Charles Fabry

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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry
École supérieure d'optique
ThesisThéorie de la visibilité et de l'orientation des franges d'interférences (1892)
Notable studentsJean Dufay
Yves Rocard
Bernard Lyot
Yan Jici
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Anil Kumar Das
Jean Cabannes
Daniel Chalonge

Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry

Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer
.

Biography

Studies

Fabry at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910

Fabry graduated from the

École Polytechnique in Paris and received his doctorate from the University of Paris in 1892, for his work on interference fringes, which established him as an authority in the field of optics and spectroscopy. In 1904, he was appointed Professor of Physics at the University of Marseille
, where he spent 16 years.

Career

Portrait of Fabry in a 1938 copy of "Oeuvres Choisies Publiées à l'Occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique"
Portrait of Fabry in a 1938 copy of "Oeuvres Choisies Publiées à l'Occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique"

In

interferometer in 1899, now known as the Fabry–Pérot interferometer.[5][6][7] He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer
in 1913.

In 1921, Fabry was appointed Professor of General Physics at the Sorbonne and the first director of the new Institute of Optics. In 1926 he also became professor at the

École supérieure d'optique
(SupOptique).

Fabry was the President of the Société astronomique de France from 1931–1933.[8]

Table featured in "Oeuvres Choisies Publiées à l'Occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique"

Awards and honors

For his important scientific achievements he received the

National Academy of Sciences (1919)[9] and the Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (1921). In 1927 he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences. In 1929, he received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France
, the French astronomical society.

Asteroid

410619 Fabry
is named after him.

References

  1. S2CID 163939822
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  2. doi:10.1038/157362a0
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  3. doi:10.1093/mnras/106.1.42
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  4. doi:10.1119/1.18960
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  5. ^ Fabry, C; Perot, A (1899). "Theorie et applications d'une nouvelle methode de spectroscopie interferentielle". Ann. Chim. Phys. 16 (7).
  6. doi:10.1086/140557
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  7. ISBN 978-0-85274-138-2
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  8. ^ Bulletin de la Société astronomique de France, November 1937, plates X-IX
  9. ^ "Henry Draper Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2011.

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