100 Notable alumni of
National School of Bridges and Roads
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The National School of Bridges and Roads is 525th in the world, 195th in Europe, and 15th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National School of Bridges and Roads sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Élisabeth Borne
- Occupations
- politicianengineerofficialingénieurs et cadres techniques d'entreprise
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Élisabeth Borne is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from May 2022 to January 2024. A member of President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance, she is the second woman to hold the position of Prime Minister after Édith Cresson, who served from 1991 to 1992. Since December 2024, she has served as Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research in the Bayrou government.
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Henri Becquerel
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1874
- Occupations
- engineerchemistuniversity teacherphysicistnuclear physicist
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Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French physicist who shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pierre and Marie Curie for his discovery of radioactivity. The SI unit of radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.
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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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- university teachermathematicianengineerphysicist
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Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy FRS FRSE was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist. He was one of the first to rigorously state and prove the key theorems of calculus (thereby creating real analysis), pioneered the field complex analysis, and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra. Cauchy also contributed to a number of topics in mathematical physics, notably continuum mechanics.
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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- engineerphysicistboard memberchemistuniversity teacher
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac was a French chemist and physicist. He is known mostly for his discovery that water is made of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen by volume (with Alexander von Humboldt), for two laws related to gases, and for his work on alcohol–water mixtures, which led to the degrees Gay-Lussac used to measure alcoholic beverages in many countries.
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Guy Béart
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- singer-songwriter
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Guy Béhart-Hasson, known as Guy Béart, was a French singer and songwriter.
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Sadi Carnot
- Occupations
- civil engineerpoliticianengineerofficial
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Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
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Jean Tirole
- Occupations
- university teacherresearchereconomist
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Jean Tirole is a French economist who is currently a professor of economics at Toulouse 1 Capitole University. He focuses on industrial organization, game theory, banking and finance, and psychology. In particular, he focuses on the regulation of economic activity in a way that does not hinder innovation while maintaining fair rules. Tirole's work is largely theoretical and explored in mathematical models, not empirical research.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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- engineerphysicistcivil engineer
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, excluding any remnant of Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century. He is perhaps better known for inventing the catadioptric (reflective/refractive) Fresnel lens and for pioneering the use of "stepped" lenses to extend the visibility of lighthouses, saving countless lives at sea. The simpler dioptric (purely refractive) stepped lens, first proposed by Count Buffon and independently reinvented by Fresnel, is used in screen magnifiers and in condenser lenses for overhead projectors.
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Souphanouvong
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- politician
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Prince Souphanouvong, nicknamed the Red Prince, was along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the "Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (pro-Vietnam), neutralist and royalist political factions in Laos. He was the President of Laos from December 1975 to October 1986.
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Frédéric Lordon
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- philosopherDirector of Research at CNRSeconomistsociologist
- Biography
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Frédéric Lordon is a French economist and philosopher, CNRS Director of Research at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique in Paris. He is an influential figure in France's Nuit debout movement and has regularly contributed to French broadcast and print media on French and European politics, and also writes a regular opinion column for Le Monde diplomatique. He has argued in favour of Communism as an alternative to Capitalism in books, articles and media appearances, and has been engaged in a project of re-grounding the social sciences in a Spinoza-inspired materialism. He is considered one of the most prominent intellectual voices of the radical left in France today.
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Jean-Baptiste Debret
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- painterengineerlithographerillustrator
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Jean-Baptiste Debret was a French painter, who produced many valuable lithographs depicting the people of Brazil. Debret won the second prize at the 1798 Salon des Beaux Arts.
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Andrey Bezrukov
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1995-1997
- Occupations
- spy
- Biography
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Andrey Bezrukov, often referred to by his cover name Donald Heathfield, and Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova (Russian: Елена Вавилова), often referred to by her cover name Tracey Foley, were former KGB sleeper agents in the United States. Both had participated in the Illegals Program and were arrested in 2010. They were returned to Russia.
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Raymond Aubrac
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1934-1937
- Occupations
- engineerofficialcivil engineerwitness filmedFrench resistance fighter
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Raymond Aubrac was a member of the French Resistance in World War II. A civil engineer by trade, he assisted General Charles Delestraint within the Armée secrète. Aubrac and his wife Lucie, both communist Resistance members, were friends with Ho Chi Minh; US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger solicited his help amid the Vietnam War to establish contact with North Vietnam.
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Jean Rouch
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- directorscreenwriterphotographeranthropologistethnographer
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Jean Rouch was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.
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Agustín de Betancourt
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- inventorcivil engineermilitary engineerarchitecturban planner
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Agustín de Betancourt y Molina was a Spanish engineer, who worked in Spain, France and Russia. His work ranged from steam engines and balloons to structural engineering and urban planning. As an educator, Betancourt founded and managed the Spanish Corps of Civil Engineers and the Saint Petersburg Institute of Communications Engineers. As an urban planner and construction manager, Betancourt supervised planning and construction in Saint Petersburg, Kronstadt, Nizhny Novgorod and other Russian cities.
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Claude-Louis Navier
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- engineerphysicistengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadseconomistmathematician
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Claude-Louis Navier was a French Civil engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
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Carlos Moedas
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- engineereconomistbankerpoliticianpainter
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Carlos Manuel Félix Moedas is a Portuguese civil engineer, economist and politician of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), who is the current Mayor of Lisbon.
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1758-1760
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- botanistgeographical engineer (military cartographer)writernovelist
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel, Paul et Virginie, a very popular 18th-century classic of French literature.
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Michel Virlogeux
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- university teacherexpertstructural engineercivil engineer
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Michel Virlogeux is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist.
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Jean-Baptiste Biot
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- astronomercivil engineerphysicistprofessormathematician
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Jean-Baptiste Biot was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1810-1811
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineeruniversity teacherphysicistmathematician
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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis was a French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist. He is best known for his work on the supplementary forces that are detected in a rotating frame of reference, leading to the Coriolis effect. He was the first to apply the term travail (translated as "work") for the transfer of energy by a force acting through a distance, and he prefixed the factor ½ to Leibniz's concept of vis viva, thus specifying today's kinetic energy.
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Paul Andreu
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineerpainterwriterarchitect
- Biography
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Paul Andreu was a French architect, known for his designs of multiple airports such as Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, and multiple prestigious projects in China, including the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
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Chakib Benmoussaa
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1979-1981
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiandiplomat
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Chakib Benmoussa is a Moroccan diplomat and politician. He previously served as the interior minister of Morocco and has been the lead negotiator for the Moroccan side in the Western Sahara conflict. Since December 2012, he is serving as the Moroccan ambassador to France. Between October 7, 2021 and November 12, 2024, he had served as the education and sports minister.
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Eugène Freyssinet
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1902-1905
- Occupations
- civil engineerengineerengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsstructural engineer
- Biography
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Eugène Freyssinet was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.
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Dominique Perrault
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- architect
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Dominique Perrault is a French architect and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010 he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his work. He was named as the 2015 Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture.
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Elisenda Paluzie
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomistpolitical activist
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Elisenda Paluzie i Hernández is a Catalan economist, politician, and professor from Spain. Since 24 March 2018 she is president of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana, a Catalan independence organization. She has served as Professor of Economics at the University of Barcelona since 2001, is the director of the Centro de Análisis Económico y de las Políticas Sociales ("Center for Economic Analysis and Social Policy") there, which is integrated into the Research Institute of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team.
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Antoine Compagnon
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1973-1975
- Occupations
- writerteacherliterary critic
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Antoine Compagnon is a Professor of French Literature at Collège de France, Paris (2006–), and the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, New York City (1985–).
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Fulgence Bienvenüe
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1872-1875
- Occupations
- civil engineerarchitectengineerengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Biography
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Fulgence Bienvenüe was a French civil engineer, best known for his role in the construction of the Paris Métro, and has been called "Le Père du Métro" (Father of the Metro).
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Valérie Rabault
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- politicianingénieurs et cadres techniques d'entrepriseeconomist
- Biography
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Valérie Rabault is a French engineer and politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who has presided over the Socialists and affiliated group in the National Assembly since 2018. She has represented the 1st constituency of the Tarn-et-Garonne department in Parliament from 2012 to 2024. She was vice president of the National Assembly from 2022 to 2024.
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Ralph Modjeski
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- civil engineer
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Ralph Modjeski was a Polish-American civil engineer who achieved prominence as "America's greatest bridge builder."
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Xavier Huillard
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- engineerbusiness executive
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Xavier Huillard is a French business executive, and the chairman and CEO of Vinci SA. He has been CEO since 2006, and chairman since 2010.
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Abdelouafi Laftit
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1991
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Abdelouafi Laftit is a Moroccan politician, currently serving as Minister of the Interior since 5 April 2017.
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Henry Darcy
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- engineerspeleologistcivil engineerhydraulic engineerphysicist
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Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics, including Darcy’s law for flow in porous media.
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Ernest Malinowski
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- engineer
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Adam Stanisław Hipolit Ernest Nepomucen Malinowski was a Polish civil engineer best known for constructing the world's highest railway at the time, the Ferrovias Central, in the Peruvian Andes between 1871–1876. He participated in the Battle of Callao in 1866 and was also a corresponding member of the Polish Museum in Rapperswil Society in Switzerland.
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Mostafa Terrab
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- In 1979 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
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Mostafa Terrab is a Moroccan businessman and industrialist. He has been the chairman and chief executive officer of the Moroccan state-owned phosphate-mining company OCP since 2006. Since 2019 Terrab has also been President of the International Fertilizer Organisation. He was an adviser to the late King Hassan II and member of the G-14 think-tank, which counted figures such as Taieb Fassi-Fihri and Driss Jettou.
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Christel Heydemann
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- engineerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Christel Heydemann is a French businesswoman and the chief executive officer (CEO) of the French telecommunications company Orange S.A. since 4 April 2022.
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Louis Vicat
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- 1806-1809 graduated with engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Occupations
- engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Biography
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Louis Vicat was a French engineer.
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Fouad Laroui
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- economistscientistuniversity teacherwriterchildren's writer
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Fouad Laroui is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies at the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined the prestigious École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France), where he studied engineering. After working shortly for the Office Cherifien des Phosphates company in Khouribga (Morocco), he moved to the United Kingdom where he spent several years in Cambridge and York. Later he obtained a PhD in economics and moved to Amsterdam where he started his career as a writer. He has published about twenty books between novels, collections of short stories and essays and two collections of poetry in Dutch. He has won several literary prizes, amongst which the Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, the Prix Jean-Giono and the Grande Médaille de la littérature de l'Académie française.
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Antoine Frérot
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- engineerbusiness executivedirector
- Biography
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Antoine Frérot is a French businessman. He was Chairman and CEO of Veolia from 2009 to 2022. In July 2022, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Veolia.
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Mohamed Hassad
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1976
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Mohamed Hassad is a Moroccan engineer and politician, formerly serving as Minister of the Interior in the government of Abdelilah Benkirane. He later served as Minister of Education before being fired in 2017.
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Jacques Veyrat
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- businesspersonbusiness executive
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Jacques Veyrat is a French businessman.
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Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
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- engineerbusiness executive
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Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla was a French engineer, soldier and political lobbyist. With the assistance of American lobbyist and lawyer William Nelson Cromwell, Bunau-Varilla greatly influenced Washington's decision concerning the construction site for the Panama Canal. He worked closely with President Theodore Roosevelt in the latter's orchestration of the Panamanian Revolution, and represented Panama in the treaty negotiations leading to the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903).
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Pierre Méchain
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- engineerastronomerphysicistcartographermathematician
- Biography
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Pierre François André Méchain was a French astronomer and surveyor who, with Charles Messier, was a major contributor to the early study of deep-sky objects and comets.
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Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant
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- mathematicianengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsliterary translatorchemist
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Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. The one-dimensional Saint-Venant equation is a commonly used simplification of the shallow water equations. Although his full surname was Barré de Saint-Venant, in mathematical literature other than French he is known as Saint-Venant. His name is also associated with Saint-Venant's principle of statically equivalent systems of load, Saint-Venant's theorem and for Saint-Venant's compatibility condition, the integrability conditions for a symmetric tensor field to be a strain.
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Robert Beugré Mambé
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Beugré Mambé is an Ivorian civil engineer and politician. From 2011 to 2023, he was the governor of the Abidjan Autonomous District. He has served as the Prime Minister of Côte d'Ivoire since 17 October 2023.
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George Constantinescu
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- inventormilitary flight engineerengineer
- Biography
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George "Gogu" Constantinescu was a Romanian scientist, engineer, and inventor. During his career, he registered over 130 inventions. Constantinescu was the creator of the theory of sonics, a new branch of continuum mechanics, in which he described the transmission of mechanical energy through vibrations.
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Mustapha Bakkoury
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- In 1990 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianengineer
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Mustapha Bakkoury is a Moroccan businessman, engineer and politician. He is chairman of the board of the Moroccan Solar Energy Agency and the council president of the Casablanca-Settat region. He was born in Mohammedia, but is a native of Taounate.
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Albert Caquot
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1901-1905
- Occupations
- civil engineerphysicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Albert Irénée Caquot was a French engineer. He received the “Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)” (military honor) and was Grand-croix of the Légion d’Honneur (1951). In 1962, he was awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences from 1934 until his death in 1976.
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Henri Tresca
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1833-1835
- Occupations
- engineerphysicisthighway engineer
- Biography
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Henri Édouard Tresca was a French mechanical engineer, and a professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris.
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Joachim Barrande
- Occupations
- geologistpaleontologistbotanist
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Joachim Barrande was a French geologist and palaeontologist. He was particularly known for his work on trilobites, published in the Systéme Silurien de la Bohéme which he published in 22 parts. Trained under the school of Georges Cuvier, he opposed the evolutionary views of Charles Darwin.
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Alain Lipietz
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- civil engineerpoliticianeconomistengineer
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Alain Lipietz is a French engineer, economist and politician, a former Member of the European Parliament, and a member of the French Green Party. He has, however, been suspended from the party since 25 March 2014 and is an elected local politician in Val de Bièvre, Paris, France.
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Philippe le Bon
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- inventorchemistengineer
- Biography
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Philippe le Bon was a French engineer, born in Brachay, France.
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Charbel Nahas
- Occupations
- engineereconomistuniversity teacherpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Charbel Nahas is a Lebanese politician, economist and engineer who is the General Secretary of Citizens in a State, a political party that was established in 2016 and that has as its goal to create "a civil, democratic, fair and capable state". He is widely considered to be a Lebanese progressive whose priority has been to improve living conditions for the country's disenfranchised poor.
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Adolphe Alphand
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- engineerbotanist
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Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads. As a close associate of Baron Haussmann and later as Director of Public Works at Paris City Hall from 1871, he was instrumental in the large-scale renovation of Paris in the second half of the 19th century. In 1889, Alphand was elevated to the rank of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. In 1891, shortly before his death, he succeeded Haussmann as a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
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Jules Dupuit
- Occupations
- civil engineereconomistengineerengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Biography
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Arsène Jules Étienne Juvenal Dupuit was a French civil engineer and economist.
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Jean Ichbiah
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- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Jean David Ichbiah was a French computer scientist. From 1977 to 1983, he was the chief designer of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers.
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Hoàng Xuân Hãn
- Years
- 1909-1996 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- historianmathematician
- Biography
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Hoàng Xuân Hãn was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist. He was Minister of Education in the short-lived 1945 cabinet of historian Trần Trọng Kim and drafted and issued the first Vietnamese education program.
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Eugène Belgrand
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1831
- Occupations
- engineerengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadshistorianstructural engineertechnical director
- Biography
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Eugène Belgrand was a French engineer who made significant contributions to the modernization of the Parisian sewer system during the 19th century rebuilding of Paris. Much of Belgrand's work remains in use today.
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Gaspard de Prony
- Occupations
- inventorpoliticianuniversity teacherphysicistprofessor
- Biography
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Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He was born at Chamelet, Beaujolais, France and died in Asnières-sur-Seine, France.
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Edward Jan Habich
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1860-1863
- Occupations
- mathematicianengineer
- Biography
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Edward Jan Habich was a Polish engineer and mathematician. In 1876, he founded the National University of Engineering (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería), a renowned engineering school in Lima, Peru. He was a member of the Peruvian Geographic Society and an Honorary Citizen of Peru. In his native Poland he took part in the January Uprising against the Russian Empire in 1863.
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Louis Poinsot
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1797
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianmathematicianphysicist
- Biography
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Louis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.
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Karim Ghellab
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1990
- Occupations
- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Karim Ghellab is a Moroccan politician and current president of the Assembly of Representatives of Morocco. Between 2002 and 2011, he was Minister of Transportation and Equipment under the governments of Driss Jettou and Abbas El Fassi.
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Jean Becquerel
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jean Antoine Edmond Marie Becquerel was a French physicist, the son of Antoine-Henri Becquerel. He worked on a range of experimental physics topics including magnetic effects on the optical properties of materials, and the effects of low-temperature on magnetic susceptibility. He was among the early teachers of relativity and quantum physics in France.
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Estelle Brachlianoff
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1995-1997
- Occupations
- engineerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Estelle Brachlianoff is a French businesswoman and has been the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Veolia since 1 July 2022. She is an engineer.
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Paulin Talabot
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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Paulin Talabot was a French railway and canal engineer. Educated at the École Polytechnique, Talabot started his career building canals. Inspired by George and Robert Stephenson's steam railways in England, he built a line to transport coal from the coal mines at La Grand-Combe to the Mediterranean at Nîmes, which opened in 1839. He visited England and became friends with Robert Stephenson, with whom he surveyed a route for a Suez Canal in 1847.
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Pierre Danon
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Pierre Danon is a French entrepreneur. He currently serves on the board of directors of several companies in Europe. He is chairman of SoLocal Group in Paris and the executive chairman of Volia in Kyiv.
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Auguste Choisy
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1866
- Occupations
- art historianwriterarchitectural historiancivil engineerengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
- Biography
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Auguste Choisy was a French architectural historian and author of Histoire de l'Architecture.
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Marthe Camille Bachasson, Count of Montalivet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marthe Camille Bachasson, 3rd Count of Montalivet was a French statesman and a Peer of France.
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Antoine de Chézy
- Occupations
- engineermathematiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Antoine de Chézy, also called Antoine Chézy, was a French physicist and hydraulics engineer who contributed greatly to the study of fluid mechanics and designed a canal for the Paris water supply. He is known for developing a similarity parameter for predicting the flow characteristics of one channel based on the measurements of another, known today as the Chézy formula. The Chézy equation is a pioneering formula in the field of fluid mechanics, and was expanded and modified by Irish engineer Robert Manning in 1889 as the Manning formula. The Chézy formula concerns the velocity of water flowing through conduits and is widely celebrated for its use in open channel flow calculations. By the definition of open channel, the Chézy formula also applies to partially-full pipe flow.
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André Blondel
- Occupations
- civil engineerinventorphysicistelectrical engineer
- Biography
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André-Eugène Blondel was a French engineer and physicist. He is the inventor of the electromechanical oscillograph and a system of photometric units of measurement.
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Ernest Goüin
- Occupations
- engineerindustrialistphilanthropist
- Biography
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Ernest Goüin was a French civil engineer and industrialist. In 1846 he founded Ernest Goüin & Cie. (after 1871 Société de Construction des Batignolles); the company initially built locomotives, and diversified into bridge building and railway construction projects. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower.
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Zeev Rechter
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ze'ev Rechter was a pioneering architect of Palestine and later Israel, who designed many of Israel's iconic buildings. He migrated to Palestine from the Russian Empire. He is considered one of the three founding fathers of Israeli architecture, along with Dov Karmi and Arieh Sharon. Among his works, Rechter designed Binyanei HaUma (International Convention Center in Jerusalem), the Tel Aviv courthouse and the Mann Auditorium (together with Karmi). He introduced the use of stilt columns known as piloti in residential housing in Israel.
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Ahmed Friaa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ahmed Friaa was the Minister of the Interior of Tunisia for two weeks in January 2011, during the peak of Tunisian revolution.
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Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan
- Occupations
- Catholic priestCatholic bishop
- Biography
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Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan is a French-born Estonian Catholic prelate who has served as the first Bishop of Tallinn since 2024, after serving as Apostolic Administrator of Estonia from 2005 to 2024. He has lived and worked in Estonia since 1996 and became an Estonian citizen in 2005.
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Antoine Picon
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Antoine Picon (born 8 March 1957) is a 20th-/21st-century French professor of the History of Architecture and technology and co-director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and technology. He is member of the scientific committee of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles (ENSAV).
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Charles Deutsch
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- entrepreneurracing automobile driverengineer
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Charles Deutsch was a French aerodynamics engineer and automobile maker, founder of the brand "DB" with René Bonnet, and later of the "CD".
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Juan Carlos García Pérez de Arce
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Graduated with magister degree
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- architectpolitician
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Juan Carlos García Pérez de Arce is a Chilean architect and politician who served as Chile's Minister of Public Works from 2022 to 2023.
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Bertrand Camus
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- business executive
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Bertrand Camus is a French business executive, CEO of the water and waste management company Suez since 14 May 2019.
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Paul Séjourné
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- university teacherengineerscientistcivil engineer
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Paul Séjourné was a French engineer who specialized in the construction of large bridges from masonry, a domain in which he made some important innovations.
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Édouard Brézin
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- physicist
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Édouard Brézin is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure since 1986.
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Charles Athanase Walckenaer
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- anthropologisthistorianlibrary curatorofficialgeographer
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Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant, writer, man of letters, and scientist. He was a polymath and wrote extensively on geography, natural history, and literature. Major contributions included his multi-volume natural histories of arachnids and insects, some published in collaboration with others. He was made a baron in 1823.
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Edme-François Jomard
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- librariangeographeranthropologistexplorercartographer
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Edme-François Jomard was a French cartographer, engineer, and archaeologist. He edited the Description de L'Égypte and was a member of the Institut d'Egypte established by Napoleon. He supervised the educational and cultural mission sent to France from Egypt by Muhammad Ali of Egypt. He was a pioneer in the area of History of Cartography.
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Olivier Brousse
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- business executive
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Olivier Brousse is the CEO of the largest European landscaping company with 1 bn € of annual revenues from 6 countries. He joined in 2021. Before joining idverde he was CEO of John Laing PLC in London, an international greenfield infrastructure investor, where he led the successful IPO and grew the business internationally.
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Pierre-Simon Girard
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- engineerphysicistmathematician
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Pierre-Simon Girard was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on fluid mechanics.
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Pierre-Dominique Bazaine
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- civil engineermathematicianengineermilitary personnel
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Pierre-Dominique Bazaine was a French scientist and engineer.
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Maurice Lévy
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- inventoruniversity teacherphysicistmathematicianengineer
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Maurice Lévy was a French engineer and member of the Institut de France.
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Pierre Ossian Bonnet
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- mathematicianuniversity teacher
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Pierre Ossian Bonnet was a French mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, including the Gauss–Bonnet theorem.
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François Pachet
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- civil engineercomputer scientistartificial intelligence researchercomposeruniversity teacher
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François Pachet is a French scientist, composer and director of the Spotify Creator Technology Research Lab. Before joining Spotify he led Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He is one of the pioneers of computer music closely linked to artificial intelligence, especially in the field of machine improvisation and style modelling. He has been elected ECCAI Fellow in 2014.
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Fouad Douiri
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- engineerpolitician
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Fouad Douiri is a Moroccan politician of the Istiqlal Party. He was Minister of Energy, Mines, Water and Environment in Abdelilah Benkirane's cabinet.
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Laurent-Emmanuel Calvet
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- economist
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Laurent-Emmanuel Calvet is a French economist and a professor of finance. He is Vice President Elect of the European Finance Association.
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Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1843-1845
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- mathematiciancivil engineer
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Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors.
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Pierre Massé
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1917-1920
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- economistengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
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Pierre Benjamin Daniel Massé was a French economist, engineer, applied mathematician, and high official in the French government.
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Henri-Émile Bazin
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- engineercivil engineer
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Henri-Émile Bazin, also known as Henry Bazin, was a French engineer specializing in hydraulic engineering, and whose main contributions relate to the systematic study of free surface flows and the measurement of flows (gauging).
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Charles Ellet, Jr
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- engineermilitary personnelcivil engineer
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Charles Ellet Jr. was an American civil engineer from Pennsylvania who designed and constructed major canals, suspension bridges and railroads. He designed and supervised construction of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, the longest suspension bridge in the world, from 1849 to 1851. He conducted the first Federal survey of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers as part of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers.
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Franz Heukamp
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- engineereconomist
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Franz Heukamp is the dean of IESE Business School and has held this post since 2016. He is also business management scholar and Professor of Managerial Decision Sciences at IESE Business School, University of Navarra.
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Yoelle Maarek
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- computer scientist
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Yoelle Maarek is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist. She is the Chief Research of AI/IR for the Technology Innovation Institute. She was the Vice President of Worldwide Research at Amazon, responsible for Amazon's Alexa Shopping Research. Maarek is a researcher in the field of search engines and data mining, and a former vice president at Yahoo! (Yahoo! Labs) and Director of Yahoo! in Israel and in India. Maarek was the first engineer of Google Israel and established the first development center in Haifa in 2006.
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Jean-Baptiste-Charles-Joseph Bélanger
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- engineerphysicistmathematician
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Jean-Baptiste Charles Joseph Bélanger was a French applied mathematician who worked in the areas of hydraulics and hydrodynamics. He was a professor at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in France. In hydraulic engineering, he is often credited improperly for the application of the momentum principle to a hydraulic jump in a rectangular open channel in 1828. His true contribution in 1828 was the development of the backwater equation for gradually varied flows in open channels (Bélanger 1828) and the application of the momentum principle to the hydraulic jump flow in 1838. (Bélanger 1841)
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Nikolaos Balanos
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- architectcivil engineer
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Nikolaos Balanos was a Greek architect. He is best known for his controversial anastylosis (restoration) of monuments on the Acropolis of Athens between 1894 and 1939.
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Émile Cheysson
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1857-1859
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- engineercartographerstatistician
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Jean Jacques Émile Cheysson was a French engineer, designer of roads and bridges, and social reformer, who made a career as in industry and in the French administration. He has played an important role in the institutionalization of statistics in France, and has published a series of graphic statistical albums for the French Ministry of Public Works, which are considered as extraordinary examples of data visualization. At the same time, he was a disciple of Frédéric Le Play and resumed sociological work and his monographic method.
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Robert Calcagno
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- politician
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Robert Calcagno born 26 June 1960 is a Monegasque politician and leader who is CEO of the Oceanographic Institute Foundation Albert I, Prince of Monaco. Robert Calcagno has held ministerial posts in the government of the Principality of Monaco between 2006 and 2009. He now leads the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco and the Maison des océans in Paris His commitment to the protection of the oceans, to a better balance between Humankind and Nature and, on a broader level, his involvement in the economic, social and international life of the Principality of Monaco, have made him one of the key players in the policies of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco.
