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MARIE PAUL AUGUSTE CHARLES FABRY was born at Marseilles on June 11, 1867, into a family of scientific outlook. His grandfather had been a pupil of Ampère, and two elder brothers were correspondants of the Academy of Sciences, Eugène in geometry, Louis in astronomy. A brilliant career at the Ècole Polytechnique led to a doctorate in physical sciences in 1892 ; his thesis showed the line which he was to develop so successfully, its title being “Thèorie de la visibilitè et de l'orientation des franges d'interfèrence”. In 1894, he returned to Marseilles to lecture on physics under Macè de Lèpinay, whom he succeeded as professor ten years later. At Marseilles he had as coUeague successively Perot and Buisson, with both of whom he collaborated in a number of important papers on interferometry and spectroscopy. Although his researches were mainly in the field of optics, locally he was best known as a most successful teacher of electrotechnics: he gave a weekly lecture on Wednesday evenings to an overflowing audience of students, engineers and workpeople.
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STRATTON, F. Prof. Charles Fabry, For.Mem.R.S. Nature 157, 362 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157362a0
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