Henri Abraham

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Henri Abraham (born July 12, 1868 in Paris ; died around December 12, 1943 in the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a French physicist .

Abraham studied from 1886 at the École normal supérieure (ENS) and at the Sorbonne. In 1889 he won the Agrégation competition in physics and in 1892 he received his doctorate from the ENS. He was a high school teacher at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand until 1900, from 1897 Chargé des conférences at the ENS and from 1900 Maître de conférences at the ENS. He headed the physics laboratory there and after the affiliation of the ENS to the University of Paris in 1904, he became the Chargé de Cours for physics there, delegated to the ENS, and from 1912 as a titular professor. During the First World War he traveled to the United States in 1917 with Ernest Rutherford and Charles Fabry to discuss the issue of anti-submarine defense . In 1937 he retired and Eugène Bloch succeeded him as director of the physics laboratory and Pierre Auger as maître de conférences.

In 1943 he was picked up by the militia in Aix-en-Provence and deported to Auschwitz, where he was probably murdered as soon as he arrived.

In 1922 he was an exchange professor in Brazil.

In his work he mainly dealt with electromagnetism .

1900 to 1912 with the general secretary of the French physical society and in 1922 its president. From 1922 to 1943 he was Secretary General of the IUPAP. He is one of the three physicists who have been awarded the Prix ​​des trois physiciens since 1951.

Fonts

  • Les quantités élémentaires d'électricité. Gauthier Villars, Paris 1905.
  • Recueil de constantes physiques. Gauthier Villars, Paris 1913.
  • Co-author: Recueil d'expériences élémentaires de physique. Travaux d'atelier, géométrie et mécanique, hydrostatique, chaleur. Gauthier Villars, Paris 1914.
  • Co-author: Recueil d'expériences élémentaires de physique. Acoustique, optique, électricité et magnétisme. Gauthier Villars, Paris 1914.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christophe Charle, Eva Telkes: Les professeurs de la Faculté des sciences de Paris. Dictionnaire biographique (1901-1939). Institut national de recherche pédagogique, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04336-0 .
  2. Johannes-Geert Hagmann: How physics made itself heard - American physicists engaged in “practical” research during the First World War . In: Physics Journal . 14, No. 11, 2015, pp. 43–46.