Charles-Victor Mauguin

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Charles-Victor Mauguin (born July 19, 1878 in Provins , France , † April 25, 1958 in Villejuif , France) was a French physicist and professor of mineralogy .

Life

The son of a baker from Provins was educated at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Based on the findings of Pierre Curie from 1905 about the symmetry of physical phenomena, he and Carl Hermann developed a symbolic notation for crystallography . The knowledge that he acquired with the help of Frédéric Wallerant (1858–1936) at the Sorbonne while studying liquid crystals and researching the diffraction of X-rays through crystals came to his aid.

Mauguin was also the first to examine the group of mica minerals with X-rays . After he was professor of mineralogy in Bordeaux and Nancy , he came to Wallerant in 1933 as a professor at the Sorbonne and remained so until 1948.

He is one of the founders of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). From 1937 he was a member of the Académie des Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Directory of members since 1666: Letter M. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 20, 2020 (French).