Arthur Radiguet

Arthur Radiguet
Born
8 April 1850

Old 8th arrondisement, Paris
Died6 December 1905 (aged 55)
3rd arrondissement, Paris
RelativesRaymond Radiguet (great-nephew)

Arthur Radiguet (8 April 1850 – 6 December 1905) was a French inventor.

Biography

Arthur Radiguet was born on 8 April 1850, in the house of his parents, optician Honoré Radiguet and Sophie née Muret, in Paris' old 8th arrondissement.

He attended the Lycée Turgot. In 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, he was assigned to the 35th Infantry Regiment. Afterwards, he joined the family business, Radiguet et Fils, which specialized in the production and sale of optical instruments. He extended the sphere of the company's activity to popular science, producing educational devices functioning through steam and electricity.[citation needed]

Radiguet was interested in photography and radiography. In 1899, he went into business with his son-in-law Georges Massiot; the company absorbed the business of Alfred Molteni, which was known for its projection devices and important offering of projection slides.

Radiguet was one of the first French deaths from radiodermatitis.

He died on 6 December 1905, at his home in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, and is interred at Père-Lachaise Cemetery (58th division). A cast of his hands, which were burned by X-rays, is preserved at the Hôpital Saint-Louis.

His name is engraved on the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations.

Distinctions

References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 G. L. (1905). "Arthur Radiguet". Les Parisiens de Paris (in French): XV–XVII.
  3. ↑ Maulvault, Paul (1912). Cinquantenaire de l'Association amicale des anciens élèves de l'École municipale Turgot, 2 juin 1861-2 juin 1911 (in French). p. 162.
  4. ↑ Rouyer, J. (1888). "Maison Radiguet fondée en 1804". L'Industrie Parisienne (in French) (11–12): 179–180.
  5. ↑ "Victime de la Science". Le Petit Parisien (in French). 12 December 1905. p. 1.
  6. ↑ "Société française des électriciens". Revue générale de l'électricité (in French). XVII (7): 241. 14 February 1925.
  7. ↑ "A. Radiguet". L'Année scientifique et industrielle (in French): 365–366. 1905.
  8. ↑ Pallardy, Guy (1989). "Chronique historique : Massiot" (PDF). Journal de Radiologie (in French). 70 (6–7): 435–438.
  9. ↑ "40e anniversaire de la découverte des Rayons X". La Lutte Contre le Cancer (in French): 37–38. 1936.