Eugène Darmois

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Eugène Darmois (born April 10, 1884 in Éply ; † November 4, 1958 ) was a French physicist and physical chemist.

Darmois, the brother of the mathematician Georges Darmois , went to high school in Toul and Nancy and, after a year of military service, studied physics at the Sorbonne with Edmond Bouty and Gabriel Lippmann and at the École normal supérieure with Aimé Cotton and Henri Abraham . He won the Agrégation competition in 1907 and was then a taxidermist in the ENS physics laboratory. In 1910 he received his doctorate with a thesis on polarized light and was then a lecturer (Maître de conférences) at the University of Rennes (then Faculté des Sciences). From 1911 he worked in industry (Westinghouse) for several years. He was wounded in the First World War in 1917 and then worked at the ENS in the chemical laboratory on war-related work. In 1919 he became a professor in Nancy and in 1926 he went first to Paris as Maitre de Conferences (as successor to Georges Sagnac ) and in 1937 as professor of physics as successor to Charles Fabry , which he remained until 1957.

He was president of the Société chimique de France and the Société des électriciens and for thirty years general secretary of the Société française de physique. In 1951 he was elected to the Académie des Sciences .

He dealt with spectroscopy, polarization, low temperature physics, production of heavy water, electrochemistry and electrolysis.

Fonts

  • with Geneviève Darmois: Electrochimie théorique, Masson, Paris 1960
  • Électricité, SEES, 2 volumes, Paris 1952–53 (Cours du certificat de physique générale)
  • Thermodynamique statistique, Tournier et Constans, Paris 1949 (Cours du certificat de physique supérieure)
  • Vibrations, acoustique, SEES, Paris 1948 (Cours du certificat de physique générale)
  • Thermodynamique et rayonnement, SEES, Paris 1947 (Cours du certificat de physique générale)
  • L'Etat liquide de la matiere, Ed. Albin Michel 1943
  • Electrochemistry, in Siegfried Flügge Handbook of Physics , Volume 20, 1957

literature

  • Obituary in Bull. Soc. chim. France, May 1959, pp. 673-677
personal data
SURNAME Darmois, Eugène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist and physical chemist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Éply
DATE OF DEATH 4th November 1958