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Aug 01, 1911 Nancy, Grand Est, France Died on 03 Jul 2000 (aged 88)
French physicist
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About André Guinier
- André Guinier (1 August 1911 – 3 July 2000) was a French physicist who did important work in the field of X-ray diffraction and solid-state physics.
- He worked at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, then taught at the University of Paris and later at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay, where he co-founded the Laboratory of Solid State Physics.
- He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1971 and won the Gregori Aminoff Prize in 1985. In the field of small-angle scattering he discovered the relationship of particle size to intensity which is called Guinier's Law.
- He developed the Guinier camera for use in X-ray diffraction and contributed to the development of the electron microprobe by Raymond Castaing. Together with Prof George Dawson Preston he also gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone
