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List of Arts et Métiers ParisTech alumni

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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

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"NH Prize" means that the person was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize [fr]. [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

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Automotive industry

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Aviation

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  • 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 [fr]
  • Jean Pinet - Angers, 1946: first person to take Concorde supersonic

Railway

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Printing Industry

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  • 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 [fr]; with René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944; member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame
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Mechanics - electricity

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Textile industry

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Public infrastructures industry

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Miscellaneous (sorted by center of origin)

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Compiègne

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  • 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

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  • 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 [fr]; French film maker

Angers

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  • 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

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  • 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

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References

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  1. ^ List of famous alumni on the alumni's official website (FR)
  2. ^ "Alois Fürstner receives the Prix Mondial Nessim-Habif in Geneva". kofo.mpg.de. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  3. ^ "INNOGAP - Proof-of-Principle Fund - Unitec". University of Geneva. 10 August 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  4. ^ "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.
  5. ^ "Historique du centre - les gadzarts de renom". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2014-03-08.
  6. ^ "Les gadz'arts".