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Charles Fabry

1867 - 1945

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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (French: [fabʁi]; 11 June 1867 – 11 December 1945) was a French physicist working on optics. Together with Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Fabry has received more than 83,508 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Fabry is the 624th most popular physicist (down from 317th in 2019), the 4,068th most popular biography from France (down from 1,705th in 2019) and the 64th most popular French Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Charles Fabry ranks 624 out of 717. Before him are Wilhelm Hisinger, Julius Wess, William Higinbotham, John Polkinghorne, Alfred Landé, and Jan Burgers. After him are Ole Jacob Broch, John Hopkinson, Balthasar van der Pol, Nicholas Metropolis, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, and Frederick Seitz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1867, Charles Fabry ranks 108. Before him are Caleb Bradham, Chris Watson, Carmen de Burgos, Richard Schorr, Manuel Portela Valladares, and Ludwig Thoma. After him are Domenico Mezzadri, Vikenty Veresaev, Petr Bezruč, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Antonio Conte, and Miguel Abadía Méndez. Among people deceased in 1945, Charles Fabry ranks 256. Before him are Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Richard Bong, Albert Tyler, José María Moncada, Adolf Brand, and Jesús Bermúdez. After him are Florence Bascom, Italo Santelli, Kārlis Skalbe, Josef Gočár, Alexey Favorsky, and Janko Jesenský.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Fabry ranks 4,068 out of 6,011. Before him are Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Renaud Lavillenie (1986), Alfred Manessier (1911), Adil Rami (1985), Presnel Kimpembe (1995), and Karen Lancaume (1973). After him are Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger (1790), Paul Passy (1859), Antoine de Caunes (1953), Karin Viard (1966), Hélène Vincent (1943), and Jacques Miller (1931).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Charles Fabry ranks 64. Before him are Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Gustave Trouvé (1839), Louis-François-Clement Breguet (1804), Ferdinand Monoyer (1836), Carl August von Steinheil (1801), and Alfred Perot (1863). After him are Hubert Curien (1924) and Jacques Friedel (1921).

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