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Charles Fabry, born Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry on 11 June 1867 in Marseille, was a French physicist and astronomer. He was educated at the École polytechnique and was employed by the University of Paris, where his doctoral students included Yves Rocard, Jean Cabannes and Jean Dufay. His siblings were Eugène Fabry and Louis Fabry.
Fabry was a member of the Royal Society, the French Academy of Sciences, the Astronomical Society of France and the International Commission on Illumination, and is recognised in the Royal Society collection; he also held the position of president. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics and received the Rumford Medal, the Prix Jules Janssen, the Janssen Medal and the Franklin Medal. He died on 11 December 1945 in Paris.
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1867-06-11 ) 11 June 1867, Marseille , France
- Died
- 11 December 1945 (1945-12-11) (aged 78), Paris , France
- Education
- École Polytechnique , University of Paris
- Known for
- Fabry–Pérot interferometer , Ozone layer
- Relatives
- Louis Fabry (brother), Eugène Fabry (brother)
- Awards
- Janssen Medal (1916), Rumford Medal (1918), Henry Draper Medal (1919), Franklin Medal (1921), Prix Jules Janssen (1929), FRS (1931)
- Institutions
- Sorbonne , University of Marseille , École supérieure d'optique
- Thesis
- Théorie de la visibilité et de l'orientation des franges d'interférences (1892)
- Notable students
- Jean Dufay , Yves Rocard , Bernard Lyot , Yan Jici , Sisir Kumar Mitra , Anil Kumar Das , Jean Cabannes , Daniel Chalonge , Mahmoud Hessabi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Charles
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Marseille
- Place of death
- Paris
- Sibling
- Louis Fabry
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Position held
- president
- Employer
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Image
- Charles Fabry.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1867-06-11
- date of death
- 1945-12-11
- birth name
- Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry
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- Charles Fabry
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- name in native language
- Charles Fabry
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Encyclopedic overview
Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry ForMemRS ( French: [maʁi pɔl oɡyst ʃaʁl fabʁi]; 11 June 1867 – 11 December 1945) was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer.
Biography
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