Georges Chaudron

Georges Chaudron 1973

Georges Léon Chaudron (born April 29, 1891 in Fontenay-sous-Bois , † March 14, 1976 in Paris ) was a French chemist who had a leading position in metallurgy in France.

Life

Chaudron studied chemistry at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris from 1909 to 1913, served as an artillery lieutenant in World War I from 1914 to 1919 and then received his doctorate in 1921 at the Sorbonne under Henry Le Chatelier ( Étude des réactions réversibles de l'hydrogène et de l'oxyde de carbone sur les oxydes métalliques ). He was then deputy director of the laboratory for inorganic chemistry (chimie minérale) at the Collège de France and 1923 to 1928 head of metallurgy at the École des Mines in Paris, before he succeeded Paul Pascal as professor of applied chemistry (chimie industrial) at the Faculté des Sciences (later the University of Lille ) in Lille , where he headed the Institute of Applied Chemistry from 1928 to 1938 (from 1953 the École nationale supérieure de Chimie de Lille, ENSC de Lille). There he also set up institutes for agrochemistry and coal chemistry. From 1939 to 1969 he was at the Faculté des Sciences in Paris (first as Maitre des conferences and only then as professor for analytical chemistry and from 1948 for applied chemistry) and from 1950 to 1962 director at the École nationale supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP) . From 1939 to 1962 he headed the central chemistry laboratory of the predecessor of the CNRS in Vitry-sur-Seine (from 1953 Center d'études de chimie métallurgique, CECM).

In 1969 he received the gold medal of the CNRS . In 1954 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences , of which he was president in 1971 and whose Prix Houzeau he received in 1934, whose Prix La Caze in 1940 and whose Prix Schützenberger he received in 1951. He received the Croix de Guerre, became a knight in 1935, an officer in 1935 and commander of the Legion of Honor in 1962 and in 1957 commander of the Palmes académiques . In 1957 he received the Osmond Medal and in 1969 the Chevenard Medal of the Société française de métallurgie (SFM), which he co-founded in 1944 and of which he was President in 1950, and in 1957 the gold medal of the Association technique de la fonderie. He has received several honorary doctorates ( Free University of Brussels , Ferrara, Ghent). In 1950 he received the Luigi Losana gold medal of the Italian Metallurgy Society and in 1959 the platinum medal of the Institute of Metals in London, on whose council he was from 1958 to 1968. He was a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Liège, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhetssamhället i Göteborg . In 1959 he was Vice President of the Union internationale de chimie pure et appliquée (UICPA). Chaudron was on the Council of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique and several times chairman of the CNRS Commission for Mineral Chemistry. 1953/54 he was president of the French chemical society and from 1961 its honorary president.

He dealt with the corrosion of metals and was the founder and first director of the Center français d'étude de la corrosion (CEFRACOR) in 1960. He was temporarily president of the Institut de recherche de la sidérurgie (IRSID).

He had been married to the chemical engineer Geneviève Louise Marie Caby since 1923 and had six children.

Fonts

• as editor: Monographies sur les métaux de haute pureté, 3 volumes, Masson, Paris, 1972 (volume 1), 1977 (volume 2,3)
• as editor Les hautes températures et leurs utilisations en physique et en chimie , 2 volumes, Masson, Paris, 1973 (Volume 1: Réalisation des hautes températures, Volume 2: Mesures physiques à hautes températures)

source

• Detailed biography on the France Metallurgie blog ( Memento of January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biographical data, publications and academic family tree of Georges Chaudron at academictree.org, accessed on January 28, 2018.