Jean Cabannes

Jean Cabannes (born August 12, 1885 in Marseille , † October 31, 1959 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer ) was a French physicist.

Cabannes went to school in Nice and studied from 1906 at the École normal supérieure . In 1911 he received his agrégation in physics and was then preparateur at the University of Marseille (Faculté des Sciences), where he wrote his dissertation (on light scattering in the atmosphere, experimental verification of Rayleigh scattering ), and in 1921 he received his doctorate with it. During the First World War he was part of the artillery in the development of sound detection (initiated by Aimé Cotton , Pierre-Ernest Weiss ). In 1920 he became Maître de conférences at the University of Montpellier and in 1928 proposed what later became known as Raman scattering (with P. Daure, Yves Rocard ), independently of CV Raman , who explained this quantum mechanically and received the Nobel Prize for it in 1930. In 1924 he became a professor without a chair and in 1925 he was given the chair of physics. As usual in France, he had to start again in the capital Paris in 1937 as Maître de conférences at the Sorbonne at the chair of Charles Fabry . In 1938 he became a professor without a chair and in 1938 as successor to Aimé Cotton Professor of General Physics and head of the research laboratory for physics at the Sorbonne. From 1946 to 1949 he was dean (doyen).

In 1949 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences . In 1924 he received the Prix ​​Félix Robin and in 1951 the first Prix ​​des trois physiciens . The Cabannes lunar crater is named after him. He was married to the daughter of the mathematician Eugène Fabry (1856-1944, brother of Charles Fabry) and had four children, including the mathematician Henri Cabannes .

Web links

• Speech by Cotton on the admission of Cabannes to the Academie des Sciences 1949, French

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charles Fabry hit Cabannes in 1929 for the Nobel Prize, but who at de Broglie Louis went