Marcel Bayard
Honoré Marcel Bayard | |
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Born | |
Died | April 15, 1956 | (aged 60)
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | École polytechnique |
Known for | Bayard-Bode relations, Telecommunications |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Telecommunication |
Institutions | École nationale supérieure des télécommunications Société mathématique de France |
Marcel Bayard (1895-1956) was a French mathematician and telecommunications engineer. He made pioneering contributions to the telecommunications theory in the 1930s. As Chief Engineer of French Telecommunications after the World War II, he supervised and modernized the French Communications system .
Biography and work
Born in 1895, son of a farmer, he obtained his baccalauréat at the Lycée of Le Puy en Velay. He served as young officer during the World War 1 where he was seriously wounded and received the Croix de Guerre. He integrated the École polytechnique in 1919 .
He started his career by supervising Submarine cables installation. Then he became in 1923 a State engineer in Telecommunication . As professor at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications, he wrote several noted scientific papers. He is the first to establish in 1935 [1] what is called the “Bayard-Bode relations” (relations linking Phase and Amplitude of a signal in specific cases <ref>[1] . He also wrote the Theorical Electricity lessons for the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications where he was the first in France to introduce the matrix calculations for electrical network theory. He represented France in international Telecommunications committees in the 1930s.
After the World War two, he was in charge by the French Government to rebuild and modernize the Communications network.
Membership & Honors
- Director of the studies of the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications in 1941
- Engineer in Chief of French Telecommunications in 1954.
- He was elected in 1950 vice-president of the Société mathématique de France<ref>[2].
Legacy
- The French cable layer Marcel Bayard (fr:Marcel Bayard (câblier)) named after him was launched in 1961.
References
Sources Les pionniers de la téléphonie sous-marine [3]
Publications
- Sur la propagation des ondes le long des lignes de transmission et sur le calcul de l'onde résultante après les réflexions successives aux extrémités, bulletin de la Société française des électriciens N°23, march 1943.
- Cours d'électricité théorique, cours à l'École Nationale des Télécommunications, 1945 & 1948.
- Théorie des réseaux de Kirchhoff-Régime sinusoïdal et synthèse, collection technique et scientifique du CNET, 1954