ESCLANGON

FRANCE (see also List of Individuals)

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10.1.1905 Manosque/F - 6.5.1956 Paris/F

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The shock was great when the news on Félix Esclangon's tragic death during a lecture at the Faculté des Sciences spread because a great scientist and teacher had disappeared unexpectedly. Esclangon graduated in 1926 from Ecole Normale Supérieure as a physicist and continued as a Lecturer at Lille University first, then moved in 1941 to Grenoble as professor of electronics and finally was appointed in 1945 director of its Institut Polytechnique. During his term, the Grenoble area expanded to the most important for development of hydraulic engineering thereby having a significant support from private industries. Esclangon was attributed significant merits for collaboration between scientific and practical hydraulic engineering, thereby contributing to the economical growth of his country.

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Esclangon was appointed director of the Institut d'Energétique Appliqué at Sorbonne, Paris and headed also the Laboratory of the Electrical Industries at Fontenay-aux-Roses. During a demonstration for his students, Esclangon was killed by an electric shock of 40,000 Volts. Today, a Lycée Félix Esclangon in the French Alps, a Street named after him in Grenoble and the Esclangon Laboratory at Paris' Université VI keep alive the name of a great engineer. His name is remembered here not really for particular achievements in hydraulic engineering but for his constant and successful support of this branch in France.

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