Émile Merlin
Émile Alphonse Louis Merlin (born October 12, 1875 in Mons ; † July 29, 1938 , Le Bourg-d'Oisans ) was a Belgian mathematician and astronomer.
Life
Merlin attended the Royal Athenaeum in Brussels and studied in Liège and Ghent. In 1900 he received his doctorate in mathematics. This was followed by a stay abroad from 1901 to 1903 in Paris at the Sorbonne, at the Collège de France and in Göttingen. In 1904 he became an assistant at the observatory in Uccle . In 1909 he was promoted to adjoint astronomer. From 1912 he gave lectures on astronomy and geodesy in Ghent and in 1919 he became a full professor and director of the geographic station.
He was an alpinist and died in a mountain accident in the French Alps in Le Bourg d'Oisans.
Merlin worked on the French edition of the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences .
For his work on celestial mechanics, he received the A. de Potter Prize of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences. He was President of the Belgian Mathematical Society , honorary member of the Astronomical Society of Mexico and a member of the Mathematics and Astronomy Commission of the Fonds national de la recherche scientifique in Belgium. He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto in 1924 (Sur les lignes asymptotiques en géométrie infinitésimale) and in Oslo in 1936 (Sur certains mouvements des fluides parfaits).
literature
- Léon van Aerschodt, Obituary in Ciel et Terre, Volume 54, 1938, 295, online
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Merlin, Émile |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Merlin, Émile Alphonse Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian mathematician and astronomer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1875 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mons |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1938 |
| Place of death | Le Bourg-d'Oisans |