Professor Yvette Cauchois | |
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| Born | 19 December 1908 Francueil, Indre-et-Loire, France |
| Died | 19 November 1999 (aged 90) Paris, France |
| Resting place | Monastery at Bârsana, Romania |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Sorbonne |
| Known for | Inventing the Cauchois spectrometer Development and use of Synchrotron light President of the French Society of Physical Chemistry |
| Awards | Ancel Prize from the Société chimique de France (1933) Officer of the Legion of Honour |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | X-ray spectroscopy X-ray optics |
| Institutions | CNRS National Laboratories of Frascati |
| Thesis | Extension de la spectroscopie des rayons X. Spectrographe à focalisation par cristal courbé; spectre d'émission X des gaz (1934) |
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.