100 Notable alumni of
National School of Bridges and Roads
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The National School of Bridges and Roads is 529th in the world, 197th 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
- politicianengineerofficial
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Élisabeth Borne is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2022 to 2024. She is a member of President Emmanuel Macron's party Renaissance. Borne is the second woman to hold the position of Prime Minister after Édith Cresson, who served from 1991 to 1992.
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Henri Becquerel
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1874
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherchemistengineernuclear physicist
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Antoine Henri Becquerel was a French engineer, physicist, Nobel laureate, and the first person to discover radioactivity. For work in this field he, along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after him.
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
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- university teacherchemistboard memberphysicistengineer
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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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Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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- physicistengineermathematicianuniversity teacher
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Baron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician, engineer, and physicist who made pioneering contributions to several branches of mathematics, including mathematical analysis and continuum mechanics. He was one of the first to state and rigorously prove theorems of calculus, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra of earlier authors. He is one of the founders of complex analysis and the study of permutation groups in abstract algebra.
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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
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- engineerpoliticiancivil engineerofficial
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Marie François Sadi Carnot was a French statesman, who served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894.
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Jean Tirole
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- economistuniversity teacher
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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.
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Augustin-Jean Fresnel
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- physicistengineercivil 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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Frédéric Lordon
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 62)
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- economistDirector of Research at CNRSphilosophersociologist
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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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Souphanouvong
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- politician
- Biography
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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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Jean-Baptiste Debret
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- lithographerengineerpainterillustrator
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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
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Andrey Bezrukov, often referred to by his cover name Donald Heathfield, is a former KGB sleeper agent. He had served as both a KGB and SVR operative until his disclosure in the United States in 2010. His wife, Elena Stanislavovna Vavilova (Russian: Елена Вавилова), often referred to by her cover name Tracey Foley, is also a former KGB sleeper agent.
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Jean Rouch
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- ethnographeranthropologistphotographerscreenwriterdirector
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Jean Rouch was a French filmmaker and anthropologist.
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Raymond Aubrac
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1934-1937
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- French Resistance fighterwitness filmedBelgian professional football awardsengineercivil engineer
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Raymond Aubrac was a leader of the French Resistance during the Second World War and a civil engineer after the World War II.
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Agustín de Betancourt
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- civil engineerinventorurban plannerarchitectmilitary engineer
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Agustín de Betancourt y Molina was a prominent 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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Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1810-1811
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teachercivil engineerengineermathematician
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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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Claude-Louis Navier
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- economistengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsphysicistengineercivil engineer
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Claude-Louis Navier was a French mechanical engineer, affiliated with the French government, and a physicist who specialized in continuum mechanics.
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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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- novelistwritergeographical engineer (military cartographer)botanist
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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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Carlos Moedas
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- international forum participanteconomistpainterbankerpolitician
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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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Michel Virlogeux
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1970
- Occupations
- expertuniversity teachercivil engineerstructural engineer
- Biography
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Michel Virlogeux FREng CorrFRSE is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist.
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Jean-Baptiste Biot
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- mathematicianprofessorphysicistcivil engineerastronomer
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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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Paul Andreu
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- writerpaintercivil engineerengineerarchitect
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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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Elisenda Paluzie
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherpolitical 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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Eugène Freyssinet
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1902-1905
- Occupations
- engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsengineercivil engineerstructural 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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Chakib Benmoussaa
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1979-1981
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianengineer
- Biography
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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. On October 7,2021 he was appointed as the education and sports minister.
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Fulgence Bienvenüe
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1872-1875
- Occupations
- engineerarchitectcivil engineerengineer 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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Antoine Compagnon
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1973-1975
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticteacher
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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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Valérie Rabault
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- economistpolitician
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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 since 2012.
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Xavier Huillard
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- business executiveengineer
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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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- physicisthydraulic engineercivil engineerspeleologistengineer
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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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Louis Vicat
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- 1806-1809 graduated with engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
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- engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsengineer
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Louis Vicat was a French engineer.
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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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Fouad Laroui
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- children's writerwriteruniversity teacherscientisteconomist
- Biography
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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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Mostafa Terrab
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- In 1979 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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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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Antoine Frérot
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- engineerbusiness executiveinternational forum participantdirector
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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
- politicianengineer
- 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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Christel Heydemann
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1999
- Occupations
- business executiveengineerinternational forum participant
- 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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Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla
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- business executiveengineer
- Biography
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Philippe-Jean Bunau-Varilla was a French engineer and soldier. 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 also worked closely with President Theodore Roosevelt in the latter's orchestration of the Panamanian Revolution.
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Jacques Veyrat
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- business executivebusinessperson
- Biography
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Jacques Veyrat is a French businessman.
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Sid Ahmed Ghozali
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Sid Ahmed Ghozali is an Algerian politician who was the Prime Minister of Algeria from 1991 to 1992.
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Mustapha Bakkoury
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- In 1990 graduated with diplôme d'ingénieur
- Occupations
- engineerinternational forum participantpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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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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Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant
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- engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsmathematicianchemistliterary translator
- Biography
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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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Henri Tresca
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1833-1835
- Occupations
- highway engineerphysicistengineer
- 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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George Constantinescu
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- aerospace engineerinventorengineer
- 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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Albert Caquot
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1901-1905
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicistcivil engineer
- 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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Joachim Barrande
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- paleontologistgeologistbotanist
- Biography
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Joachim Barrande was a French geologist and palaeontologist.
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Alain Lipietz
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- engineereconomistpoliticiancivil engineer
- Biography
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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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Charbel Nahas
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianuniversity teachereconomistengineer
- 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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Philippe le Bon
- Occupations
- chemistinventorengineer
- Biography
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Philippe le Bon was a French engineer, born in Brachay, France.
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Adolphe Alphand
- Occupations
- botanistengineer
- Biography
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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
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- engineereconomistcivil engineerengineer 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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- engineercomputer scientist
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Jean David Ichbiah was a French computer scientist and the initial chief designer (1977–1983) of Ada, a general-purpose, strongly typed programming language with certified validated compilers.
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Robert Beugré Mambé
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- 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 16 October 2023.
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Hoàng Xuân Hãn
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- 1909-1996 (aged 87)
- Occupations
- mathematicianhistorian
- 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
- technical directorstructural engineerhistorianengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadsengineer
- 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
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- scientistcivil engineertranslatorprofessorphysicist
- 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
- engineermathematician
- 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
- physicistmathematicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- 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
- politicianengineerinternational forum participant
- 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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Pierre Danon
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Pierre Danon is a French entrepreneur. He currently sits on the board of directors of several companies in Europe. He is chairman of SoLocal Group in Paris. He is also the executive chairman of Volia in Kyiv.
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Paulin Talabot
- Occupations
- engineerrailway engineerpoliticianentrepreneur
- 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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Auguste Choisy
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1866
- Occupations
- university teacherengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadscivil engineerarchitectural historianwriter
- 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
- engineercivil engineermathematician
- 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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Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan
- Occupations
- Catholic bishopCatholic priest
- Biography
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Philippe Jean-Charles Jourdan is a prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Apostolic Administrator of Estonia since 2005.
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André Blondel
- Occupations
- physicistinventorcivil engineerelectrical 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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Estelle Brachlianoff
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1995-1997
- Occupations
- business executiveengineer
- 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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Ernest Goüin
- Occupations
- industrialistengineerphilanthropist
- 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 Mandate Palestine and Israel, who designed many of Israel's iconic buildings. 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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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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Bertrand Camus
- Occupations
- business executiveinternational forum participant
- Biography
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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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Charles Deutsch
- Occupations
- racing automobile driverentrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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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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Édouard Brézin
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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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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Juan Carlos García Pérez de Arce
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Graduated with magister degree
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
- Biography
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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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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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Charles Athanase Walckenaer
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- novelistnaturalistentomologistgeographerofficial
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Baron Charles Athanase Walckenaer was a French civil servant and scientist.
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Paul Séjourné
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- engineeruniversity teachercivil engineerscientist
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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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Edme-François Jomard
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- egyptologistarchaeologistcartographerexploreranthropologist
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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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Pierre-Simon Girard
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- physicistengineermathematician
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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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- military personnelengineermathematiciancivil engineer
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Pierre-Dominique Bazaine was a French scientist and engineer.
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Maurice Lévy
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- physicistuniversity teacherinventorengineermathematician
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Maurice Lévy was a French engineer and member of the Institut de France.
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François Pachet
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- university teachercomposerartificial intelligence researchercomputer scientistcivil engineer
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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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Pierre Ossian Bonnet
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- university teachermathematician
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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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Fouad Douiri
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- politicianengineer
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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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Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1843-1845
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- civil engineermathematician
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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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Henri-Émile Bazin
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- civil engineerengineer
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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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Pierre Massé
- Enrolled in the National School of Bridges and Roads
- Studied in 1917-1920
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- engineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roadseconomist
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Pierre Benjamin Daniel Massé was an economist, engineer, applied mathematician, and high official in the French government.
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Franz Heukamp
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- economistengineer
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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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Charles Ellet, Jr
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- military personnelengineercivil 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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Yoelle Maarek
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- computer scientist
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Yoelle Maarek is a Tunisian-born Israeli computer scientist. She is 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! 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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- physicistengineermathematician
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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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- civil engineerarchitect
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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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Louis Alexandre de Cessart
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- civil engineerengineerarchitectengineer of the French Corps of Bridges and Roads
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Louis-Alexandre de Cessart was a French road and bridge engineer.
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Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois
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- egyptologistanthropologistengineer
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Jean-Baptiste Prosper Jollois was a French engineer who together with Édouard de Villiers du Terrage journeyed with Napoleon to Egypt, and prepared the Description de l'Égypte.
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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.
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Louis de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire
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- officialhistorianpoliticiandiplomat
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Louis-Clair de Beaupoil comte de Saint-Aulaire was a French politician.
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Jean François Mayor de Montricher
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- engineer
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Jean François Mayor de Montricher was a Swiss engineer. He designed the Roquefavour Aqueduct, near Aix-en-Provence in France, and drained the Fucine Lake in Central Italy.
