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Chapter 2: Portrait of three founders of the ILL
for having neglected to provide this training pre-war. He had great respect for Louis de Broglie, a lone pioneer ignored by the university, especially because of his solitary nature.
The area where the CENG, the ILL and ESRF and various institutes of the CNRS are sited together has been named the “Polygone Scientifique Louis Néel”. It is a just tribute to someone who acquired the land and who established or facilitated the establishment of all these research laboratories. It is difficult to understand that the town of Grenoble hasn’t named a main road after him. The town owes him so much for having transformed a nondescript provincial town into a metropolis known world-wide.
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