Adolphe Ganot

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Adolphe Ganot (* 1804 in Rochefort , † 1887 in Paris ) was a French physicist .

Adolphe Ganot was best known as the author of the two works Traité élémentaire de physique expérimentale et appliquée and Cours de Physique purement expérimentale , which were widely used as textbooks on physics in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, both in and outside France.

The first edition appeared in 1851, the 18th edition in 1882. Garnot himself was the editor of his works until 1882, after which he sold his rights to Hachette, who published them until 1931. They have been translated into numerous languages, particularly English, German, Spanish, Dutch and Russian. Famous physicists such as Albert A. Michelson , Robert Andrews Millikan and Emilio Gino Segrè , as well as the aviation pioneer Arthur Constantin Krebs have studied the works of Ganot.

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  1. ↑ See e.g. B. Leonard Mlodinow : The window to the universe. A little history of geometry (Original: Euclid's Window ). Campus Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-593-36931-1 , p. 171 (Part 4: The story of Einstein )

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SURNAME Ganot, Adolphe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1804
PLACE OF BIRTH Rochefort
DATE OF DEATH 1887
Place of death Paris