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En un día como hoy, French physicist and academic Charles Fabry was born

Jun 11, 1867. Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (11 June 1867 - 11 December 1945) was a French physicist. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. Together with his colleague Alfred Pérot he invented the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899. He and Henri Buisson discovered the ozone layer in 1913. Fabry was the President of the Société astronomique de France from 1931-1933. During his career Fabry published 197 scientific papers, 14 books, and over 100 popular articles. For his important scientific achievements he received the Rumford Medal from the Royal Society of London in 1918. In the United States his work was recognized by the Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (1919) and the Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (1921). In 1927 he was elected to the French Academy of Sciences.