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[Nagy Denes Lajos <nagy AT rmki.kfki.hu>]

Dear Colleagues,

below I am forwarding Jean-Marc Greneche's obituary on Jean-Marie Friedt 
who passed away late November due to a brain attack. The Mossbauer 
Community will deeply miss him.

      Denes L. Nagy

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                  Jean-Marie Friedt (1940-2008)

It is with deepest sadness that the French Group of Mössbauer Spectroscopy 
announces the passing of Dr Jean-Marie Friedt in November 2008.

Jean-Marie Friedt who was born in 1940 was graduated as engineer in 
Strasbourg. As volunteer to non-active military service, Jean-Marie went 
to Brazil (CBPF at Rio de Janeiro)  and then he joined CNRS as researcher 
returning at the Nuclear Research Centre of Strasbourg-Cronenbourg up to 
1986. He got his PhD (1969) at the University of Strasbourg in France. 
His thesis was devoted to "Mössbauer spectrometry of Fe from electronic 
capture of 57Co in cobalt alloys". Jean-Marie developed a Mössbauer 
laboratory with wide experimental facilities giving rise to various 
isotopes including rare earth and actinides (57Fe, 119Sn, 151Eu, 121Sb, 
129I, 161Dy, 155Gd, 169Er, 170Yb, 197Au, 231Pa, 237Np). The main topics 
were oriented to metallurgy, disordered solid states (oxide glasses, rare 
earth based metglasses, spin glasses), magnetism of rare earth and 
actinide systems, density of charge and of spin in insulating and 
conducting systems, ... . Jean-Marie and his coworkers as Jean-Pierre 
Sanchez and Marc Maurer were working in collaboration with different 
French Institutes (Recherche sur la catalyse at Lyon, Curie at Paris, CEA 
at Saclay and ENSC and Le Bel at Strasbourg) and from different countries 
as Technical University of Munich with M. Kalvius, F. Wagner and J. 
Litterst, Bochum University with H.  Micklitz, Kyoto University with T. 
Shinjo, CBPF of Rio de Janeiro with J. Danon and E. Baggio-Saitovitch, and 
Nuclear Physics Institute and University of Karkow with A. Hrynkiewicz and 
K. Tomala.

His scientific activities are recognized through about 80 publications and 
some chapters of books and he was a very active member of the French Group 
of Mössbauer spectroscopy during 80's.

Jean-Marie was invited for long stays at Argonne National Laboratories and 
at Munich while many scientists among them J.  Danon, G.  Shenoy, H. 
Micklitz, J. Litterst, A. Hrynkiewicz, M. Pasternak, A.  Vasquez were his 
guest at Strasbourg in the frame of international bilateral scientific 
agreements. Jean-Marie was awarded at CNRS (bronze medal).  After 1986, he 
moved from CNRS to Air Liquide Company first at Paris (France) and then in 
Japan where he became the Manager of the Technological Development.

Our thoughts are with his family.

                  Jean-Marc Greneche