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Charles Fabry

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Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry (June 11 1867 – December 11 1945) was a French physicist.

He discovered the ozone layer in 1913. In optics, he discovered an explanation for the phenomenon of interference fringes. The Fabry-Perot interferometer is partly named after him.

He won the Henry Draper Medal in 1919.

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