Charles Maurain
- Category : Science-Physics
- Type : MGE
- Profile : 3/5 - Martyr / Heretic
- Definition : Split - Small (14,15,34,48,55,57)
- Incarnation Cross : RAX Planning 1
Categories
- Birth Year: 1871
- Birthday: 27. February
- Birthplace: Paris, France
- Category: Science-Physics
- Profile: 3-5
- Type: Emotional Manifesting Generator
- Inc.Cross: Planning 1
- Definition: Double Split - Small (14,15,34,48,55,57)
- Variables: BLL-MRL
- 3740 Community
- 1858 Judgment
- 0952 Concentration
- 1020 Awakening
- 1762 Acceptance
- 3536 Transistoriness
Biography
Charles Honoré Maurain (born 27 February 1871 in Orleans, died May 26, 1967 in Paris) is a French geophysicist who was noted for his contributions to the study of terrestrial magnetism and ionosphere. He played an important role in the promotion in France of meteorology, aviation technology and the radio to the authorities.
Normalien and Associate physics, Maurain prepared his doctoral thesis "on the magnetization of iron divided" as an assistant to Éleuthère Mascart the Collège de France (1894). After teaching high school in Lorient (1897-1899), he served on the faculty of sciences of Rennes (1899-1905), Caen (1905-1910) before becoming Director of the Institute aérotechnique Saint-Cyr. During the First World War, he commanded a section of the second army with the rank of lieutenant and was assigned to the direction of the inventions. In 1921, became professor of physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris, he campaigned with the authorities to create a Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (similar institution was created decades earlier in Alsace-Lorraine by German authorities in Strasbourg), becoming its first director. Member of the Bureau des Longitudes, he was elected in 1924 president of the Meteorological Society of France, two years later became Dean of the Faculty of Sciences in Paris before being named to the Academy of Sciences May 12, 1930 in astronomy section. Under the Occupation, it is rector of the Academy of Paris - Chairman of the University of Paris from March 5 to September 30, 1941 and then took his university retirement. He is president of the Academy of Sciences in 1944.
