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CORNU was born in 1841 at Châteauneuf, and entered the great military school of Paris, the École Polytechnique, at the age of nineteen. After four years of study there he entered the Ecole des Mines, which he quitted in 1866, thus completing a brilliant career as a student. One year later, at the age of twenty-six, he was chosen as professor of physics at the École Poly technique, a post which he filled to the end of his life and adorned with the many results of his scientific researches.
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THOMPSON, S. Prof. Alfred Cornu . Nature 66, 12–13 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066012a0
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