Charles Fabry

Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry
Born(1867-06-11)11 June 1867
Marseille, France
Died11 December 1945(1945-12-11) (aged 78)
Paris, France
EducationÉcole Polytechnique
University of Paris
Known forFabry–Pérot interferometer
Ozone layer
AwardsJanssen Medal (1916)
Rumford Medal (1918)
Henry Draper Medal (1919)
Franklin Medal (1921)
Prix Jules Janssen (1929)
FRS (1931)
Scientific career
InstitutionsSorbonne
University of Marseille
École supérieure d'optique
ThesisThéorie de la visibilité et de l'orientation des franges d'interférences (1892)
Notable studentsJean Dufay
Yves Rocard
Bernard Lyot
Yan Jici
Sisir Kumar Mitra
Anil Kumar Das
Jean Cabannes
Daniel Chalonge
Mahmoud Hessabi

Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry ForMemRS[1][2] (French: [fabʁi]; 11 June 1867 – 11 December 1945) was a French physicist working on optics.[3][4] Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer.

  1. ^ Broglie (1947). "Charles Fabry. 1867-1945". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 5 (15): 445–450. Bibcode:1947LAstr..61..244C. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1947.0010. S2CID 163939822.
  2. ^ Stratton, F. J. M. (1946). "Prof. Charles Fabry, For.Mem.R.S". Nature. 157 (3986): 362. Bibcode:1946Natur.157..362S. doi:10.1038/157362a0.
  3. ^ "Obituary Notices :- Fabry, Marie Paul Auguste Charles". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 106: 42. 1946. Bibcode:1946MNRAS.106...42.. doi:10.1093/mnras/106.1.42.
  4. ^ Mulligan, J. F. (1998). "Who were Fabry and Pérot?". American Journal of Physics. 66 (9): 797–802. Bibcode:1998AmJPh..66..797M. doi:10.1119/1.18960.

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