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Biography of Ionel Solomon

{\mathbf Ionel Solomon} (b. 1929- in free, Greater Roumania) is a French-Roumanian physicist Member of the French Academy of Sciences, CNRS Research Director, Professor at the Polytechnic School in Paris.

Scientific Career

• 1949--1951 PhD, Polytechnic School (\'Ecole Polytechnique) in Paris
• 1951--1952 Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK
• 1955--1956 Research Fellow at Harvard University, USA
• 1953-1962 Researcher in the resonance group of the Atomic energy Commission (Commissariat Energie Atomique in Saclay)
• 1962 Director of the Laboratory for Condensed Matter (Solid-State) Physics (Laboratoire de Physique de la Mati\'ere Condens\'ee), at the Polytechnic School in Paris
• 1962 Head of Research at C.N.R.S.
• 1962 Head of Conferences
• 1968 CNRS Research Director
• 1973-1976 Physics Departement Head at the Polytechnic School in Paris 1973-1974 President of the Societ\'e Fran\caise de Physique (the French Physics Society).
• 1975-1979 Professor, at the Polytechnic School in Paris
• 1976 Invited Visiting Professor at the Xerox Research Center, Palo Alto,USA
• 1980 Invited Visiting Professor at Tokyo University
• 1981-1985 Founder and Scientific Director of SOLEMS Company
• 1987 President of the Scientific Council of PHOTOTRONICS (a French-german Company for dphotovoltaic products)
• 1988, June 22, Elected Member of the Physics Institute of the French Academy of Sciences
• Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics

Major Scientific Contributions

Ionel Solomon made major contributions to the fields of: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Solid-state physics, Semiconductors and Photovoltaics. In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance he derived fundamental equations that bear his name, and specify the nuclear spin-echo response and dipole-dipole interactions in solids (the Solomon equations).

Awards and Prizes

• 1958 Grand Prix for Research (with Anatole Abragam and J. Combrisson)
• 1963 The CNRS Silver Medal
• 1969 Robin Prize of the French Physics Society (Societe Francaise de Physique)
• 1972 Holweck Prize of the Institute of Physics and S.F.P (French Physics Society)
• 1981 The Y. Peyches Prize of the Academy of Sciences
• XYZ

Publications

I. Solomon. "Amorphous Semiconductors", In "Topics in Applied Physics", Ed. Springer Verlag, Berlin (1979).

I. Solomon. Relaxation Processes in a system of Two spins. Phys. Rev. 99, 559 (1955)

I. Solomon, M.P. Schmidt, H. Tran Quoc. Selective low-power plasma decomposition of silane-methane mixtures for the preparation of methylated amorphous silicon. Phys. Rev. B ,38: 9895 (1988)

I. Solomon, B. Drevillon, H. Shirai, N. Layadi. Plasma deposition of microcrystalline silicon: the selective etching model., J. Non-crystalline Solids, 164--166, p. 989 (1993).

K. Rerbal, F. Jomard, J.N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, I. Solomon. Visible luminescence of porous amorphous Si(1--x) Cx:H due to selective dissolution of silicon. Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, p. 45 (2003)

K. Kerbral, J.N. Chazalviel, F. Ozanam, I. Solomon. Temperature dependence of photoluminescence in amorphous Si1-xCx:H films. Eur. Phys. J., B51, p. 61 (2006).