Antoine Marc Gaudin

Antoine Marc Gaudin (born August 8, 1900 in Izmir , † August 23, 1974 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was a French-American engineer who worked in the fields of metallurgy and technical mineralogy .

Life

Antoine Marc Gaudin was born the son of a French engineer in Izmir (Smyrna). His father was the general manager of a railway company under French control in what was then the Ottoman Empire . After attending school in Haifa , Versailles and Toulon and graduating in 1916 and 1917, he then went to the USA, where his father worked during the First World War . Gaudin studied at the Columbia School of Mines of Columbia University and graduated in 1921 with the degree Engineer of Mines from. After stints in industry, he returned in 1924 as a professor at Columbia University. In 1926 he became a US citizen. From 1926 to 1929 he was Associate Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Utah and then until 1939 Research Professor at the Montana School of Mines . From 1939 until his retirement in 1966 he taught and researched at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Gaudin made important contributions to various areas of technical mineralogy, such as foam flotation in ore processing, hydrometallurgy , comminution of ores, surface chemistry and the metallurgical application of radioactive isotopes.

In 1956 he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1964 he was one of the 25 founding members of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). From 1964 to 1969 he was a member of the NAE Council. He was an honorary doctor of the Montana School of Mines .

literature

Reinhardt Schuhmann, Jr .: Antoine Marc Gaudin, 1900-1974 . Ed .: National Academy of Engineering (= Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering . Volume 1 ). Washington, DC 1979, ISBN 0-309-02889-2 , pp. 71-75 .

Web links

Antoine Marc Gaudin. Short biography. American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, accessed June 20, 2017 (Recognition: Robert H. Richards Award 1957).

Individual evidence

^ Members of the American Academy. (PDF) Listed by election year, 1950-1999. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, accessed June 20, 2017 (PDF file).

personal data
SURNAME	Gaudin, Antoine Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French-American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	August 8, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH	Izmir
DATE OF DEATH	23rd August 1974
Place of death	Boston , Massachusetts

[1] Members of the American Academy. (PDF) Listed by election year, 1950-1999. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, accessed June 20, 2017 (PDF file).