Jacques Mering was a Lithuanian-born, naturalised French engineer well known in the fields of X-ray crystallography and mineralogy.
17 Facts About Jacques Mering
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Jacques Mering earned the degree of Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Ecole Speciale des Travaux Publics, and Bachelor of Science from Faculte des sciences.
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Jacques Mering was director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris, and subsequently Director of CNRS Laboratory in Orleans.
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Perhaps, Mering is best remembered for his inspiration and influence on the British chemist Rosalind Franklin, whom he trained in X-ray crystallography.
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Jacques Mering was born to a Litvak family in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, then within the Russian Empire.
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Jacques Mering joined the Faculte des sciences in Paris as research engineer in 1925, and at the same time enrolled in the institute for the course of Licencie de Sciences.
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Jacques Mering continued to work as research engineer till 1931.
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Jacques Mering returned to Paris after the war in 1945.
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Jacques Mering died on 29 March 1973 after several months of severe illness.
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Jacques Mering published over 100 technical papers on X-ray and electron diffraction of clays and related layer silicates, and of carbon, graphite, and the phenomena involved in graphitisation.
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Jacques Mering performed numerous experimental works on fine-grained materials, including crystal growth in gels, the crystalline organization in cellulose, the 'decoration' of kaolinite crystals with colloidal gold particles, clays as catalysts, montmorillonites, hectorite, and clay-organic complexes.
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Jacques Mering was known a strictly principled individual when it comes to academic ethics.
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Jacques Mering never claimed for co-authorship in publications of theses of his own students.
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Jacques Mering was described as "a deliberate charmer with whom all the young women were in love".
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Jacques Mering was the founder member and President of Groupe Francais des Argiles and was president.
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Jacques Mering was president of the Groupe Francais d'Etude des Carbones, and of the Association Francaise de Cristallographie.
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Jacques Mering was elected member of the Clay Minerals Society of USA.