| Pierre Auger AKA Pierre Victor Auger Born: 14-May-1899
Birthplace: Paris, France
Died: 25-Dec-1993
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: France
Executive summary: Auger effect Military service: Free French Forces (1941-44) Pierre Auger was a student of Jean Perrin and studied experimental physics, with significant research into photoelectric effects, slow neutrons, and atmospheric air showers. In 1925 he described a two-electron process wherein a weakly-bound electron falls back into a state of lower energy, now called the Auger effect. In 1938 he discovered the Auger shower (a particle cascade produced as cosmic rays enter the atmosphere). Father: Victor Emile Auger (chemist, b. 1864, d. 1949)
Wife: Suzanne Motteau (m. 1921, two daughters)
University: PhD Physics, École Normale Supérieure (1926)
Teacher: Physics, University of Paris (1926-37)
Professor: Physics, University of Paris (1937-45)
French Legion of Honor
CERN (Co-Founder) 1954
Feltrinelli Prize 1961
European Space and Research Organization (Director-General, 1964-67)
French Official French Space Commission (President, 1960-64)
UN Official UNESCO (Director of Science, 1948-60)
French Official Director of Higher Education (1945-48)
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