Charles Sadron


Charles Louis Sadron, was a French physicist who specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.

Biography

Sadron was born in Cluis and studied at the University of Poitiers and later obtained a teaching position at Lycée Kléber in Strasbourg. While teaching at the high school, he obtained his PhD in 1932 at the University of Strasbourg on the magnetic properties of metals under the supervision of Pierre Weiss. He obtained a Rockefeller scholarship afterwards and worked at California Institute of Technology from 1933 to 1934. Sadron returned to France and became a professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1937.
In 1945, Sadron founded the Centre for the Study of Macromolecular Physics, which was renamed in 1954, as the Centre for Macromolecular Research. He was appointed director there until 1967.
In 1967, he moved to Orléans where he became head of the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire at the University of Orléans. Sadron was the first laureate of the Holweck Prize, given by the British Institute of Physics in 1946.

Institut Charles Sadron

In 1985, the CRM and the École d'Application des Hauts Polymères were merged into the Institut Charles Sadron. The Institut Charles Sadron, is a research center of the CNRS, associated with the University of Strasbourg.

Publications

  • Dynamic aspect of conformation changes in biological macromolecules, Reidel, 1973.

    Interviews

  • http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/vie-economique/video/CAF97059039/charles-sadron-les-macromolecules.fr.html
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20110720232423/http://www.histcnrs.fr/Sadron.html
Category:French physicists
Category:1902 births
Category:1993 deaths
Category:Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg
Category:People from Indre
Category:University of Poitiers alumni
Category:Rockefeller Fellows
Category:French biophysicists
Category:University of Strasbourg alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Orléans
Category:National Museum of Natural History people