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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867, Marseille – 11 December 1945, Paris) was a French physicist.

He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer.

He won the Henry Draper Medal in 1919. He was the first general director of the Institut d'optique théorique et appliquée and director of "grande école" École supérieure d'optique (SupOptique).

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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867, Marseille – 11 December 1945, Paris) was a French physicist.

Together with Henri Buisson, he discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer.

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  • ... à plusieurs époques on a pu croire que l'optique était une science finie, où le dernier mot avait été dit, ou presque. Chaque fois la découverte de faits nouveaux, le renversement ou l'élargissement des théories admises, venaient rappeler que la science n'est jamais finie.
    Cette impression qu'une science est terminée s'est produite bien des fois, dans diverses branches du savoir humain; elle a eu souvent pour cause une explosion de découvertes faites par un homme de génie ou par un petit groupe d'hommes, en un temps si court que les esprits moyens avaient de la peine à suivre et avaient l'inconscient désir de reprendre haleine, de s'habituer aux choses inattendues qui venaient de leur être révélées. Comme éblouis par ces vérités nouvelles, ils ne pouvaient voir ce qui était au-delà. Parfois un siècle entier n'a pas suffi à produire cette accoutumance.
    • ... at several times we have thought that optics was a finished science, where the last word had been said, or almost. Each time the discovery of new facts, the overthrow or extension of accepted theories, reminded us that science is never finished.
      The impression that science is over has occurred many times in various branches of human knowledge, often because of an explosion of discoveries made by a genius or a small group of men in such a short time that average minds could hardly follow and had the unconscious desire to take breath, to get used to the unexpected things that came to be revealed. Dazzled by these new truths, they could not see beyond. Sometimes an entire century did not suffice to produce this accommodation.
    • Charles Fabry (1927). La vie et l'oeuvre scientifique de Augustin Fresnel. Académie des sciences. p. 13.  

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