Pierre Chappuis (physicist)

Grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery , Basel

Pierre Chappuis (born October 9, 1855 in Bremblens , † February 15, 1916 in Basel ) was a Swiss physicist .

His parents were the philosopher and farmer Jean Louis and Louise Charlotte Henriette, b. Roux.

Pierre Chappuis studied first in Basel and from 1877 in Leipzig, where he received his PhD in 1879 with the work Sur la condensation des gaz à la surface du verre (On the compression of gases on glass surfaces). phil. PhD. In 1880 he worked at the Basel Institute for Physics. From 1882 to 1902 he was an attaché at the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sèvres near Paris. In 1889 he married Esther Julie Sarasin, the daughter of the factory owner Rudolf Sarasin (1831–1905). From 1902 he conducted research in his own laboratory in Basel. From 1904 to 1906 he was President of the National Research Society in Basel.

As an employee at the Federal Office for Weights and Measures , he worked on a. the basis for the international treaties on the metric system of measurements. From 1910 he was Vice President of the Federal Commission for Measuring in Bern.

literature

Peter Diehl: Chappuis, Pierre. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

↑ PIERRE CHAPPUIS. - About the compression of gases on glass surfaces (Sur la condensation des gaz à la surface du verre) ; Annals of Physics and Chemistry, nouvelle série, t. VIII, p. 1 et 671, 1880, pp. 142-143, doi : 10.1051 / jphystap: 018800090014200 .

personal data
SURNAME	Chappuis, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 9, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremblens
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1916
Place of death	Basel

[1] PIERRE CHAPPUIS. - About the compression of gases on glass surfaces (Sur la condensation des gaz à la surface du verre) ; Annals of Physics and Chemistry, nouvelle série, t. VIII, p. 1 et 671, 1880, pp. 142-143, doi : 10.1051 / jphystap: 018800090014200 .