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Claude Pouillet
Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet
Born(1790-02-16)16 February 1790
Died14 June 1868(1868-06-14) (aged 78)
Known forPouillet effect
Pouillet's law

Claude Servais Mathias Pouillet (16 February 1790 – 14 June 1868) was a French physicist and a professor of physics at the Sorbonne and member of the French Academy of Sciences (elected 1837).

Biography[edit]

He studied sciences at the École normale supérieure (Paris), and from 1829 to 1849 was associated with the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, first as a professor, and beginning in 1832, an administrator. After the death of Pierre Louis Dulong in 1838, he attained the chair of physics at the Faculty of Sciences.[1] For a brief period of time, he was chair of physics at the École Polytechnique (1831), where he was succeeded by César Despretz in 1831 and Gabriel Lamé in 1832.[2]

In 1852, he was compulsorily retired from the Faculty of Sciences because he refused to swear an oath of allegiance to the imperial government that took power in late 1851.[1]

Scientific research[edit]

The Pouillet effect was named after the phenomenon that he published in 1822 on the heat produced by the wetting of dry sand.[3][4]

He developed a pyrheliometer and made, between 1837 and 1838,[5] the first quantitative measurements of the solar constant. His estimate was 1228 W/m2, very close to the current estimate of 1367 W/m2. Using the Dulong-Petit law inappropriately, he estimated the temperature of the Sun's surface to be around 1800 °C.[6] This value was corrected in 1879 to 5430 °C by Jožef Stefan (1835–1893).

He published works on optics, electricity, magnetism, meteorology, photography and photometry. In the field of optics he conducted investigations of diffraction phenomena. In his studies of electricity, he designed sine and tangent galvanometers.[7][1] Pouillet developed and corrected Joseph Fourier's work on the surface temperature of the earth, developing the first real mathematical treatment of the greenhouse effect. He speculated that water vapour and carbon dioxide might trap infrared radiation in the atmosphere, warming the earth enough to support plant and animal life.[8]

His acclaimed textbook on physics and meteorology, Éléments de physique expérimentale et de météorologie, was published in four parts.[9] Also, it was translated into German by Johann Heinrich Jakob Müller, and published with the title, Lehrbuch der Physik und Meteorologie.[10]

Svante Arrhenius (1896) cited a great deal of Pouillet's work.

Pouillet pyrheliometer, 1863
  • Pouillet Tangent Galvanometer on display at Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
    Pouillet Tangent Galvanometer on display at Musée d'histoire des sciences de la Ville de Genève
  • Bibliography[edit]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ a b c Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers edited by Virginia Trimble, Thomas R. Williams, Katherine Bracher, Richard Jarrell, Jordan D. Marché, F. Jamil Ragep
  • ^ Annuaire de l'Ecole royale polytechnique, Volume 5; Volume 1837 Google Books
  • ^ Pouillet (1822).『Mémoire sur de nouveaux phénomènes de production de chaleur』[Memoir on new phenomena of heat production]. Annales de Chimie et de Physique. 2nd series (in French). 20: 141–162. From p. 142: "À l'instant où un liquide mouille un solide, il y a dégagement de chaleur." (At the instant when a liquid wets a solid, there is a release of heat.)
  • ^ Adsorption by Powders and Porous Solids: Principles, Methodology by Jean Rouquerol, Françoise Rouquerol, Philip Llewellyn, Guillaume Maurin, Kenneth S.W. Sing
  • ^ Solar and Terrestrial Radiation: Methods and Measurements by Kinsell Coulson
  • ^ See:
  • ^ Pouillet (1837). "Mémoire sur la pile de Volta et sur la loi générale de l'intensité que prennent les courrants, soit qu'ils proviennent d'un seul élément, soit qu'ils proviennent d'une pile à grande ou à petite tension" [Memoir on the Voltaic pile [i.e., battery] and on the general law of the intensity that currents assume, whether they come from a single element or they come from a pile of high or low voltage]. Comptes rendus (in French). 4: 267–279.
  • ^ Baum, Sr., Rudy M. (2016). "Future Calculations: The first climate change believer". Distillations. 2 (2): 38–39. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
  • ^ HathiTrust Digital Library Eléments de physique expérimentale et de météorologie
  • ^ Catalog HathiTrust Lehrbuch der Physik und Meteorologie

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