Maurice Françon
Maurice Françon (born June 15, 1913 in Paris , † August 1996 ) was a French physicist and specialist in optics.
His father came from Lyon , was related to Édouard Herriot , was a chemical engineer in Gabriel Lippmann's laboratory at the Sorbonne and later founded a company that produced cars by hand before the advent of assembly line production. After receiving his physics license from the Sorbonne, Françon studied from 1937 at the École supérieure d'optique (SupOptique) with a degree in engineering in 1938. During the Second World War he was briefly a soldier and then in the laboratory of SupOptique in Saint-Cyr-sur -Mer and after the liberation back in Paris. At that time, under the direction of Albert Arnulf (1898–1984), he was particularly concerned with physiological optics. In 1945 he received his doctorate with Pierre Fleury (1894-1976) at the Sorbonne with a thesis on the sense of sight in the presence of spherical aberrations (Vision dans un instrument entaché d'aberration spherique) . He then taught at SupOptique , became a professor without a chair at the Sorbonne in 1954 and professor in 1959. When part of the SupOptique moved to Orsay in 1967 , he founded his own laboratory in Paris in collaboration with the University of Paris VI, which eventually merged into the University's Institute for Solid State Physics.
He dealt in particular with microscopy ( phase contrast microscopy , polarization microscope , etc.). He worked a lot with biologists, for example with the director of the Pasteur Institute, who was his friend .
In 1962 he received the Prix Félix Robin and in 1981 the Mees Medal . He received the Grand Prix des techniques of the city of Paris.
Fonts
- Le contraste de phase en optique et en microscopie, Paris 1950
- with André Maréchal : Diffraction, structure des images, influence des aberrations, 1960
- with André Maréchal: Diffraction, structure des images, influence de la cohérence de la lumière, Paris: Masson 1970
- Progress in Microscopy, Pergamon Press 1961
- Diffraction; cohérence en optique, Gauthier-Villars 1964
- English translation: Diffraction, coherence in optics, Pergamon Press 1966
- with S. Slansky: Cohérence en optique, Paris, CNRS 1965
- Interférences, diffraction et polarization, in Siegfried Flügge Handbuch der Physik , Volume 24, 1956
- Modern applications of physical optics, Interscience 1963
- with others: Expériences d'optique physique, Gordon and Breach 1969 (English translation: Experiments in Physical Optics, Gordon and Breach 1970)
- Optical interferometry, Academic Press 1966
- Holography, Academic Press 1974 (French original 1969)
- with S. Mallick: Polarization interferometers: applications in microscopy and macroscopy, Wiley / Interscience 1971
- Laser speckle and applications in optics, Academic Press 1979
- Optical image formation and processing, Academic Press 1979
- Optique: formation et traitement des images, Paris: Masson 1972
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Françon, Maurice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1996 |