Jean Lecomte

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Jean Lecomte (August 5, 1898 - March 28, 1979) was a French physicist, researcher and professor of physics at CNRS.

Career

In 1919, Lecomte started working in the laboratory of physical research at the Sorbonne in Paris.Notice nécrologique sur Jean Lecomte, by A. Kastler, in Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences (CRAS) 289, 1979 [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/eloges/lecomte_cr1979.pdf (online: http://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/eloges/lecomte_cr1979.pdf]) Lecomte presented his Doctoral Thesis in 1924 on localized vibrations in molecules.Jean Lecomte Contribution à l'étude de l'absorption des rayons infrarouges par les composés organiques, 1924 (thèse de doctorat){{Cite web|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/jean-lecomte/|title=JEAN LECOMTE|last=Universalis|first=Encyclopædia|website=Encyclopædia Universalis|language=fr|access-date=2018-11-01}} He was one of the founding members of the European Congress on Molecular Spectroscopy (EUCMOS), together with French Nobel prize winning physicist Alfred Kastler (Paris) and German physicist Reinhard Mecke (Konstanz). Lecomte was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Physics Section) in 1959{{Cite web|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/academie/membre/memL.pdf|title=Members of the French Academy of Science}} and as president of the French Association for the Advancement of Science (L’Association française pour l’avancement des sciences) in 1968.{{Cite web|url=http://www.afas.fr/liste-des-presidents-de-lafas/|title=Les présidents de l'AFAS de 1872 à nos jours|website=L’Association française pour l’avancement des sciences}} He authored several books on Infrared spectroscopy.J. Lecomte Le spectre infrarouge, Société "Journal de physique" : Presses universitaires de France, 1928J. Lecomte, Le Rayonnement Infrarouge, GauthierVillars, Paris, 1948

References

Category:1898 births

Category:1978 deaths

Category:French physicists

Category:Spectroscopists