Jean Aubert (engineer)

Education

• Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
• 1913 - École Polytechnique. Soon left for service in First world war. Returned in 1919.
• 1920-1922 - École nationale des ponts et chaussées.
• University of Paris.

  Career

• 1922-1932 - Engineer in charge of the navigation works in Paris.
• 1932-1961 - Professor in the Chair of Internal Navigation at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées.
• 1933-1945 - General manager and later chairman of the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.
• 1945-1953 - Chairman of the electricity board of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français
• 1949-1967 - Chairman of the Rhine Navigation Company
• years unknown - Chairman of the Société de Construction des Batignolles.
• years unknown - President, Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France.
• years unknown - Inspecteur Général des Ponts et Chaussées
• 1966-unknown - Consulting engineer and honorary chairman of Spie Batignolles.
• Chairman of several other companies.

  Publications

• In 1919 he published La Probabilité dans les tires de guerre and was awarded the Pierson-Perrim prize by the Académie des Sciences in 1922.
• His article Philosophie de la pente d'eau appeared in the journal Travaux in 1984 when he was 90 years old.
• In 1961 he published his revolutionary ideas on the pente d'eau, or water slope, which was designed to transfer barges from one level to another with the use of locks.

  Awards

• Croix de Guerre in 1916.
• Académie des Sciences: Prix Pierson-Perrim 1922.
• Awarded the Caméré prize in 1934 by the Académie des Sciences for a new type of movable dam.
• Ingénieur Général des Ponts et Chaussées 1951,
• Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur 1960.

  Principle works

• Construction of the Pont Edouard-Herriort on the Rhône at Lyon.
• Design and construction of the Génissiat dam and Lonzères-Mondragon dam on the Rhône.
• Conception and design of the Denouval dam on the Seine near Andrésy, completed in 1980.