Mercanton Paul-Louis

Biography

  • Born on 11.05.1876 in Lausanne
  • Died on 25.02.1963 in Lausanne
  • Native of Riex (VD), Cully (VD) and Lutry (VD)
  • Baccalaureate or maturity: sciences (Lausanne, 1894).
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent: engineering degree (Lausanne, 1899).
  • Doctorate: sciences, physics (professor Dufour) (Lausanne, 1901) Contribution to the study of energy losses in dielectrics. Lausanne: lmpr. Corbaz. 1902, 63 p.))

Career outside UNIL

  • Engineer, A.E.G., Basel-Berlin (1903->)
  • assistant (professor ROENTGEN), Munich (1905- 1906)
  • glaciologist (Arctic exploration)
  • Chief, Vaud Meteorological Service of the Champ-de-l'Air (1911-1941)
  • Swiss expedition, Greenland (1912-1913)
  • teacher of theoretical electricity, Business School
  • substitute teacher of physics, School of Business (two semesters)
  • founder and first director, Station radiophonique du Champ-de-l'Air
  • initiator (with Roland PIÈCE), Swiss Broadcasting (1923 ->)
  • Director, Swiss Central Meteorological Station, Zurich (1934-1941).

Career at UNIL

  • assistant (professor Adrien PALAZ), Electricity Laboratory, School of Engineering (1901-1903)
  • privat-docent of electrical measurements (1903-1905)
  • Extraordinary professor of electrical measurements and electricity laboratory (1904-1938)
  • Laboratory of physics, EPUL (1904-1928), meteorology
  • Faculty of Sciences (1913-1934), Geophysics, Exploration Topography
  • Faculty of Science (1920-1934).

Obituary

  • Obituary by André Renaud + list of publications: PDF