Charles Fabry
Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (born June 11, 1867 in Marseille , † December 11, 1945 in Paris ) was a French physicist.
Life
His most important invention, which he made in 1897 together with his long-term research partner Alfred Pérot , is the Fabry-Pérot interferometer . Charles Fabry and Henri Buisson are considered to be the discoverers of the ozone layer , as they were able to detect ozone in higher atmospheric layers for the first time in 1913 using UV spectroscopic measurements .
He has also proposed to bring a lens into the beam path for highly sensitive photometers that images a point on an object over a large area on a detector. Such a lens is therefore also called a Fabry lens .
During the First World War , he traveled to the United States in 1917 with Henri Abraham and Ernest Rutherford to discuss the issue of anti-submarine defense .
In 1918 he was awarded the Rumford Medal by the Royal Society . In 1929 he received the Jules Janssen Prize . From 1927 he was a member of the Académie des sciences . In 1970 a moon crater was named after him.
literature
- Joseph F. Mulligan : Who were Fabry and Perot? In: Am. J. Phys. tape 66 , p. 797 date = 1998 , doi : 10.1119 / 1.18960 ( scitation.org [PDF; accessed January 23, 2018]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Darling: Fabry lens , Encyclopedia of Science, accessed July 21, 2015
- ^ Fabry-Linse , Wikibook Digital Imaging Methods , accessed on July 21, 2015
- ↑ Johannes-Geert Hagmann: How physics made itself heard - American physicists engaged in "practical" research during the First World War . Physik Journal 14 (2015) No. 11, pp. 43–46.
- ↑ Charles Fabry in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS
Web links
- Publications by C. Fabry in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biography. In: cnrs.fr. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on January 23, 2018 (French).
- FJM Stratton: Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 106 (1946), p. 42.43 (obituary, English)
- Entry on Fabry, Marie Paul Auguste Charles (1867-1945) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabry, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fabry, Maurice Paul Auguste Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1867 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1945 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |