Nature: Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l’Institut d’Optique (LCFIO)
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Charles Fabry
Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer.
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science · French physicist (1867–1945) · physicist · astronomer · also Charles Fabry, Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry, Fabry
Born 11 June 1867 · Died 11 December 1945 · Q319289
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2023· 1 entry
Scientific American: Stories by Charles Fabry
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1945· 2 entries
Died 1945-12-11.
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“My whole existence has been devoted to science and to teaching, and these two intense passions have brought me very great joy.”
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1937· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1937).
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Co-founded the Société de Recherches et Études en Optique et Sciences Connexes (REOSC, now part of the Safran Group) with Henri Chrétien, Georges Guadet, and André Bayle
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1935· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (1935–1937).
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1933· 1 entry
The Optical Society elected him an Honorary Member
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1931· 2 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1931).
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Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society
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1929· 2 entries
Awarded Prix Jules Janssen (1929).
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Received the Prix Jules Janssen, the highest award of the Société astronomique de France, the French astronomical society
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1927· 2 entries
Was appointed professor at the École Polytechnique, following the death of Alfred Perot, and was elected to the French Academy of Sciences, succeeding Daniel Berthelot (Charles Fabry received 51 votes; Paul Langevin,
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Was elected to the French Academy of Sciences
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1926· 1 entry
Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1926).
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1921· 2 entries
Won Franklin Medal (1921).
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When he left Marseille and returned to Paris as chair of physics at the Faculty of Science, University of Paris, succeeding Edmond Bouty
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1919· 1 entry
Won Henry Draper Medal (1919).
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1918· 1 entry
Won Rumford Medal (1918).
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1916· 2 entries
Won Janssen Medal (1916).
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By Armand de Gramont and supported by Paul Painlevé
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1913· 1 entry
To demonstrate the existence of the ozone layer, previously only hypothesized, and to measure its distribution in the atmosphere
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1894· 1 entry
Was appointed maître de conférences at the Faculté des Sciences de l'Université de Marseille for the P
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1892· 2 entries
Defended his thesis at the Faculté des Sciences de Paris, titled Theory of the Visibility and Orientation of Interference Fringes
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Studied at Science Faculty of Paris, doctorate in France (1892).
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1889· 2 entries
Behind Henri Abraham (2nd) and Bernard Brunhes (1st)
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Nevers in 1890, Bordeaux in 1892, the Lycée Thiers in Marseille in January 1893, and finally in Paris in October of the same year
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1888· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1888).
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1885· 1 entry
Ranked 17th, and graduated in 1887, ranked 23rd, but chose to resign
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1867· 1 entry
Born 1867-06-11.
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1862· 1 entry
Also a polytechnician with degrees in mathematics and physics, was an astronomer at the Paris Observatory (1884–1887), in Nice (1887–1890), and then in Marseille until his retirement in 1924
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1856· 1 entry
Was a polytechnician and Doctor of Mathematical Sciences, a tobacco engineer, an associate professor at the lycées of Tarbes, Carcassonne, and Tours, a lecturer at the Faculties of Sciences in Rennes and Nancy, a profess
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1855· 1 entry
Earned a doctorate in law and became a lawyer in Marseille before joining the judiciary
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