Augustin Charpentier
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June 15, 1852
Visual perception
Augustin Charpentier | |
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| Born | June 15, 1852 |
| Died | August 4, 1916 (aged 64) |
| Known for | Size–weight illusion |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Medicine Visual perception |
| Institutions | University of Nancy |
| Thesis | La vision avec les diverses parties de la rétine (1877) |
Pierre Marie Augustin Charpentier (15 June 1852 – 4 August 1916) was a French physician and professor of the University of Nancy.[1][2] He is known for his work on human vision and optics, including the discovery of the size–weight illusion.
Pierre Marie Augustin Charpentier was born in Argenton-sur-Creuse, France. in 1852.[3]
He was assistant of Edmund Landolt between 1875 and 1878.[2][4]
He studied medicine in Limoges, and defended his doctoral thesis in Paris in 1877.[3] His thesis was related to vision (French: La vision avec les diverses parties de la rétine).[2][1]
In 1878, he was admitted together with Émile Léon Poincaré, to the new the chair of physics and medicine of the University of Nancy, Charpentier leading the physics part.[2] He becomes full professor of medicine in 1879.[1]
In 1888, he became the national correspondent of the physics and chemistry division for the Académie nationale de médecine.[1]
In 1900, he attended and presented a paper at the first International Congress of Physics, during the Exposition Universelle,[5] He replaced Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval as chairman of the biophysics session.[5]
He died in 1916, in his city of birth.[3]
