- Alfred Perot
Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (
November 3 1863 /Metz ,France –November 28 1925 /Paris ,France ) was a Frenchphysicist .Together with his colleague
Charles Fabry he developed theFabry-Pérot interferometer .pelling
There is some confusion about the spelling of Perot's last name. Perot himself used the spelling "Pérot" in scientific publications, but according to the French
civil registry , hisfamily name was "Perot", without accent. [cite journal| first=Françoise |last=Métivier |title=Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot |year=2006 |month=September–October | journal=Photoniques |issue= no. 25| language=French |url=http://www.sabix.org/documents/perot.pdf |format=pdf |accessdate=2007-10-02 (inset "Pérot ou Perot?" on the second page. Translation: "In the previous issue...we wrote "Pérot", after the spelling that Alfred Perot himself used to sign his articles. Several readers pointed out to us that the "official" spelling — that is, the one used on the birth certificate — does not have an accent.")]References
External links
* [http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/387/Mulligan98.pdf Joseph F. Mulligan, "Who were Fabry and Pérot?", Am. J. Phys. 66, 797 (1998)]
* [http://www-obs.cnrs-mrs.fr/tricent/astronomes/perot.htm "Alfred Perot, un expérimentateur et inventeur de talent"] A good biography, in French.
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