Pol. Swings

Polidore Ferdinand Felix Swings known as pol. Swings (born the September 24th 1906 with Ransart, close to Charleroi, dead the October 28th 1983 with Esneux, close to Liege) is a astrophysicist and Belgian spectroscopist of world famous, chairs International Astronomical Union of 1964 1967. After studies with the University of Liege where it is promoted doctor of physical sciences and mathematics in 1927, then special doctor in physical sciences in 1931, pol. Swings starts a brilliant academic career in this institution. Its work primarily concerns the Astrophysique, the mathematical astronomy, the Spectroscopie, the spectroscopy applied to industry, the Optique and then, as from the years 1960, the space Physique. On the whole, it published approximately 350 pounds, articles of research and various notes in these fields.

Biography

Resulting from a modest family of the Hainaut, its sharp intelligence was noticed as of the elementary school, and his/her parents made heavy sacrifices to send it in 1917 to the Athenaeum of Charleroi. It accepted every year of the outstanding commendation awards and it is the price obtained at the end of second, namely the Popular Astronomie of Camille Flammarion, which made it decide its future career. It entered to the Université of Liege in 1923 and it was promoted there doctor of physical sciences and mathematics in 1927, after having supported a thesis entitled “the tests of correction of the law of Newton and the orbits with moving perihelion”, a subject of great topicality at the time, whose promoter was Marcel Dehalu.

As principal function it occupied the ordinary post of professor at the university of Liege until its retirement in 1976, but he was also professor at the university of Chicago (1939 - 1943), in California Institute off Technology (1951) and at the University of California to Berkeley (in 1952 and 1967), like professor of exchange in Poland, in France, Norway, Italy, with the Netherlands, e.a.

Scientific work

Scientific distinctions

  • Honorary doctor of the University of Aix-Marseilles, 1958 and of the University of Bordeaux, 1963

  • Price Francqui, 1947
  • decennial Price of Physical sciences, 1949 - 58
  • Price of the Foundation Governor Emile Cornez, 1965
  • Price of Alumni, 1947
  • Price of Association “Friends of the University of Liege”, 1932
  • Price of Potter (1931 - 34) of the Royal Academy of Belgium
  • Price Mailly (1932 - 36) royal Academy of Belgium

Honorary distinctions

  • Commander about Léopold

  • Large Officer of the Crown
  • Officer of the Legion of Honor

See also…

Articles “In memoriam”

  • CH. Fehrenbach (1985). life and the work of pol. Swings , Reports of the Academy of Science (Paris), general Series, volume II , 657-662.

  • R.H. Garstang (1986). pol. Swings , Quarterly Newspaper off the Royal Astronomical Society, 27 , 305-308.
  • P. Ledoux (1983). Praise of pol. Swings , Bulletin of the Class of Sciences, royal Academy of Belgium, 69 , 682-687.
  • P. Ledoux (1984). In Memoriam: Pol. Swings (1906-1983) , Sky and Ground, 100 , 135-138.

Some works

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