Eugène Fabry Explained

Eugène Fabry
Birth Date:	16 October 1856
Birth Place:	Marseille, France
Death Place:	Mazargues,^[1] France
Education:	Lycée Thiers École polytechnique
Known For:	Fabry gap theorem

Charles Eugène Fabry (in French øʒɛn fabʁi/; 16 October 18566 October 1944) was a French mathematician. Fabry is best known for studying the singularities of analytic functions, including proving the Fabry gap theorem.^{[2] [3]}

Biography

Eugène Fabry, born in Marseille, was the second of five sons in his family. His brothers included physicist Charles Fabry and astronomer Louis Fabry.^[4]

He became professor of analysis at Aix-Marseille University and the University of Montpellier, and a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences.^[4]

He was the 1930 recipient of the Prix Francoeur of the French Academy of Sciences, "for his work on the singularities of analytical functions".^[5]

Notes and References

1. Louis de Broglie: La vie et l'oeuvre de Charles Fabry, Annuaire pour l'an 1948 publié par le Bureau des longitudes, Page B.5
2. Fabry. Eugène. Sur les points singuliers d'une fonction donnée par son développement en série et l'impossibilité du prolongement analytique dans des cas très généraux. Annales scientifiques de l'École Normale Supérieure . Série 3. 13. 1896. 367–399. 10.24033/asens.431.
3. Pólya . George . 10.2307/1990153 . Transactions of the American Mathematical Society . 6577 . 65–71 . On converse gap theorems . 52 . 1942.
4. Lecomte . Jean . Arnulf . Albert . Vassy . E. . June 1973 . 10.1364/ao.12.001117 . 6 . Applied Optics . 1117 . Charles Fabry . 12.
5. January 1931 . 10.1038/127181a0 . 3196 . Nature . 181–182 . Prize Awards of the Paris Academy of Sciences . 127.