Andre Broca
Elie André Broca (1863 - 1925) is a French physicist and doctor.
André Broca is the son of the famous neurosurgeon Paul Broca and the brother of the surgeon Auguste Broca. Entered to the Polytechnic school in 1883, it left there in 1885 as second lieutenant artillery. It leaves the army later three years and becomes preparer at the physics laboratory of the medical college of Paris. It starts medical studies, is received doctor of medicine in 1893 and becomes aggregate science-physics close the medical college of the university of Paris in 1898. It is named repeater at the Polytechnic school in 1902. He works with the engineer-optician Philibert Pellin, leading to the invention of the prism Roble-Broca. During the Great War, it is mobilized as artillery officer. He works on the dirigables, carries out the " grasshopper of Imphy" , the apparatus of the commander Walser for listenings underwater It produces was attached in 1917 to the Management of the inventions in the marine section. It succeeds professor Weiss in the pulpit of medical physics in 1920 and directs the laboratory of physiotherapy of the Saint-Louis hospital. He is elected member of the Académie of medicine in 1921. He was also physiological professor of optics to the University of optics.
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