• Source: Louis Georges Gouy

      • Louis Georges Gouy (February 19, 1854 – January 27, 1926) was a French physicist. He is the namesake of the Gouy balance, the Gouy–Chapman electric double layer model (which is a relatively successful albeit limited model that describes the electrical double-layer which finds applications in vast areas of studies from physical chemistry to biophysics) and the Gouy phase.
      Gouy was born at Vals-les-Bains, Ardèche in 1854. He became a correspondent of the Académie des sciences in 1901, and a member in 1913.


      Topics investigated


      His principal scientific work was related to the following subjects:

      The propagation velocity of light waves in dispersive media
      Propagation of spherical waves of small radius
      Distant diffraction (angles of dispersion reaching 150°)
      Electrostatics: Inductive capacity of dielectrics
      Surface charge
      Effect of the magnetic field on the discharge in rarefied gases
      Electrocapillarity
      Emission capacity of absorbent of the coloured flames
      Brownian motion
      Measurement of magnetic susceptibility of transition metal complexes with Gouy balance
      The gouy phase shift, a feature of Gaussian beams


      See also


      Gouy–Stodola theorem


      References




      Further reading


      L. G. Gouy La Nature n°2708 du 27 février 1926
      A Sella, Gouy's Balance, Chemistry World, December 2010

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