Early Life and Education
– Born in Quarouble, Nord
– Attended École normale supérieure and earned agrégé-préparateur
– Obtained doctoral degree in science
– Moved to Collège de France as assistant to Henri Victor Regnault
– Appointed as tenured Régnault chair in 1872
Achievements and Honors
– Won Bordin Prize of Académie française in 1866
– Received Grand prix of Académie des sciences in 1874
– Elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1890
– Became Perpetual Member, Secretary, and President of Académie des Sciences
– Elected Foreign Member of the British Royal Society
Contributions to Science
– Founded Bureau Central Météorologique in 1878
– Established Supélec in 1894
– Mentored graduate student Henri Bénard in groundbreaking experiments on thermal convection
– Published works on optics, electricity, magnetism, and mechanics
– Cape Mascart is named after him
Works and Publications
– Recherches sur le spectre solaire ultra-violet et sur la détermination des longueurs donde (1864)
– Éléments de Mécanique (1866)
– Traité délectricité statique (1876)
– A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1883-1888)
– Traité dOptique (1889-1893)
Legacy and References
– Obituaries published in Journal de Physique théorique et appliquée and Nature
– Son-in-law Marcel Brillouin and grandson Léon Brillouin were noted scientists
– References to Mascart’s life and works in various scientific publications
– Cape Mascart named in his honor
– Mentioned in Fizeau experiment Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89leuth%C3%A8re_Mascart
Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (20 February 1837 – 24 August 1908) was a French physicist, a researcher in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology.
