Charles Fabry
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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (June 11 1867 / Marseille, France – December 11 1945 / Paris, France) was a French physicist.
He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Perot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer.
He won the Henry Draper Medal in 1919. He was the first general director of the Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée and director of the "grande école" École supérieure d'optique (SupOptique).
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External links
- A good biography, in French, can be found at http://www-obs.cnrs-mrs.fr/tricent/astronomes/fabry.htm
- Joseph F. Mulligan, "Who were Fabry and Perot?", Am. J. Phys. 66, 797 (1998)
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