Albert Arnulf

Albert Arnulf (1898-1984) is a French physicist.

Qualified engineer of the University of optics (SupOptique) and bachelor of science in 1922, it supports in 1930 a thesis for the science doctorate prepared with the bearing IOTA on " the measurement of the radii of curvatures of the spherical surfaces employed in optique". Initially preparer with the ESO in 1922, then chief of practical works in 1925, it becomes in the Forties university lecturer, professor without pulpit then full professor of optics applied to the Faculty of Science of Paris, then Orsay (1966), delegated to the University of optics. This lesson with the ESO related mainly to practical works and the techniques of laboratory, then on optical metrology and finally on instrumental optics where it took the continuation of Georges-Albert Boutry. Within the framework of the 3rd university cycle, it exempted bearing courses on instrumental optics in the infra-red and on the optical system of the eye. It directs the research laboratories of the school of 1946 to 1968. Its research related to interferometric metrology, the homogeneity of the optical matters and the studies of the limits of resolution of the visual instruments. He was treasurer of the International commission of optics of his creation, in 1947, at 1956.

He is the writer of the article concerning instrumental optics in the Encyclopédie Universalis.

Professor emeritus at the University of Paris VI and Paris XI with his retirement, it also continued his activity as a consulting engineer with ONERA.

Price and decorations

  • 1936 : Hirn price of the Academy of Science
  • 1939: Jansen price of the astronomical Company of France
  • 1942: Price Henri de Parville of the Academy of Science
  • 1944: Price Felix Robin of the French company of physics
  • 1947: Salverte price of the Company of encouragement for national industry
  • 1951: Galitzine price of the Company of encouragement for national industry
  • 1951: Menier price of the Company of the civil engineers
  • 1958: Lacaze price of the Academy of Science
  • 1972: Price Alfred Monnier of the French Association of lighting

Academic palms

The Arnulf-Françon price of the French company of optics, rewarding a work intended for teaching for optics in higher education, was created with its memory and the memory of Maurice Françon.

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