Biography:Geneviève Comte-Bellot
Geneviève Comte-Bellot | |
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| Born | 29 July 1929 |
| Awards | Commander of the Legion of Honour (2013) Fluid Dynamics Prize (APS) (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Fluid dynamics |
| Institutions | École centrale de Lyon |
Geneviève Comte-Bellot (born 29 July 1929) is a French physicist specialising in fluid dynamics. She is known for her work on turbulence and aeroacoustics.
Biography
Comte-Bellot was born on 29 July 1929.[1] After obtaining her diploma from the Université Grenoble Alpes in 1953, she earned her master's degree at the École normale supérieure in Paris the following year.[2] She taught at a high school in Chalon-sur-Saône from 1954 to 1956, before joining the French National Center for Scientific Research as a Senior Research Associate; Comte-Bellot remained in this position until 1967.[1] In 1963, Comte-Bellot completed her dissertation "Turbulent Flow between two parallel walls", and was awarded a PhD by the Université Grenoble Alpes.[2] She became a postdoctoral researcher and joined Stanley Corrsin's team at Johns Hopkins University as a Fulbright scholar in 1963, where she oversaw his "Velvet wind-tunnel".[1][2]
Comte-Bellot joined the École centrale de Lyon (ECL) in 1967 as a Maître de Conférences (lecturer) and became a professor in 1971, before her promotion to Professeur de Classe exceptionnelle in 1982.[1] At this university, she began researching aeroacoustics[2] and founded the acoustics department in 1980. She served as director of the training and research unit (UER) of mechanics at Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 from 1977 to 1982.[1] On 2 April 1990, Comte-Bellot was appointed as a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences.[3] Following her retirement, she became emeritus professor at the ECL in 1998.[1]
In 2005, Comte-Bellot was appointed as a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions in fluid mechanics and acoustics.[4] She is also a member of the French Academy of Technologies.[2]
She was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honour in 2013.[5] The American Physical Society awarded her with their Fluid Dynamics Prize in 2014.[2]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Geneviève Comte-Bellot" (in French). French Academy of Technologies. https://www.academie-technologies.fr/members/118-genevi%C3%A8ve-comte-bellot. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Recipient: Genevieve Comte-Bellot". American Physical Society. 2014. https://www.aps.org/units/dfd/awards/recipient.cfm?first_nm=Genevieve&last_nm=Comte-Bellot&year=2014. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ↑ "Geneviève Comte-Bellot" (in French). French Academy of Sciences. http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences-/-C/genevieve-comte-bellot.html. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ↑ "Celebrating Manufacturing Technology". The Bridge (National Academy of Engineering) 35 (1): 47. Spring 2005. https://www.nae.edu/File.aspx?id=7297. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ↑ "Geneviève Comte-Bellot commandeur de la Légion d'honneur" (in French). École centrale de Lyon. 21 February 2013. https://www.ec-lyon.fr/actualites/2013/genevieve-comte-bellot-commandeur-legion-honneur. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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