RE: Auger

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

In his book, "Pionniers de l'Atome," Bertrand Goldschmidt refers to Pierre

Auger as a brilliant French scientist.

"OH zhay" is the correct pronunciation.



Jaro 





-----Original Message-----

From: Stabin, Michael [mailto:michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu]

Sent: Thursday September 04, 2003 8:54 AM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Auger







Regarding the pronunciation of "Auger", I have always believed what I

found on this web site (http://zhurnal.net/ww/zw?PhysicsWords):



"Don't say AW-gher like the drill, but rather "O. J." or even "OH zhay!"

with a French twinkle in your eyes."



I taught this recently at a short course, but was challenged by one of

the students that Auger was actually raised in a German speaking

province in France, and that the pronunciation might be more like

"OW-gher". Not hugely important, I know, but now I'm curious. Anyone

have any way of verifying or refuting this claim?



Mike



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