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Éleuthère Mascart
Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (20 February 1837 – 24 August 1908) was a French physicist. His research focused in optics, electricity, magnetism, and meteorology. Life Mascart was born in Quarouble, Nord. Starting in 1858, he attended the École normale supérieure (rue d'Ulm), earning his '' agrégé-préparateur'' three years later. He acquired his doctoral degree in science in 1864. After serving at various posts in secondary education, in 1868 he moved to the Collège de France to become Henri Victor Regnault's assistant. Mascart was appointed to succeed Régnault as the tenured Régnault chair in 1872, which he held until his death. In 1878 he also became the first director of the Bureau Central Météorologique. He won the Prix Bordin of the Académie Française in 1866 and the Grand prix of the Académie des sciences in 1874. He was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1890. He was elected Perpetual Member (1884), Secretary, and in ...
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Quarouble
Quarouble () is a Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department in northern France. Heraldry Population 1954 incident An alien encounter was reported in the commune in 1954; see Marius Dewilde. Calcinated rock was reportedly found at the site of the incident and some witnesses reported experiencing Dissociative amnesia, missing time. See also *Communes of the Nord department References Communes of Nord (French department) {{Valenciennes-geo-stub ...
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