Editing Pierre Victor Auger (section)

==Career==
In 1926, he obtained his doctorate in physics from the University of Paris. In 1927, he was named assistant to the faculté des sciences of Paris and, at the same time, adjoint chief of service to l'Institut de biologie physico-chimique. Chief of work to faculty in 1934 and general secretary of the annual tables of the constants in 1936, he was named university lecturer in physics to the faculty on the first of November 1937. He was charged with, until 1940, the course on the experimental bases of the [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] within the chair of theoretical physics and astrophysics. He was also adjoint director of the laboratory of physical chemistry. He then occupied the chair of quantum physics and relativity of the faculté des sciences of Paris.

At the end of [[World War II]], he was named director of higher education from 1945 to 1948, which permitted him to introduce the first chair of [[genetics]] at the [[Sorbonne University|Sorbonne]], conferred upon [[Boris Ephrussi]].

The process where [[Auger electron]]s are emitted from [[atom]]s is used in [[Auger electron spectroscopy]] to study the elements on the surface of materials.<ref name="bio"/> This method was named after him, independently from [[Lise Meitner]] who discovered the process one year before in 1922, albeit in a different, and then controversial, context about the nature of the beta-rays versus [[Charles Drummond Ellis]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-0348-8444-0 |title=Controversy and Consensus: Nuclear Beta Decay 1911–1934 |date=2000 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-0348-8444-0 |last1=Jensen |first1=Carsten |isbn=978-3-0348-9569-9 |editor-first1=Finn |editor-first2=Helge |editor-first3=Erik |editor-first4=Roger H. |editor-last1=Aaserud |editor-last2=Kragh |editor-last3=Rüdinger |editor-last4=Stuewer }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hardouin Duparc |first=Olivier |date=2009-09-01 |title=Pierre Auger – Lise Meitner: Comparative contributions to the Auger effect |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.3139/146.110163/html?lang=en |journal=International Journal of Materials Research |language=en |volume=100 |issue=9 |pages=1162–1166 |doi=10.3139/146.110163 |issn=2195-8556|url-access=subscription }}</ref>