Léon Brillouin

10.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
33 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Léon Brillouin is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Léon Brillouin has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in Léon Brillouin's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (7 papers), Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (7 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). Léon Brillouin is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (7 papers), Statistical Mechanics and Entropy (7 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). Léon Brillouin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and France. Léon Brillouin's co-authors include R. W. Hellwarth, Nicholas Chako, Robert O. Brennan, Colin Cherry, Bruno Leuenberger, D. Petitgrand, Jørgen Kjems, Hans U. Güdel and Ray A. Lucas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Statistical Association.

In The Last Decade

Léon Brillouin

31 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Science and Information Theory 1953 2026 1977 2001 1956 1961 1953 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Science and Information Theory
    1956 1.3k citations Léon Brillouin, R. W. Hellwarth Physics Today profile →
  2. Wave Propagation and Group Velocity
    1961 852 citations Léon Brillouin, Nicholas Chako Physics Today profile →
  3. Wave propagation in periodic structures : electric filters and crystal lattices
    1953 596 citations Léon Brillouin CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →

Peers

Léon Brillouin
Albert A. Mullin United States
R. Bruce Lindsay United States
Jon Mathews United States
Kurt E. Shuler United States
H. Goldstein United States
R. W. Hamming United States
Richard F. Voss United States
I. Prigogine Belgium
A. John Mallinckrodt United States
Juliette Florentin Belgium
Albert A. Mullin United States
Léon Brillouin
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Countries citing papers authored by Léon Brillouin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Léon Brillouin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Léon Brillouin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Brillouin, Léon. (1987). Les tenseurs en mécanique et en élasticité. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 19 indexed citations
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Leuenberger, Bruno, Hans U. Güdel, Jørgen Kjems, D. Petitgrand, & Léon Brillouin. (1985). Magnetic dimer excitations in cesium chlorochromate (Cs3Cr2Cl9) studied by neutron scattering. Inorganic Chemistry. 24(7). 1035–1038. 15 indexed citations
3.
Brillouin, Léon. (1967). GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY OF GRAVITATION AND EXPERIMENTS. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 57(6). 1529–1535.
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Brillouin, Léon. (1965). THE ACTUAL MASS OF POTENTIAL ENERGY, II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53(6). 1280–1284. 9 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon. (1965). THE ACTUAL MASS OF POTENTIAL ENERGY, A CORRECTION TO CLASSICAL RELATIVITY. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53(3). 475–482. 10 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon & Robert O. Brennan. (1965). Tensors in Mechanics and Elasticity. Journal of Applied Mechanics. 32(1). 238–238. 91 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon. (1962). Poincare's theorem and uncertainty in classical mechanics. Information and Control. 5(3). 223–245. 1 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon. (1961). Thermodynamics, Statistics, and Information. American Journal of Physics. 29(5). 318–328. 10 indexed citations
9.
Brillouin, Léon & Nicholas Chako. (1961). Wave Propagation and Group Velocity. Physics Today. 14(2). 62–64. 852 indexed citations breakdown →
10.
Brillouin, Léon. (1959). La science et la théorie de l'information. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 27 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon. (1959). Inevitable experimental errors, determinism, and information theory. Information and Control. 2(1). 45–63. 7 indexed citations
12.
Brillouin, Léon. (1958). Book review. Information and Control. 1(4). 402–408. 1 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon, et al.. (1958). Information and Control.. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 53(282). 620–620. 124 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon & R. W. Hellwarth. (1956). Science and Information Theory. Physics Today. 9(12). 39–40. 1293 indexed citations breakdown →
15.
Brillouin, Léon. (1955). ENTROPY AND GROWTH OF AN ORGANISM. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 63(4). 454–455. 2 indexed citations
16.
Brillouin, Léon. (1953). Wave propagation in periodic structures : electric filters and crystal lattices. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 596 indexed citations breakdown →
17.
Brillouin, Léon. (1953). The Negentropy Principle of Information. Journal of Applied Physics. 24(9). 1152–1163. 175 indexed citations
18.
Brillouin, Léon. (1951). Maxwell's Demon Cannot Operate: Information and Entropy. I. Journal of Applied Physics. 22(3). 334–337. 190 indexed citations
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Brillouin, Léon. (1951). Physical Entropy and Information. II. Journal of Applied Physics. 22(3). 338–343. 71 indexed citations
20.
Brillouin, Léon. (1951). Information Theory and Most Efficient Codings for Communication or Memory Devices. Journal of Applied Physics. 22(9). 1108–1111. 5 indexed citations

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