Éleuthère Mascart
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Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (February 20, 1837 – August 24, 1908) was a noted French physicist, a researcher in optics and electricity.
Mascart was born in Quarouble, Nord. He attended the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm). He became a Professor at the Collège de France.
He won the Bordin Prize of the Académie française in 1866 and the Grand prix of the Académie des sciences in 1874.
He was elected Perpetual Member and Secretary of the Académie des Sciences and Foreign Member of the British Royal Society. Mascart founded Supélec in 1894.
He died in Paris at the age of 71. His son-in-law Marcel Brillouin and his grandson Léon Brillouin were also noted scientists.
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