Henri Abraham

Henri Abraham ( born July 12, 1868 in Paris, † by 12 December 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a French physicist.

In 1943 he was picked up in Aix -en- Provence by the militia and sent to Auschwitz, where he was probably murdered immediately after his arrival.

In 1922 he was an exchange professor in Brazil.

In his work he dealt mainly with electromagnetism.

1900-1912 with the Secretary General of the French Physical Society in 1922 and its president. In 1934 he was Secretary General of IUPAP. He is one of three physicists, which is awarded in honor of the Prix des trois physiciens since 1951.

Works

  • Les quantites élémentaires l'Electricité. Fascicule 1, ion, électrons, corpuscules, 1905, Gauthier Villars (Paris)
  • Les quantites élémentaires l'Electricité. Fascicule 2, ion, électrons, corpuscules, 1905, Gauthier Villars (Paris)
  • Recueil de Constantes physiques, 1913, Gauthier Villars (Paris)
  • Recueil d' expériences élémentaires de physique. Première partie. , Publié avec la collaboration de nombreux physiciens. Travaux d'atelier, géométrie et mécanique, hydrostatique, chaleur, 1914, Gauthier Villars (Paris)
  • Recueil d' expériences élémentaires de physique. Seconde partie. , Publié avec la collaboration de nombreux physiciens. Acoustique, optique, Electricité et magnétisme, 1914, Gauthier Villars (Paris)
  • Seminar notes on long focus astrometry, 1965, Mount Stromlo Observatory, Australian National University ( Canberra)
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