Jean Lecomte
Jean Lecomte (August 5, 1898 - March 28, 1979) was a French physicist, researcher and professor of physics at CNRS.
Career
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In 1919, Lecomte started working in the laboratory of physical research at the Sorbonne in Paris.[1] Lecomte presented his Doctoral Thesis in 1924 on localized vibrations in molecules.[2][3] He was one of the founding members of the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS), together with French Nobel prize winning physicist Alfred Kastler (Paris) and German physicist Reinhard Mecke (Konstanz). Lecomte was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Physics Section) in 1959[4] and as president of the French Association for the Advancement of Science (L’Association française pour l’avancement des sciences) in 1968.[5] He authored several books on Infrared spectroscopy.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ Notice nécrologique sur Jean Lecomte, by A. Kastler, in Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (CRAS) 289, 1979 (online: http://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/eloges/lecomte_cr1979.pdf)
- ^ Jean Lecomte Contribution à l'étude de l'absorption des rayons infrarouges par les composés organiques, 1924 (thèse de doctorat)
- ^ Universalis, Encyclopædia. "JEAN LECOMTE". Encyclopædia Universalis (in French). Retrieved 2018-11-01.
- ^ "Members of the French Academy of Science" (PDF).
- ^ "Les présidents de l'AFAS de 1872 à nos jours". L’Association française pour l’avancement des sciences.
- ^ J. Lecomte Le spectre infrarouge, Société "Journal de physique" : Presses universitaires de France, 1928
- ^ J. Lecomte, Le Rayonnement Infrarouge, GauthierVillars, Paris, 1948
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