiss made several experimental discoveries that led to the development of the strongest electromagnets of the beginning of the 20th century.
He worked at the universities of Rennes, Lyon, ETH Zurich where he was raised, and finally at Strasbourg.
In these academic institutions he founded several renown laboratories.

Johannes Meiner (1867–1941)
Description	photographer
Date of birth/death	28 January 1867	15 June 1941
Location of birth/death	Zittau	Zürich
Work location	Switzerland
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