Louis Georges Gouy
Louis Georges Gouy was a French physicist. He is the namesake of the Gouy balance, the Gouy–Chapman electric double layer model and the Gouy phase.
Gouy was born at Vals-les-Bains, Ardèche in 1854. He became a correspondent of the Académie des sciences in 1901, and a member in 1913.
Topics investigated
His principal scientific work was related to the following subjects:- The propagation velocity of light waves in dispersive media
- Propagation of spherical waves of small radius
- Distant diffraction
- Electrostatics: Inductive capacity of dielectrics
- Surface charge
- Effect of the magnetic field on the discharge in rarefied gases
- Electrocapillarity
- Emission capacity of absorbent of the coloured flames
- Brownian motion
- Measurement of magnetic susceptibility of transition metal complexes with Gouy balance
- The gouy phase shift, a feature of Gaussian beams