Jean Cabannes

Jean Cabannes ( born August 12, 1885 in Marseille, † October 31, 1959 in Saint- Cyr- sur -Mer ) was a French physicist

Cabannes went to Nice to school and studied from 1906 at the École Normale Superieure. In 1911 he received his Agrégation in physics and was then Préparateur at the University of Marseille ( Faculté des Sciences ), where he wrote his dissertation ( on light scattering in the atmosphere, experimental verification of Rayleigh scattering), and in 1921 he received his doctorate with it. In World War I he was in the artillery in the sound locating development (initiated by Aimé Cotton, Pierre Weiss ). In 1920 he was Maître de conférences at the University of Montpellier in 1928 and struck off what later became known as Raman scattering (with P. dAure, Yves Rocard ), regardless of CV Raman, the quantum mechanically explained this and in 1930 received the Nobel Prize for it. In 1924 he became a professor without chair and in 1925 he was appointed Professor of Physics. As is usual in France, he had in the capital Paris in 1937 as Maître de conférences at the Sorbonne start at the chair of Charles Fabry. In 1938 he became a professor without chair, and in 1938 as the successor of Aimé Cotton Professor of Physics and head of the research laboratory of physics at the Sorbonne. 1946 to 1949 he was Dean ( Dean ).

In 1949 he became a member of the Academie des Sciences. In 1924 he received the Prix Félix Robin and 1951 the first Prix des trois physiciens. A lunar crater is named after him. He was with the daughter of the mathematician Eugène Fabry (1856-1944, brother of Charles Fabry ) married and had four children, including the mathematician Henri Cabannes.