André Guinier

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André Guinier
Born(1911-08-01)1 August 1911
Charles Mauguin
Doctoral studentsRaimond Castaing
Constantino Tsallis
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André Guinier (1 August, 1911 – 3 July, 2000) was a French physicist and crystallographer who did pioneering work in the field of

X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics. He was credited for the discovery and developments of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) into an indispensable tool for materials science and crystallography.[2][3]

Education and career

Guinier was born in

University of Paris-Sud. During this period, he moved his research laboratory there from the center of Paris and founded the Laboratory for Solid State Physics (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, LPS) with Jacques Friedel and Raimond Castaing. Guinier became its first director when the LPS was assimilated into the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[1][8][9]

Guinier was president of the International Union of Crystallography from 1969 to 1972. From 1968 to 1969, he was the founding editor of the Journal of Applied Crystallography.[10] He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1971 and won the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 1985. Guinier was elected member of the Academia Europaea in 1993.[11]

Discoveries and inventions

In the field of small-angle scattering, Guinier discovered the relationship of particle size to intensity which is called Guinier's Law.[12] He developed the Guinier camera for use in X-ray diffraction and contributed to the development of the electron microprobe by Raimond Castaing.

The

Guinier-Preston zone was named after Guinier and the British physicist George Dawson Preston, who discovered and described the phenomenon independently around 1938.[13][14]

Publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "André GUINIER (1911-2000) – SFMC". 2009-01-19. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
  2. ^ Obituary published in Acta Crystallographica
  3. ^ Ravy S. André Guinier (1911–2000): a physicist among crystallographers //Physica Scripta. – 2015. – Т. 90. – №. 3. – С. 38001-38004.
  4. ^ "Family tree of Philibert Guinier". Geneanet. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
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  9. ^ "Biographie André Guinier Universitaire, Membre de l´Institut". www.whoswho.fr. Retrieved 2024-04-21.
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  11. ^ "Academy of Europe: Guinier André". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
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