Éleuthère Élie Nicolas Mascart (February 20, 1837 – August 24, 1908) was a noted French

France

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 physicist

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, a researcher in optics

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 and electricity

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Mascart was born in Quarouble

Quarouble

-1954 incident:An alien encounter was reported in the commune in 1954. Calcinated rock was reportedly found at the site of the incident and some witnesses reported experiencing missing time.-References:*...

, Nord. He attended the École normale supérieure

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 (rue d'Ulm). He became a Professor at the Collège de France

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He won the Bordin Prize of the Académie française

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 in 1866 and the Grand prix of the Académie des sciences in 1874.

He was elected Perpetual Member and Secretary of the Académie des Sciences and Foreign Member of the British Royal Society. Mascart founded Supélec

Supélec

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 in 1894.

He died in Paris

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 at the age of 71. His son-in-law Marcel Brillouin

Marcel Brillouin

Louis "Marcel" Brillouin was a French physicist and mathematician.Born in Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France, his father was a painter who moved to Paris when Marcel was a boy. There he attended the Lycée Condorcet. The Brillouin family returned to Melle during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 to escape...

 and his grandson Léon Brillouin

Léon Brillouin

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were also noted scientists.