List of Arts et Métiers ParisTech alumni
This is a list of notable people affiliated with the Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Alumni of the Arts et Métiers ParisTech are traditionally called Gadzarts.
Famous Gadzarts by field
[edit]"NH Prize" means that the person was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize. [1] There at least two other prizes called Nessim Habif, from Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and University of Geneva.[2] Nessim Habif was born in Turkey. He was trained as an Arts et Métiers engineer, in Lille, and graduated in 1903, with a successful career in the Egyptian sugar industry.[3][4]
Armament industry
[edit]- Désiré Legat - Châlons, 1853: production of guns
- Ingénieur Robin - Châlons, 1867: created the modern 75mm gun shell
- Albert Oberhauser - Châlons, 1890: achieved the mass production of 100,000 rockets a day
Automotive industry
[edit]- Émile Delahaye - Angers, 1859: first to use pumps for water circulation
- Charles Trépardoux - Angers, 1868: first steam tricycle
- Charles Brasier - Châlons, 1880: car with stiff frame and effective shock absorbers
- Louis Delâge - Angers, 1890: luxury car maker
- Louis Coatalen - Cluny, 1895: contributed to the famous "Liberty" engine that equipped the US Army trucks during World War I
- Sébastien Iglesis - Aix, 1896
- Henri Perrot - Châlons, 1899
- François Castaing - Paris, 1964: recognized as a visionary change agent who helped transform the automotive industry
Aviation
[edit]- Alexandre Goupil - Angers, 1859: first helix for airplanes
- Lucien Chauvière - Angers, 1891: known for aircraft propeller designs
- Charles Cormont - Angers, 1895: built 40 dirigible balloons
- Louis Béchereau - Angers, 1896: first airplane to reaches a speed of 200 km/h; creator of the famous World War I SPAD air fighter (Guynemer's Vieux Charles), 13,000 of which were built
- Léon Lemartin - Aix-en-Provence, 1902: co-designer of the Gnome Omega rotary aero-engine, pioneer aviator for Bleriot, world record holder
- Antoine Odier - Aix, 1909: created the Odier Vendôme biplane and constructed a twin-engined seaplane with ballcocks
- René Couzinet - Angers, 1921: built his famous Arc-en-Ciel, which flew Paris to Buenos-Aires in 2 days and 15 hours
- Pierre Nadot - Paris, 1924: first flight of the Caravelle
- Georges Gutman - Cluny, 1943: creator of the EROS oxygen mask for civil aviation; inventor of a pneumatic harness for the fast use of the mask in flight; Nessim Habif Prize
- Jean Pinet - Angers, 1946: first person to take Concorde supersonic
Railway
[edit]- Jean-Jacques Meyer - Châlons, 1823: a variable relaxation system for steam engines[5]
- Alexandre Desroches - Angers, 1829: railway in Russia
- Edmond Roy - Angers, 1837: railway of the Andes
- Nicole Laroche (née Schrottenloher) - Lille, 1964: first female Gadzarts, worked on railway carriage air conditioning.
- François Michel - Châlons, 1847: built the first sleepers, in Moscow, for the Saint Petersburg-Moscow line
- Raymond Garde - Paris, 1939: one of the fathers of the High Speed Train (TGV)
Printing Industry
[edit]- Charles Catala - Châlons, 1839: Manufacture of straw paper mass
- Joseph Heusse - Châlons, 1842: enhancements of printing machines
- Abel Boisseau - Angers, 1856: with Marioni, he created the rotary presses
- Louis Moyroud - Cluny, 1933: Nessim Habif Prize; with René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944; member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame
Navy
[edit]- Claude Goubet - Angers, 1843: first French submarine
- Charles Marzari - Châlons, 1861 and Albert Dufont - Châlons, 1865: navy turrets
- Joseph Barguillet - Angers, 1862: the first of a long line of Arts & Métiers general mechanics engineer; ranked as an admiral
- Jules Tessier - some other person than the Canadian lawyer Jules Tessier - Angers, 1887: warships, the Gerfaut, the Terrible, world speed records
Mechanics - electricity
[edit]- Henri Flaud - Angers 1830: fire pumps
- Émile Lecoq - Châlons, 1839: specialist of printing and numbering machines
- Lucien Arbel - Aix, 1843: metallurgy, machines
- Amédée Buquet - Angers 1846: excavators for hard stones
- Ignace Schabaver - Châlons, 1850: centrifugal pumps (see also Le Rialet)
- Léandre Megy - Aix, 1851: lifting and handling, brakes
- Émile Cail - Châlons, 1855: founded the Fives-Lille company
- Eugène Daguin - Châlons, 1865: the Daguin stamping machine
- René Guillery - Châlons, 1883: production control machines
- Alphonse Pégard - Châlons, 1885: production machines
- Claude Gambin - Châlons, 1900: milling machines
- Henri Bruet - Lille, 1904: Cazeneuve lathes
- Marius Lavet - Cluny, 1910: NH Prize; electric and electronic clocks (quartz watches)
- Jean Dutheil - Aix, 1916: NH Prize; advanced techniques for metal made buildings
- Pierre Bézier - Paris, 1927: NH Prize; machine tools for mass production (robots); inventor of computer aided design and Bézier curve[6]
- Raymond Pailloux - Châlons, 1927: developed the integrated circuit technique
- Marcel Sédille - Paris, 1928: gas and steam turbines
- Georges Henriot - Lille, 1938: kinematics of the gears
Textile industry
[edit]- Frédéric Quinson - Aix, 1847: invented a woolcombing machine for silk scrap
Public infrastructures industry
[edit]- Jean-Baptiste Monnier - Châlons, 1828: first sugar plant in the Nile valley
- François Barbarin - Angers, 1844: Bizerte and Tabarka harbours, Gaza phosphates
- Henri Diedrich - Angers, 1844: phosphates plant in Krourigba
- Dominique Berjeaut - Aix, 1844: Danube navigation
- Amédée Buquet - Angers, 1846: mechanical excavator for hard stone boring
- Alponse Pellerin - Châlons, 1849 and Louis Pellerin - Angers, 1875: bridges, tunnels, deep water foundations
- Ernest Fouquet - Châlons, 1849: Trotzki bridge on the Neva river in Petrograd
- Louis Bret - Angers, 1852: viaducts in Cratellauk, Fiaccati
- Vincent Dauzats - Angers, 1856: Suez, Panama and Corinth canals
- Félix Faraud - Aix, 1862: close counselor of the Cambodia king, discovered many Khmer people monuments
- Alfred Letort - Châlons, 1868: sugar plants, refineries in Egypt
- Ernest Laigle - Châlons, 1871: Mexico City, Vera-Cruz bridge
- Louis Viriot - Châlons, 1872: Tunis, Sousse and Sfax harbours
- Léon Chagnaud - Châlons, 1881: subway under the Seine river, Rove tunnel, Eguzon stopping, Donzère-Mondragon plant
- Charles Vieille - Châlons, 1912: water stopping on the Niger river in Sansanding
- Nicolas Esquillan - Châlons, 1919: NH Prize; arch of the CNIT building, Tancarville Bridge, reinforced concrete in thin shells
- Jean Roret - Paris, 1942: Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, Rouen and Sèvres bridges, Eiffel Tower handing-over to the standards, building of the Maine-Montparnasse tower
- Henri Delauze - Aix, 1946: Nessim Habif Prize; very deep sea diving; founder and CEO of the Comex company
Miscellaneous (sorted by center of origin)
[edit]Compiègne
[edit]- Joseph Meifred - Compiègne-Châlons-en-Champagne, 1801: cornist, pedagogue, horn designer; studied at the Paris Conservatory; based the Society of Arts et Métiers alumni in 1846
Aix-en-Provence
[edit]- Henri Jus - Aix, 1847: geologist, master in the art of probing the ground; dedicated 44 years of his life to transforming the Sahara desert; by doing this, he saved the Oued Rihr oasis and created around 500 water sources, yielding a total of 250 000 m3/min; created many oases; named "ßou el Ma » (the father of water) by the Saharan people
- Henri Verneuil - Aix, 1940: Nessim Habif Prize; French film maker
Angers
[edit]- Jacques Bonsergent - Angers, 1930: accidentally involved in a scuffle with German soldiers in 1940; arrested by mistake, he refused to denounce his companions; sentenced to death by a German military tribunal and became the first shot person in Paris, on December 23, 1940 at age 28; his name was given to a subway station in Paris in 1946
Châlons-en-Champagne
[edit]- Eugène Houdry - Châlons, 1908: dedicated his life to the development of oil processing techniques; invented several new processes and created 14 big catalytic cracking units; files more than 600 patents; thanks to the higher energetic power of his gasoline, Allied war planes proved superior to their opponents during World War II
Cluny
[edit]- Pierre Angénieux - Cluny, 1925: NH Prize; high quality camera and cinema lenses; built cameras for space flights; awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Award
References
[edit]- ^ List of famous alumni on the alumni's official website (FR)
- ^ "Alois Fürstner receives the Prix Mondial Nessim-Habif in Geneva". kofo.mpg.de. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "INNOGAP - Proof-of-Principle Fund - Unitec". University of Geneva. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
- ^ "Financial statements 2022". unesdoc.unesco.org. 2023. p. 46.
In accordance with the financial regulation concerning the Nessim Habif Fund (61 EX/38) and Organization's Investment Policy, the investment portfolio of the Nessim Habif Trust Fund is invested in bonds and a Corporate Bond ETF.
- ^ "Historique du centre - les gadzarts de renom". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
- ^ "Les gadz'arts".
