Léon Lecornu
Léon François Alfred Lecornu , also Le Cornu , (born January 13, 1854 in Caen , † November 13, 1940 in Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer ) was a French engineer and physicist. He was the chief railway engineer for western France and the state railways and inspector general for mining.
Lecornu received an honorary award at the Concours Général in mathematics and studied from 1872 at the École polytechnique and from 1875 to 1878 at the École des Mines . In 1893 he became professor of mechanics at the University (Faculté des Sciences) in Caen (where he was Maître de conférences in 1881), in 1900 at the École des Mines and in 1904 at the École polytechnique.
Lecornu was a member of the Académie des Sciences (1910), of which he was president in 1930. He received several prizes from the Académie des Sciences (Prix Fourneyron 1895, Prix Poncelet 1900, Prix Montyon in Mechanics 1909). In 1925 he became commander of the Legion of Honor . In 1898 he was president of the Société mathématique de France .
His brother Joseph Lecornu (1864–1931) was an engineer (in 1893 he electrified Caen).
In 1882 he married the painter Henriette Favreau, with whom he had five children.
Fonts
- Cours de mécanique, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1914–1918
- Dynamique appliquée, Paris, Doin, 1908
- La mécanique, les idées et les faits, Paris, Flammarion, 1918
- Les régulateurs des machines à vapeur, Paris, Dunod, 1904
- Note sur le laboratoire aerodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1914
- Sur la métallurgie du fer en basse-Normandie, Caen, Le Blanc-Hardel, 1884
- Sur l'équilibre des surfaces flexibles et inextensibles. Suivi de Propositions données par la Faculté, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880,
- Théorie mathématique de l'élasticité, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1929, reprinted 1967
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| SURNAME | Lecornu, Leon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lecornu, Léon François Alfred (full name); Cornu, Le |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French engineer and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Caen |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1940 |
| Place of death | Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer |