André Maréchal#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1657 |
| Membership type: | |
| Section: | PHYSICS |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
André Maréchal passed away October 14, 2007.
Positions Held
- 1968 - 1983 Director general of the French Institut d'Optique
- Lecturer and professor at the Sorbonne and later the Institute of Optics in Orsay
Fields of Scholarship
- Image processing
- Diffraction
- Coherence
- Image formation
- Geometric optics
- Maréchal criterion
Honours and Awards
- 1965 Young Medal and Prize
- 1962 - 1966 President of the International Commission for Optics
- Honorary vice president of the Comité français de physique
- Founding member of the Franco-Finnish Association for Scientific and Technical Research
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Member of the French Academy of Technologies
- 1977 C.E.K. Mees Medal
- 1986 Honorary Membership of the Optical Society
- 1989 SPIE Gold Medal
