Award
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q547276 · wikidata
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Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval
1851-06-08 – 1940-12-31
Life & Legacy
Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval (8 June 1851 – 31 December 1940) was a French physician, physicist and inventor of the moving-coil d'Arsonval galvanometer and the thermocouple ammeter. D'Arsonval was an important contributor to the emerging field of electrophysiology, the study of the effects of electricity on biological organisms, in the nineteenth century.
Occupation & Career
physicist, physician, professor, biophysicist, physiologist
Education
Paris Medical Faculty; Collège Sainte-Barbe
Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour; Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès; honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Legacy Highlights
Honors & Awards
Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour · Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès · honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Employer
Collège de France
Organizations & Memberships
Académie Nationale de Médecine · French Academy of Sciences
Education & Institutions
Collège Sainte-Barbe · Paris Medical Faculty
Verified Legacy Record
Award
Great Gold medal of the Société d'Encouragement au Progrès
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q547276 · wikidata
Award
honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Source: Wikidata population candidate Q547276 · wikidata
Sources & Provenance
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