Charles Sadron


Charles Sadron, was a French physicist who specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.

Biography

Charles Sadron was professor at the university of Strasbourg. He founded in 1945 the Centre d'Étude de Physique Macromoléculaire, renamed in 1954, Centre de Recherche sur les Macromolécules, where he was appointed director until 1967.
In 1967, he moved to Orléans where he became head of the Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire.
He was the first laureate of the Holweck Prize, given by the British Institute of Physics in 1946.
In 1985, the CRM and the École d'Application des Hauts Polymères were merged into the Institut Charles Sadron. The Institut Charles Sadron, is a research center of the CNRS, associated with the University of Strasbourg.

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