Charles-Victor Mauguin

Charles -Victor Mauguin ( born July 19, 1878 in Provins, France, † April 25, 1958 in Villejuif, France) was a professor of mineralogy.

The son of a baker from Provins was taught at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Based on the findings of Pierre Curie in 1905 on the symmetry of physical phenomena, he developed together with Carl Hermann a symbolic notation of crystallography. The knowledge that he is supported by Frédéric Wallerant (1858-1936), appropriated at the Sorbonne in the investigations of liquid crystals and by exploring the diffraction of X-rays by crystals, it it came to his aid.

Mauguin was also the first who examined the group of mica minerals with X-rays. After he was professor of mineralogy in Bordeaux and Nancy, he came to Wallerant 1933 as a professor at the Sorbonne, and remained so until 1948.

He is a founder of the International Union of Crystallography ( IUCr ).

• Crystallographer
• Physicist ( 20th century)
• University teachers ( Sorbonne )
• Frenchman
• Born in 1878
• Died in 1958
• Man