The history of telecommunications -Branly page 506

The Father Joseph Édouard BRANLY was teacher at the College des bons enfants de Saint-Quentin "(now after some time - Lycée Impérial). Following his higher studies at the Lycée impérial Napoléon "(currently Lycée Henri IV) in Paris in science and mathematics in 1864. The following year he began studies physics at "normal école de physique", which concludes in 1868. He became professor in'68, for a few months, al-lycée impérial de Bourges, and in January 1869 is already assistant physics laboratories of the Sorbonne, with a stipend of 1,200 francs.
On 5 February 1874 and promoted to deputy director laboratoire de M. Desaint, and his salary was doubled, but funding for research remain scarce. Give Sorbonne on December 15, 1875 for teaching in a new Catholic institution founded by Hulst - Faculty des sciences catholique. Here receives a stipend of 8,000 francs. 'Appointed professor of the Faculty of Science January 19, 1876, the Catholic Institute was set up in an old convent of the Carmelite rue Vaugirard, and physics laboratories according to the infirmary poorly lit on the first floor of the convent. Soon economic difficulties invest Catholic institution making the precarious situation of Eduard which in 1877 embarked medical studies, presents his thesis on 29 June 1882:
"Dosage de les hémoglobine dans le sang par les procédés de optiques". Now doctor will be among the first to apply the electro therapy.

Désiré Eugène Édouard BRANLY