Pierre Jacquinot
Pierre Jacquinot was a French physicist.
Jacquinot was a PhD student of Aimé Cotton.
He was director of Laboratoire Aimé-Cotton during almost 20 years. From 1962 to 1969 he was appointed director general of CNRS.
In the mid-1940s, Jacquinot noticed that a Michelson interferometer could be modified by removing the need of a slit to achieve a higher resolution. This result became known as Jacquinot's advantage, published by Jacquinot in 1954. In Laboratoire Aimé–Cotton, he advised the work of and Janine Connes who developed the Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy between 1954 and 1966.
In 1966 he entered the French Academy of Sciences. He became its president from 1980 to 1982.
Awards
- 1950: Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize
- 1976: Three Physicists Prize
- 1978: CNRS Gold medal
- 1962: Prix Jaffé