Charles Sadron is a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 physicist

Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

 specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.

Biography

Charles Sadron was professor at the university of Strasbourg

Strasbourg

Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin département. The city and the region of Alsace are historically German-speaking,...

. He founded in 1945 the Centre d’Étude de Physique Macromoléculaire (CEPM, Centre for the Study of Macromolecular Physics), renamed in 1954, Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules, (CRM, Centre for Macromolecular Research) where he was appointed director until 1967.
In 1967, he moved to Orléans

Orléans

-Prehistory and Roman:Cenabum was a Gallic stronghold, one of the principal towns of the Carnutes tribe where the Druids held their annual assembly. It was conquered and destroyed by Julius Caesar in 52 BC, then rebuilt under the Roman Empire...

 where he became head of the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM, Center for Molecular Biophysics).
He was the first laureate of the Holweck Prize

Holweck Prize

The Holweck Prize is a major European prize for Physics awarded jointly every year by the British Institute of Physics and the Société Française de Physique . It is one of the four Grand Prix of the SFP and one of the four International Bilateral Awards of the IOP, consisting of a gold medal and a...

, given by the British Institute of Physics in 1946.

Other

In 1985, the CRM and the École d’Application des Hauts Polymères (EAHP, School of Application of High Polymers) were merged into the Institut Charles Sadron

Institut Charles Sadron

The Institut Charles Sadron is a research center of the CNRS , associated with the University of Strasbourg, which was created in 1954 to answer the demand for fundamental research in the emerging field of polymer science.- History :In 1947, following the initiative of Charles Sadron , the CNRS...

 (ICS). The Institut Charles Sadron

Institut Charles Sadron

The Institut Charles Sadron is a research center of the CNRS , associated with the University of Strasbourg, which was created in 1954 to answer the demand for fundamental research in the emerging field of polymer science.- History :In 1947, following the initiative of Charles Sadron , the CNRS...

 (UPR 22), is a research center of the CNRS (National Centre of Scientific Research), associated with the University of Strasbourg

University of Strasbourg

The University of Strasbourg in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, is the largest university in France, with about 43,000 students and over 4,000 researchers....

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Publications

• Dynamic aspect of conformation changes in biological macromolecules, Reidel, 1973.

Interviews

http://www.ina.fr/economie-et-societe/vie-economique/video/CAF97059039/charles-sadron-les-macromolecules.fr.html

http://www.histcnrs.fr/Sadron.html

Links

• http://www-ics.u-strasbg.fr/?lang=en
• http://www.cnrs.fr/index.php