Biography:Jules Andrade
Jules Frédéric Charles Andrade (4 September 1857, Paris – 25 February 1933, Brighton near Cayeux-sur-Mer) was a French physicist, mathematician and horologist. He won the Poncelet Prize for 1917.[1]
Career
After graduation from l’École polytechnique and military service in the artillery, he became a professor at the University of Rennes and later at the University of Montpellier.[2] On 3 June 1899 he was an expert witness for Alfred Dreyfus in the famous trial during the Dreyfus Affair. He was a professor for 26 years at the Institut de Chronométrie at the University of Besançon. Andrade did research related to mechanical clocks.[3][4]
Andrade was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1897 at Zürich, in 1904 at Heidelberg, in 1908 at Rome,[5] and in 1924 at Toronto.
Works
- Chronométrie (1908)
- Le mouvement, les mesures du temps et de l'étendue (1911)
- Les organes réglants des chronomètres (1920)
- Horlogerie et chronométrie (1924)
- Mécanique Physique, Nabu Press, Reprint 2010, ISBN:978-1148526980
- Leçons de Mécanique Physique, Nabu Press, Reprint 2010, ISBN:978-1142270735
- La géometrie naturelle en deux livres
References
- ↑ "Séance du 19 décembre". Le Moniteur Scientifique du Doctor Quesneville: 47–48. February 1905. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c2557147;view=1up;seq=55.
- ↑ Léon Lecornu: Notice nécrologique sur Jules Andrade. In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences (1933), T196(12), p. 56.
- ↑ G. A. Berner: Illustriertes Fachlexikon der Uhrmacherei, Stichwort Andrade, Jules
- ↑ Jules Andrade auf Watch-Wiki.org
- ↑ Andrade, J. (1909). "Sur une nouvelle méthode de mesure des frottements". in G. Castelnuovo. Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). vol. 3. pp. 79–80. http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1908.3/Main/icm1908.3.0079.0080.ocr.pdf. hathitrust link
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