Yvette Cauchois

Yvette Cauchois (19 December 1908 – 19 November 1999) was a French physicist known for her contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics. Long-term faculty member of the University of Paris IV (then Sorbonne) as director of the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Cauchois was also a research associate of the French National Center for Scientific Research, and spent time working in Rome. She became an Officer in the Legion of Honour, Commander in the Ordre des palmes academiques (decoration for services to education) and an officer in the Ordre nationale du merite (national order of merit). She was nominated Doctor honoris causa of the University of Bucharest in 1993. Cauchois was a recipient of a number of awards: the Ancel Prize in 1933, Henri Becquerel Prize in 1935, Gizbal-Baral Prize in 1936, Henry de Jouvenel Prize in 1938, Jerome Ponti Prize in 1942, the Triossi Prize in 1946 and the Medal of the Czechoslovak Society of Spectroscopy in 1974. Born in Paris, she died of bronchitis while visiting Romania.