GENISSIEU

FRANCE (see also List of Individuals)

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26.9.1885 Paris/F - 3.7.1950 Paris/F

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Etienne Genissieu graduated as a civil engineer from Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées once having completed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He was transferred to Dunkerque as a design engineer and then joined the Colonial Ministry for which he made a mission to Hanoi at the beginning of World War I. He participated in the War as a lieutenant at Thessaloniki during three years for which he was awarded Officer of Légion d'Honneur. He stayed in Colmar until 1923 and then was appointed chief engineer of the French Central Hydropower Service in the Public Works Ministry, from where he retired as an Ingénieur Général after World War II.

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Genissieu's merit was his complete reorganization of the statistical features of French hydropower, thereby accounting for the production and the consumption of electricity. He was a Lecturer at Ecole des Travaux Publics, where he prepared his 1948 book. Another hydrology book was practically completed by 1950 but destroyed by a fire in his house in Southern France shortly before his death. Genissieu was in 1935 a founder and then a Member of the editorial board of the French journal Revue Générale de l'Hydraulique that was intended as a counterweight to La Houille Blanche but disappeared in the early 1960s once IAHRs Journal of Hydraulic Research was initiated which accepted articles both in English and in French. Also, Genissieu was a Member of the Scientific Commission of Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique, then headed by Jean Laurent (1888-1982). He further was the Honorary President of the Section Civil Engineering and Conduits of Société Hydrotechnique de France SHF.

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_{Degove, M., Genissieu, E. (1946). Utilisation des forces hydrauliques: Etudes générales et installations de chutes. Eyrolles: Paris.}

_{Genissieu, E. (1927). Organisation des Services de jaugeages et application à l'utilisation des forces hydrauliques. IAHS Bulletin 8: 29-51.}

_{Genissieu, E. (1938). Electricité en Grande-Bretagne. Annales Ponts et Chaussées 108: 155-198. Genissieu, E. (1948). Cours de centrales hydrauliques. Ecole Nationales Supérieure des Télécommunications: Paris.}

_{Laurent, J. (1950). M. Etienne Genissieu. Revue Générale de l'Hydraulique 58: 171-172. P}

_{Martonne, E. de (1951). E. Genissieu. La Houille Blanche 6(A): 222.}

_{Service Documentaire (2003). Etienne Genissieu. Personal communication. ENPC: Paris.}

_{Tésar, V., Belaevski, V. de, Mesnager, A., Genissieu, E. (1926). Recherches expérimentales au moyen de modèles réduits de barrages triangulaires. Paris.}