André Pochan

{{Short description|French physicist and mathematician (1891–1979)}}

André Pochan (5 July 1891 in Fourmies, France – 4 February 1979 in Le Cannet, France) was a French physicist and mathematician and Egyptology enthusiast. He taught at Cairo High School from 1930 to 1937. In 1934 he investigated the coloration of the Khufu and Khafre pyramids.{{cite book|last1=Davidovits|first1=Joseph|last2=Morris|first2=Margie|title=The Pyramids: An Enigma Solved|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tVYpAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 July 2012|date=1 September 1988|publisher=Dorset|isbn=978-0-88029-555-0|page=91}} Deported to Mauthausen in 1943, he survived the death camps and, as such, he was awarded the Medal of the Resistance and Commander of the Legion of Honor. His main research focused on the Egyptian pyramids, especially the Pyramid of Khufu, and he became known as a "highly independent pyramid scholar".{{cite book|last=West|first=John Anthony|title=The Traveler's Key to Ancient Egypt: A Guide to the Sacred Places of Ancient Egypt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EG0BzbCu0m4C&pg=PA117|accessdate=18 July 2012|date=1 January 1996|publisher=Quest Books|isbn=978-0-8356-0724-7|page=117}} His research was highly criticized by the Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer. In 1971 he published L 'Enigme de la Grande Pyramide (Robert Laffont, Paris).{{cite book|last=Ivimy|first=John|title=The Sphinx & the megaliths|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8AN9AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=18 July 2012|year=1975|publisher=Harper & Row|isbn=978-0-06-012152-5|page=37}}