Charles Louis Sadron (12 May 1902 – 5 September 1993), was a French physicist who specialized in the study of biological macromolecules.
[1][2] Sadron was born in Cluis and studied at the University of Poitiers and later obtained a teaching position at Lycée Kléber in Strasbourg.
While teaching at the high school, he obtained his PhD in 1932 at the University of Strasbourg on the magnetic properties of metals under the supervision of Pierre Weiss.
Sadron was the first laureate of the Holweck Prize, given by the British Institute of Physics in 1946.
[4] In 1985, the CRM and the École d'Application des Hauts Polymères (EAHP, School of Application of High Polymers) were merged into the Institut Charles Sadron (ICS).