Edmond Bouty

Edmond Bouty (born January 12, 1846 in Nant , † November 5, 1922 in Paris ) was a French physicist who mainly dealt with electricity and magnetism.

career

Bouty studied physics from 1866 to 1869 at the École normal supérieure of Paris (ENS) and at the Sorbonne , among others with Paul Desains and Jules Jamin . In 1868 he received his licentiate in physics and mathematics and taught at grammar schools in Montauban (1871 - in the same year he took part in the Agrégation competition), in Reims (1871–1875), at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris (1876–1883) and at the Lycée Fénelon in Paris (1883–1884). At the same time he did research from 1873 at the Laboratory for Physics of the Sorbonne with Jules Jamin and received his doctorate in 1875. In 1883 he became Maître de conférences at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris (as successor to Gabriel Lippmann ) and deputy director of the physics laboratory and in 1884 Maître de conférences for the third year of study at the ENS. In 1885, he succeeded Paul Desains as professor of physics at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris.

On November 23, 1908 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences , whose Prix Lacaze he received in 1895. He was president of the Société française de physique .

He reissued Jules Jamin's physics lectures at the École polytechnique in a revised form (4th edition, Gauthier-Villars, 4 volumes, 1886-1891).

Fonts

• La vérité scientifique-sa poursuite , Flammarion 1908