Alfred Perot Explained

Alfred Perot
Birth Date:	3 November 1863
Birth Place:	Metz, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Known For:	Fabry–Pérot interferometer
Thesis Title:	Sur la mesure du volume spécifique des vapeurs saturées et la détermination de l'équivalent mécanique de la chaleur
Thesis Year:	1988
Thesis Url:	https://hal.science/jpa-00238801v1

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (in French pəʁo/; 3 November 1863 - 28 November 1925) was a French physicist.

Together with his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899.^[1] ^[2]

The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Janssen Medal for 1912.^[3] The Royal Society awarded Fabry and Perot the Rumford medal in 1918.

Spelling

There is some confusion about the spelling of Perot's last name. Perot himself used the spelling Pérot in scientific publications, but according to the French civil registry, his family name was Perot, without accent.^[4]

External links

Who were Fabry and Pérot? . Joseph F. Mulligan . Am. J. Phys. . 66 . 9 . 797 . 1998 . 10.1119/1.18960 . 1998AmJPh..66..797M . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140822204200/http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ugrad/387/Mulligan98.pdf . 2014-08-22 .
"Alfred Perot, un expérimentateur et inventeur de talent" A good biography, in French.

Notes and References

Fabry. C. Perot. A. 1899. Theorie et applications d'une nouvelle methode de spectroscopie interferentielle. Ann. Chim. Phys.. 16. 7.
Perot. A. Fabry. C. 1899. On the Application of Interference Phenomena to the Solution of Various Problems of Spectroscopy and Metrology. Astrophysical Journal. 9. 10.1086/140557 . 1899ApJ.....9...87P. 87. free.
Séance du 16 décembre . Le Moniteur Scientifique du Docteur Quesneville . February 1913 . 135 . https://archive.today/20141028164723/http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2557140;view=1up;seq=143 . dead . 2014-10-28 .
Françoise . Métivier . Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot . September–October 2006 . Photoniques . 25 . fr . 2007-10-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071110003132/http://www.sabix.org/documents/perot.pdf . 2007-11-10 . (inset "Pérot ou Perot?" on the second page. Translation: "In the previous issue...we wrote "Pérot", after the spelling that Alfred Perot himself used to sign his articles. Several readers pointed out to us that the "official" spelling — that is, the one used on the birth certificate — does not have an accent.")