Jules Celestin Jamin
Jules Célestin Jamin (born May 30, 1818 in Termes , Ardennes , † February 12, 1886 in Paris ) was a French physicist and dealt mainly with optics , electricity and magnetism . The Jamin interferometer is named after him.
Jamin went to school in Reims and in 1838 was first in the competition to enter the École normal supérieure (ENS), where he studied and obtained his licentiate. In 1841 he was first in the competition for the agrégation in physics. He was then a high school teacher in Caen , at the Lycée Condorcet (then Collège Bourbon) in Paris and from 1844 at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand . In 1847 he received his doctorate on light reflection on metal surfaces ( Mémoire sur la réflexion métallique. Thèses de physique et de chimie, présentées à la Faculté des sciences de Paris par ... Bachelier, Paris 1847). From 1852 to 1881 he was professor of physics at the École polytechnique and from 1863 professor of experimental physics at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris. In 1868 he became head of the physics laboratory he had founded at the École pratique des hautes études.
In 1858 he received the Rumford Medal. In 1868 he became a member of the Académie des sciences , was its president in 1882 and its permanent secretary (Secrétaire perpétuel) in 1884. In 1883 he became a foreign member of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and in 1884 a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg .
He dealt with optics (including elliptical polarization of reflected light, invention of the Jamin interferometer ) and among other things with electricity, magnetism, hygrometry , capillarity . He published his lectures in physics at the École Polytechnique in three volumes from 1858 to 1866.
Jamin had been married since 1851. His daughter was the wife of Henri Becquerel , his son the painter Paul Jamin (1853-1903).
His name is immortalized on the Eiffel Tower, see: The 72 names on the Eiffel Tower .
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| SURNAME | Jamin, Jules Celestin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1818 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Termes |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1886 |
| Place of death | Paris |