Charles Sadron (12 May 1902 – 5 September 1993), was a

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who specialized in the study of

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macromolecules.

Biography

Charles Sadron was professor at the university of

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. He founded in 1945 the Centre d'Étude de Physique Macromoléculaire (CEPM, Centre for the Study of Macromolecular Physics), renamed in 1954, Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules, (CRM, Centre for Macromolecular Research) where he was appointed director until 1967. In 1967, he moved to

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CBM
Center for Molecular Biophysics). He was the first laureate of the

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, given by the British

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in 1946. In 1985, the CRM and the École d'Application des Hauts Polymères (EAHP, School of Application of High Polymers) were merged into the

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(ICS). The

(UPR 22), is a research center of the

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(National Centre of Scientific Research), associated with the

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Publications

* ''Dynamic aspect of conformation changes in biological macromolecules'', Reidel, 1973.

References

External links

L’Institut Charles Sadron

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Interviews

* http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/vie-economique/video/CAF97059039/charles-sadron-les-macromolecules.fr.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20110720232423/http://www.histcnrs.fr/Sadron.html French physicists 1902 births 1993 deaths Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg {{scientist-stub