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Jules Andrade

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Jules Andrade (1857 - 1933)

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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "Séance du 19 décembre". Le Moniteur Scientifique du Docteur Quesneville: 47–48. February 1905.
  2. ^ Léon Lecornu: Notice nécrologique sur Jules Andrade. In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences (1933), T196(12), p. 56.
  3. ^ G. A. Berner: Illustriertes Fachlexikon der Uhrmacherei, Stichwort Andrade, Jules
  4. ^ Jules Andrade auf Watch-Wiki.org
  5. ^ Andrade, J. (1909). "Sur une nouvelle méthode de mesure des frottements" (PDF). In G. Castelnuovo (ed.). Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale dei Matematici (Roma, 6–11 Aprile 1908). Vol. 3. pp. 79–80. hathitrust link