Alfred Perot, in full Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot, was a French physicist who lived from 3 November 1863 to 28 November 1925. With his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry-Perot interferometer in 1899. The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Janssen Medal for 1912, and the Royal Society awarded Fabry and Perot the Rumford Medal in 1918. The spelling of his surname is a small puzzle: he himself used the accented spelling Pérot in some scientific publications, but the French civil registry records the family name without an accent. His name lives on in the instrument he built with Fabry, and the awards from two national scientific bodies mark how his contemporaries regarded the work.
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