1946 Laboratory of Electrostatic and Metal Physic (LEPM): first CNRS laboratory created outside of Paris, headed by Louis Néel
1962 Creation of the Center for Research on Very Low Temperatures (CRTBT)
1970 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Louis Néel
1971 Groups of phase transitions join and become later the laboratory for the study of electronic properties of the solid (LEPES)
X-ray laboratory, later becomes the crystallography laboratory (LdC)
Magnetism laboratory, later named Louis Néel Laboratory (LLN)
2000 Death of Louis Néel
2007 Institut Néel founded, based on these 4 laboratories, CRTBT, LLN, LEPES and LdC, and other teams issued from two other Grenoble physics laboratories
