Pierre Weiss

French aviator
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IntroFrench aviator
PlacesFrance
wasAviator
Work fieldMilitary
Gender
Male
Birth17 October 1889, Nancy
Death8 August 1970 (aged 80 years)
Star signLibra
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Biography

Pierre-Ernest Weiss (25 March 1865 – 24 October 1940) was a French physicist who 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.
Weiss was born in Mulhouse and died in Lyon.

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