Lorraine Paul

Lorraine Paul (Montreal, 1916 - June 29th, 2006) Physicist and Professor Québécois.

He obtained a Doctorat in Physique of the Université McGill, with Montreal and became then post-doctoral researcher at the university of Cornell. He was named full professor with the Faculty of Science of the Université of Montreal in 1956. In 1957, he became director of départment of physics of the Université of Montreal (until 1967), period during which he founded the nuclear physics laboratory and designed the first Particle accelerator manufactured in a French-speaking university of the Quebec.

He was teaching enthusiastic, fond of delicacies of physical paradoxes (apparent). He took his retirement in 1982, obtaining the éméritat Université of Montreal. He united in Department off Earth and Planetary Sciences of the Université McGill as “Research Associate”, where he was active until 2005, with more than 22 scientific publications during this period.

He was the author of one of the most important books of teaching of the physics, always used in several university courses of physics in North America: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves , with, and is regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern Physique with the French-speaking Quebec.

Distinctions

1967 - Member of the royal Company of Canada
1994 - Officer of the National order of Quebec

Works of Lorraine Paul

and Lorraine, P. " Introduction to electromagnetic fields and waves" , W.H. Freeman, 1962.
Lorraine, P. and " Electromagnetic Fields and Waves", 2nd ED., W.H. Freeman, 1970 (ISBN 0716718235).
Lorraine, P., Lorraine, F. and Swell, S. " Dynamics magneto-Fluid: Fundamentals and Studies" Box; , New York: Springer-Verlag, 2006 (ISBN 0387335420).

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