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Jules Jamin
Jules Célestin Jamin was a French physicist. He was professor of physics at École polytechnique from 1852 to 1881 and received the Rumford Medal in 1858 for his work on light. He improved David Brewster's inclined interference plates with the development of the Jamin interferometer.
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Born 30 May 1818 · Died 12 February 1886 · Q654482
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2018· 1 entry
Published “Patient-derived organoids model treatment response of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers” in Science — cited 1,912 times.
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2012· 1 entry
Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,807 times.
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1886· 2 entries
Died 1886-02-12.
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Handed off the title of Director of the Physical Research Laboratory to Gabriel Lippmann
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1882· 2 entries
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1882–1882).
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With arrival of a new generation of physicists who came to do research for their doctorates, such as Gabriel Lippmann, Henri Pellat and Anatole Leduc, he replaced Henri Milne Edwards as Dean of the Faculty with Edmond Bo
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1873· 1 entry
Jamin invented a magnet with a layered design that allowed it to carry twenty-two times its own weight
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1871· 1 entry
Presented Zénobe Gramme's invention of the electrical engine to the French Academy of Sciences
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1868· 1 entry
Joined the French Academy of Sciences and in the same year he created and headed the Physical Research Laboratory funded by the École pratique des hautes études of which he was also the principal of the studies divisi
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1860· 1 entry
Jamin observed that when a cylindrical capillary tube was filled with a series ("chain") of alternating bubbles and water droplets, the chain remained immobile despite an increase or decrease of pressure at one end of th
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1858· 2 entries
Won Rumford Medal (1858).
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Was awarded the Rumford Medal, from the Royal Society, for his work on light and in 1863 he became a professor at the Faculty of Paris, succeeding César Despretz as the associate chair of experimental physics
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1856· 1 entry
Jules Jamin began working on, and completed his well known instrument, the Jamin interferometer
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1852· 1 entry
Was appointed professor of physics at the École Polytechnique, a position he held until March 1881, when Alfred Potier succeeded him
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1851· 2 entries
Theresa Josephine Eudoxia Lebrun (1832-1880), with whom he had a daughter, Lucie who was the wife of the physicist Henri Becquerel, and a son, a painter, Paul Jamin
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He married at Reims in 1851, Theresa Josephine Eudoxia Lebrun (1832-1880), with whom he had a daughter, Lucie who was the wife of the physicist Henri Becquerel, and a son, a painter, Paul Jamin.
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1847· 1 entry
Received a doctorate in physics with his thesis on light reflection on metallic surfaces
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1844· 1 entry
Joined the College Louis-le-Grand as a teacher
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1841· 1 entry
Graduated first in the competition of comprehensive physical sciences
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1838· 1 entry
Won the science competition award with honors, and in October of the same year he was accepted on first selection to enter École normale supérieure where he obtained a degree in physical sciences, mathematics and natu
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1818· 1 entry
Born 1818-05-30.
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