Georges Bruhat

Georges Bruhat (1887-1945), French physicist.

1906 : entry with ENS of the street of Ulm;
1910: he is aggregate-preparer with the ENS;
1914: it makes its thesis with the professor Aimé Cotton on circular dichroism and rotatory dispersion
1914: it is mobilized for the First World War; it will receive the Military Cross;
1919: it is named lecturer in Lille;
1921: it is named professor in Lille, where it makes research on dispersion in UV close to the absorption band;
1924: publication of the treaty of electricity;
1926: publication of the treaty of thermodynamics;
1927: it is named professor at the university of Paris and ENS;
1930: publication of the treaty of optics; deliver polarimetry;
1932: it builds a photoelectric polarimeter in UV;
1934: publication of the physical treaty of mechanics;
1935: it is named sub-manager of the ENS;
1941: it replaces Eugene Bloch as director of the physics laboratory of the ENS (this last, driven out by the administration of Vichy, left to find refuge in Lyon);
1944: it is offered as an hostage to Gestapo to the place of a resistant pupil. He dies in deportation in a camp

Works

Georges Bruhat; Course of general physics . The course comprises four following volumes:

Electricity , Masson (8th edition-1963), 912 pp.
Mechanical , Masson (6th edition-1967), 726 pp.
Thermodynamic , Masson (6th edition-1968), 912 pp. 6th edition re-examined and increased by Alfred Kastler, Nobel Prize of Optical physique 1966.
, Masson (6th edition-1965), 1026 pp. 6th edition re-examined and increased by Alfred Kastler. Republished by Dunod (2004): ISBN 2100488562.

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