Yvette Cauchois

Professor
Yvette Cauchois
Born(1908-12-19)19 December 1908
Died19 November 1999(1999-11-19) (aged 90)
Paris, France
Resting placeMonastery at Bârsana, Romania
NationalityFrench
Alma materSorbonne
Known forInventing the Cauchois spectrometer

Development and use of Synchrotron light

President of the French Society of Physical Chemistry
AwardsAncel Prize from the Société chimique de France (1933)

Officer of the Legion of Honour
Officers of the National Order of Merit (France)

Gold medal of the University of Paris
Scientific career
FieldsX-ray spectroscopy X-ray optics
InstitutionsCNRS

National Laboratories of Frascati
Laboratory for the Use of Electromagnetic Radiation, Orsay University of Paris XI

Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Sorbonne
ThesisExtension de la spectroscopie des rayons X. Spectrographe à focalisation par cristal courbé; spectre d'émission X des gaz (1934)
Solvay Conference on Physics in Brussels 1951; Cauchois is seated, third from left.

Yvette Cauchois (French pronunciation: [ivɛt koʃwa] ; 19 December 1908 – 19 November 1999) was a French physicist known for her contributions to X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray optics, and for pioneering European synchrotron research.