• DocumentCode
    1442378
  • Title

    Émile Durand, A Physicist´s Route During the 20th Century in France [Historical Corner]

  • Author

    Guiraud, Jean-Louis

  • Author_Institution
    ISAE (Inst. Super. de I´´Aeronautique et de l´´Espace), Toulouse, France
  • Volume
    51
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    221
  • Lastpage
    224
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the life and scientific career of Emile Durand. The following are discussed: education and early scientific life; arrival in Toulouse in 1949; Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Toulouse, 1953; creation of the "Institut de Calcul Numerique", 1957; and teaching. Emile Durand considered as an outstanding example of those teachers of the last century who, starting from Ecole normale d\´Instituteurs, advanced to the Academy of Sciences.
  • Keywords
    biographies; Academy of Sciences; Ecole normale d´Instituteurs; Emile Durand; France; Institut de Calcul Numerique; Toulouse; historical note; physicist; Diffraction; Educational institutions; Electron optics; Fabry-Perot interferometers; History; Laboratories; Lenses; Optical interferometry; Optical surface waves; Physics; History;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1045-9243
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAP.2009.5432105
  • Filename
    5432105