Robert Dautray

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Robert Dautray (born February 1, 1928 in Paris ) is a French engineer and applied mathematician who was the French High Commissioner for Atomic Energy from 1993 to 1998.

Dautray was originally called Kouchelevitz and was the son of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union. During the Second World War, his parents were murdered in Auschwitz, and he himself hid in the country in France. He studied from 1945 at the École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers and from 1949 at the Ecole Polytechnique and then at the Ecole des Mines . He then worked for the civil section of the French Atomic Energy Agency ( CEA) . In the final phase of the French hydrogen bomb project, he became its scientific director in 1967. There was later controversy about his contribution (see Michel Carayol ). As Scientific Director at CEA, he contributed to reactor development (high-flux reactor in Grenoble) and uranium enrichment, and headed the Phébus high-power laser program.

He is a member of the Academie des Sciences (1977) and since 1989 a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 1998 he became a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor , whose Grand Cross he received in 2007. In 1993 he received the Edward Teller Award from the American Nuclear Society.

In 2007 he published his memoir.

With Jacques-Louis Lions he published a manual of numerical methods.

Fonts

  • Mémoires, du Vel d'Hiv à la bombe H, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2007.
  • with Jacques Lesourne, L'humanité face au changement climatique, Odile Jacob, Paris, 2009.
  • with JJ Duderstadt, EE Lewis, C. Bardos: Neutron Transport Equation, Paris, Eyrolles 1983.
  • with Jacques-Louis Lions (editor): Analyze mathématique et calcul numérique, 9 volumes, Paris: Masson, 1984–1987
    • English edition with IN Sneddon u. a .: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology, 6 volumes, Springer 1999
  • Méthodes spectrales, Paris, Eyrolles 1988
  • with M. Cessenat, G. Ledanois, P. Lions, E. Pardoux, R. Sentis: Méthodes probabilistes pour les equations de la physique, Paris, Eyrolles 1989
  • with J.-L. Lions, JC Amson: Spectral theory and applications, Berlin, Springer-Verlag 1990.
  • with J.-P. Watteau: La fusion thermonucléaire inertielle par laser, 2 volumes, Paris, Eyrolles 1993, 1995.
  • with J. Planchard: Méthodes mathématiques en neutronique, Paris, Eyrolles 1995.
  • with M. Tubiana: La radioactivité et ses applications - Que sais-je ?, Paris, Presses universitaires de France 1996
  • with J.-L. Lions, IN Sneddon: Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Methods for Science and Technology, 2 volumes, Springer 1999
  • L'énergie nucléaire civile dans le cadre temporel des changements climatiques, Paris, Technique & Documentation 2001
  • Quelles énergies pour demain ?, Paris, Odile Jacob 2004.
  • with M. Petit: Qu'est-ce que l'effet de serre? Ses conséquences sur l'avenir du climat, Paris, Vuibert 2004.
  • Les isotopes du plutonium et leurs descendants dans le nucléaire civil, Paris, Éditions Tec & Doc 2005.
  • Sécurité et utilization hostile du nucléaire civil - De la physique à la biologie, Paris, Éditions Tec & Doc 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pierre Billaud et al. a., La bomb H, la verité
  2. ↑ Roster: Robert Dautray. Academia Europaea, accessed September 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Recipient of the Edward Teller medal
personal data
SURNAME Dautray, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kouchelevitz, Robert (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris