Biography:Pierre Jacquinot
Pierre Jacquinot | |
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 Pierre Jacquinot (right) and his wife in 1965. | |
| Born | January 18, 1910 |
| Died | September 22, 2002 (aged 92) |
| Known for | Jacquinot's advantage |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Interferometry |
| Institutions | Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton |
| Doctoral advisor | Aimé Cotton |
| Notable students | Janine Connes |
Pierre Jacquinot (18 January 1910 – 22 September 2002) was a French physicist.
Jacquinot was a PhD student of Aimé Cotton.[1] He was director of Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton during almost 20 years (1951–1962 and 1969–1978). From 1962 to 1969 he was appointed director general of CNRS.[2]
In the mid-1940s, Jacquinot noticed that a Michelson interferometer could be modified by removing the need of a slit to achieve a higher resolution. This result became known as Jacquinot's advantage, published by Jacquinot in 1954.[3] In Laboratoire Aimé–Cotton, he advised the work of Pierre Connes (fr) and Janine Connes who developed the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy between 1954 and 1966.[3]
In 1966 he entered the French Academy of Sciences. He became its president from 1980 to 1982.
Awards
- 1950: Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize
- 1976: Three Physicists Prize
- 1978: CNRS Gold medal
- 1962: Prix Jaffé
References
- ↑ Jacquinot, Pierre (28 May 1937). Thèse de Pierre Jacquinot Recherches sur le phénomène de Zeeman dans les champs magnétiques intenses. TEL (thèses-en-ligne) (Thesis). Retrieved 24 June 2015.
- ↑ "Entretiens avec Pierre Jacquinot". 1987. http://www.histcnrs.fr/archives-orales/jacquinot.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Joerges, Bernward; Shinn, Terry (2001). Instrumentation between science, state and industry. Sociology of the sciences. Dordrecht Boston: KLuwer academic. ISBN 978-0-7923-6736-9.
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