Jules Jamin was professor of physics at Ecole polytechnique from 1852 to 1881 and received the Rumford Medal in 1858 for his work on light.
20 Facts About Jules Jamin
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Jules Jamin improved David Brewster's inclined interference plates with the development of the Jamin interferometer.
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Jules Jamin, son of Anthony Peter Jamin, was born in 1818 in Termes, Ardennes, France.
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Jules Jamin began his education at a small school in Vouziers, a small village located in northeast France.
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Jules Jamin obtained his first position at the college of Caen, where he succeeded Paul Desains.
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From 1844 to 1854, Jamin studied and confirmed the conclusions of Macedonio Melloni concerning energy absorption alongside fellow physicists L Courtepee and Antoine-Philibert Masson.
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In 1856 Jules Jamin began working on, and completed his well known instrument, the Jamin interferometer.
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Jules Jamin was a staunch advocate of the movement in 19th century French towards precision measurement being essential for meaningful scientific experimentation.
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Jules Jamin observed the Solar eclipse of July 8,1842 with mentoring from Francois Arago.
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Jules Jamin's work encompassed the subjects of magnetism, electricity, humidity, and capillary action.
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In 1860 Jules Jamin observed that when a cylindrical capillary tube was filled with a series of alternating bubbles and water droplets, the chain remained immobile despite an increase or decrease of pressure at one end of the tube.
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The "Jules Jamin effect" has been more broadly defined as a resistance to flow in capillaries due to hysteresis of the contact angle, or to changes in the radius of the capillary, or to differences in the interfacial tension at the forward and trailing edges of bubbles.
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In 1873, Jules Jamin invented a magnet with a layered design that allowed it to carry twenty-two times its own weight.
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Jules Jamin had a couple of articles that were published in Revue des Deux Mondes, a French magazine that was published in Paris.
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Jules Jamin married at Reims in 1851, Theresa Josephine Eudoxia Lebrun, with whom he had a daughter, Lucie who was the wife of the physicist Henri Becquerel, and a son, a painter, Paul Jamin.
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Jules Jamin was friends with Irish physicist John Tyndall, and after the Franco-Prussian War began he even accepted Tyndall's offer to take care of his wife and children in Brittany while Jules Jamin remained in Paris.
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Jules Jamin's name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
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Jules Jamin's name is located on the side that faces Grenelle, a neighborhood located in the southwestern part of Paris.
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Jules Jamin enjoyed studying the work of distinguished artists at the Louvre and was a talented artist himself.
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Jules Jamin's family is in possession of many of his paintings, as is the church in his native commune of Termes.