Charles Fabry (1867 to 1945) was a French physicist who worked on optics. Born in Marseille, he entered the Ecole Polytechnique in 1885 but resigned, returned to Marseille to study at the Faculty of Sciences and went on to teach physics and research interference optics. Together with Alfred Perot he invented the Fabry-Perot interferometer, and he is counted among the co-discoverers of the ozone layer. He later held the chair of physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Paris, was appointed professor at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1927 and was elected to the French Academy of Sciences that year. Recognition included the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1918 and election as a foreign member of the Royal Society in 1931.
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Marie Paul Auguste Charles Fabry was born in Marseille on 11 June 1867.
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He is also one of the co-discoverers of the ozone layer.
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