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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]

Armament industry edit

Automotive industry edit

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; NH prize
  • Jean Pinet - Angers, 1946: first person to take Concorde supersonic

Railway edit

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: NH Prize; with René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944; member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame

Navy edit

Mechanics - electricity edit

Textile industry edit

Public infrastructures industry edit

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: NH 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

References edit

  1. ^ List of famous alumni on the alumni's official website (FR)
  2. ^ "Historique du centre - les gadzarts de renom". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  3. ^ "Les gadz'arts".
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