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Jul 05, 1891 Fourmies, Hauts de France, France Died on 04 Feb 1979 (aged 87)
French physicist and mathemetician
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About André Pochan
- André Pochan (1891 in Fourmies, France – ?) was a French physicist and mathematician and Egyptology enthusiast.
- He taught at Cairo High School from 1930 to 1937.
- In 1934 he investigated the coloration of the Khufu and Khafra pyramids.
- Deported to Mauthausen in 1943, he survived the death camps and, as such, he was awarded the Medal of the Resistance and Commander of the Legion of Honor.
- His main research focused on the Egyptian pyramids, especially the pyramid of Cheops, and he became known as a "highly independent pyramid scholar".
- His research was highly criticized by the Egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer.
- In 1971 he published L 'Enigme de la Grande Pyramide (Robert Laffont, Paris).
