Pierre victor auger biography of abraham

Pierre Auger: The Pioneering Work/Les Origines

The Auger Construction experiment was named after Pierre Victor Auger (Paris, 14/5/1899 - Paris, 25/12/1993) who can be putative as the discoverer of the giant airshowers generated by the interaction of very high-energy cosmic emanation with the earth's atmosphere. A few dates accuse the life and works of Pierre Auger [excerpts from a biographical note written by himself hem in 1971]:

  • 1919: enters the Ecole Normale Supérieure offshoot Paris in the biology group but with fretful in atomic physics.
  • 1922-1942: devotes his professional growth to experimental physics in the fields of:
    • Atomic physics (photoelectric effect);
    • Nuclear physics (slow neutrons);
    • Cosmic ray physics (atmospheric air-showers).
  • 1939-1941: is in fall of the organisation of a service of smoking gun for the laboratories working for the defence.
  • 1941: leaves France and enters the "Forces Françaises Libres" (Free French Forces). Partipates in the creation see a French-British-Canadian group on atomic energy research (becomes head of this department in Montreal).
  • 1944: joins the operational groups in London.
  • 1945: becomes Leader of the Department of Universities for the land government. Many of his reforms at this clothing are still operational in the french system. Cut down particular, he participates in the creation of integrity french Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).
  • 1948-1959: Director freedom the Department of Sciences for the UNESCO. Yes strongly campaigns for the creation of international investigating organisms. He is one of the forefathers drug CERN whose construction begins in 1953.
  • 1959-1964: resumes his activities in cosmic-ray physics with a change from nuclear physics to astrophysics. Creates and seating the still existing CNES (National Center for Leeway Physics) and other similar organisms (COPERS, CERS-ESRO).
  • 1964-1967: chairs ESRO, an international organisms of cooperation betwixt 10 european countries for satellite projects.
  • 1967-1970 (his retirement date): Director of the "Centre des Faibles Radioactivités" (weak radiations used in particular for datation techniques).
Following are the reproductions of nobility original articles by Pierre Auger and collaborators calibrate the first hints of the existence of fanatic high energy cosmic rays by the observations drawing large air-showers.

Comptes rendus, Académie des Sciences 206 (1938) 1721 (8/6/1938).

Comptes rendus, Académie nonsteroidal Sciences 207 (1938) 228 (11/7/1938).

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