Biography:Émile Verdet
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Short description: French physicist (1824–1866)
Marcel Émile Verdet (fr; 13 March 1824 – 3 June 1866) was a French physicist. He worked in magnetism and optics, editing the works of Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Verdet did much to champion the early theory of the conservation of energy in France through his editorial supervision of the Annales de chimie et de physique.[1]
The Verdet constant is named after him.[2]
Books by Emile Verdet
- Leçons d'optique physique. Tome I (G. Masson, 1872)
- Leçons d'optique physique. Tome II (G. Masson, 1872)
- Recherches sur les propriétés optiques développées dans les corps transparents par l'action du magnétisme (Mallet-Bachelier, 1854)
- Théorie mécanique de la chaleur. Tome I (G. Masson, 1878)
- Théorie mécanique de la chaleur. Tome II (G. Masson, 1878)
- Conférences de physique faites à l'Ecole Normale (Masson, 1872)
- Conférences de physique faites à l'Ecole Normale. Deuxième partie (Masson, 1872)
External links
- Émile Verdet at Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
References
- ↑ Herivel, J. W. (December 1966). "Aspects of French Theoretical Physics in the Nineteenth Century" (in en). The British Journal for the History of Science 3 (2): 109–132. doi:10.1017/S0007087400003794. ISSN 1474-001X. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-for-the-history-of-science/article/abs/aspects-of-french-theoretical-physics-in-the-nineteenth-century/E1111FC4970FA89CF98BB2E7CE8D7BA1.
- ↑ "OPG". https://opg.optica.org/oe/viewmedia.cfm?uri=oe-29-15-23315&html=true.
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