Edmond Bauer (26 October 1880 – 17 October 1963) was a French physicist who was a student of

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and

Paul Langevin Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an ant ...

who made studies on radiation in his early career. He was from a Jewish family and suffered during World War II during the period of Nazi control. Bauer was born in Paris in a family of businesspeople and was educated at the lycées Condorcet and Janson de Sailly before graduating from the

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. He studied under

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, Marie Curie, and

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. His work on blackbody radiation was under Paul Langevin. Bauer married in 1911 to Renee Kahn. He was enlisted during World War I and was wounded at

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and captured by Germans. He was released after three years after which he moved to Switzerland. The family reunited and he was allowed to return to France on the condition that he would not join military service. He worked at the

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with Pierre Weiss and in 1928 he moved to

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. He refused to take refuge in the USA during World War II and stayed back in Vichy. His daughter was captured by the Gestapo and survived her incarceration in Ravensbrück, while he was forced to move to Switzerland. His oldest son was also arrested and died in Neuengamme. His contributions to physics include the determination of the Stefan constant, examination of spectra, hydrogen bonding in water, light dispersion, magnetism, quantum mechanics and chemical kinetics.

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* Interview with Baue
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Oral History interview transcript for Edmond Bauer on 8 January 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Session I, interviewed by

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and Théo Kahan at the Ecole de Chimie et Physique, Paris, France
Oral History interview transcript for Edmond Bauer on 14 January 1963, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- Session II, interviewed by

and Théo Kahan at the Ecole de Chimie et Physique, Paris, France {{DEFAULTSORT:Bauer, Edmond 1880 births 1963 deaths French physicists