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Charles Fabry

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French physicist

FranceScientistsLived 1867 to 1945 · aged 78
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Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry 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.

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Fabry at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910Fabry at the Fourth Conference International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research at Mount Wilson Observatory, 1910Portrait of Fabry in a 1938 copy of "Oeuvres Choisies Publiées à l'Occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique"Portrait of Fabry in a 1938 copy of "Oeuvres Choisies Publiées à l'Occasion de son Jubilé Scientifique"

Awards 8

1937Commander of the Legion of Honour
1931Foreign Member of the Royal Society
1929Prix Jules Janssen
1926Guthrie Lecture
1921Franklin Medal
1919Henry Draper Medal
1918Rumford Medal
1916Janssen Medal

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Connected to Charles 6

J. D. BernalAlso won Guthrie LectureJan Hendrik OortAlso won Janssen MedalLyman SpitzerAlso won Henry Draper MedalGeorge PorterAlso won Rumford MedalRichard SmalleyAlso won Franklin MedalMilan Rastislav ŠtefánikAlso won Prix Jules Janssen

About this person

Country
France
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1867 to 1945 · aged 78
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25 languages

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