List of Arts et Métiers ParisTech alumni

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This is a list of notable people affiliated with the Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Alumni of the Arts et Métiers ParisTech are traditionally called Gadzarts.

Famous Gadzarts by fields

« NH Prize » means that the person was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize [1]

Armament industry

Automotive industry

Aviation

  • Alexandre Goupil - Angers, 1859 : first helix for airplanes
  • Lucien Chauvière - Angers, 1891 : known for the designs of his aircraft propellers.
  • Charles Cormont - Angers, 1895 : builds 40 dirigible balloons.
  • Louis Béchereau - Angers, 1896 : first airplane to reaches a speed of 200 km/h. Creator of the famous World War I SPAD air fighter (Guynemer's « Vieux Charles »); 13,000 of which were built.
  • Antoine Odier - Aix, 1909 : creates the « Odier Vendôme » biplane and constructs a twin-engined seaplane with ballcocks.
  • René Couzinet - Angers, 1921 : builds his famous « Arc-en-Ciel » that flies Paris to Buenos-Aires in 2 days and 15 hours.
  • Léon Lemartin - Aix-en-Provence, 1902, co-designer of the Gnome Omega rotary aero-engine, pioneer aviator for Bleriot, world record holder.
  • Pierre Nadot - Paris, 1924 : first flight of the « Caravelle ».
  • Georges Gutman - Cluny, 1943 : creator of the EROS oxygen mask for civil aviation; inventor of a pneumatic harness for the fast use of the mask in flight. NH prize.

Railway

  • Jean Meyer - Châlons, 1823 : A variable relaxation system for steam engines[2]
  • Alexandre Desroches - Angers, 1829 : Railway in Russia
  • Edmond Roy - Angers, 1837 : Railway of the Andes
  • François Michel - Châlons, 1847 : Built the first sleepers, in Moscow, for the Saint Petersburg-Moscow line.
  • Raymond Garde - Paris, 1939 : One of the fathers of the High Speed Train (TGV).

Printing Industry

  • Charles Catala - Châlons, 1839 : Manufacture of straw paper mass.
  • Joseph Heusse - Châlons, 1842 : enhancements of printing machines.
  • Abel Boisseau - Angers, 1856 : With Marioni, he creates the rotary presses.
  • Louis Moyroud - Cluny, 1933 : (NH Prize). With René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944. (...). Member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame.

Navy

Mechanics - Electricity

Textile industry

Public infrastructures industry

Miscellaneous (sorted by center of origin)

Compiègne

  • Joseph Meifred - Compiègne-Châlons-en-Champagne, 1801 : he was a cornist, a pedagogue, and a horn designer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, and based the Society of Arts et Métiers alumni, in 1846.

Aix-en-Provence

  • Henri Jus - Aix, 1847 : geologist, master in the art of probing the ground, he dedicates 44 years of his life to transforming the Sahara desert. Doing this, he saves the Oued Rihr oasis and creates aroung 500 water sources, yelding a total of 250 000 m3/min. Creator of many oasises, he is named « ßou el Ma » (the father of water) by the saharian people.
  • Henri Verneuil - Aix, 1940 : NH Prize, French famous film maker.

Angers

  • Jacques Bonsergent - Angers, 1930 : November 10, 1940, he is accidentally involved in a scuffle with German soldiers. Arrested by mistake, he refuses to denounce his companions and thus assumes alone the responsibility of an action he did not perform. Sentenced to death by a German military tribunal, he will have the unhappy privilege to be the first shot person in Paris, on December 23, 1940. He was 28 years old. His name was given to a subway station in Paris, in 1946.

Châlons-en-Champagne

  • Eugène Houdry - Châlons, 1908 : he dedicated his life to the development of oil processing techniques. He invented several new processes and created 14 big Catalytic cracking units. He files more than 600 patents. Thanks to the higher energetic power of his gasoline, allied war planes proved superior to their opponents during world war two.

Cluny

References

  1. ^ List of famous alumni on the alumni's official website (FR)
  2. ^ http://www.chalons.ensam.fr/bicent/historique/gadzarts_renom.htm
  3. ^ https://patrimoine.gadz.org/gadz/bezier.htm
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