About Augustin Charpentier
Lived 1852 – 1916 (aged 64). Augustin Charpentier was a French physician, ophthalmologist and psychiatrist.
Pierre Marie Augustin Charpentier (15 June 1852 – 4 August 1916) was a French physician and professor of the University of Nancy. He is known for his work on human vision and optics, including the discovery of the size–weight illusion.
Life Pierre Marie Augustin Charpentier was born in Argenton-sur-Creuse, France. in 1852.
He was assistant of Edmund Landolt between 1875 and 1878.
He studied medicine in Limoges, and defended his doctoral thesis in Paris in 1877. He replaced Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval as chairman of the biophysics session.
Honors and awards He was member of the French Academy of Sciences and the Académie nationale de médecine.
He earned the Buignet prize of the Académie nationale de médecine in 1883, the Montyon Prize by the French Academy of Science in 1885, and the 1901.
He was named officer of public instruction in 1890 and knight of the Legion of Honour in 1906.
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French physician
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Augustin Charpentier was born on 15 June 1852 in Argenton-sur-Creuse.
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Augustin Charpentier died on 4 August 1916 in Argenton-sur-Creuse.
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Augustin Charpentier was a physician, ophthalmologist and psychiatrist.
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Augustin Charpentier was French.
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