Jules Andrade

Jules Frédéric Charles Andrade (4 September 1857, Paris – 25 February 1933, Brighton near Cayeux-sur-Mer) was a French physicist, mathematician and horologist. He won the Poncelet Prize for 1917.^[1]

Career

After graduation from l’École polytechnique and military service in the artillery, he became a professor at the University of Rennes and later at the University of Montpellier.^[2] On 3 June 1899 he was an expert witness for Alfred Dreyfus in the famous trial during the Dreyfus Affair. He was a professor for 26 years at the Institut de Chronométrie at the University of Besançon. Andrade did research related to mechanical clocks.^[3][4]

Works

• Chronométrie (1908)
• Le mouvement, les mesures du temps et de l'étendue (1911)
• Les organes réglants des chronomètres (1920)
• Horlogerie et chronométrie (1924)
• Mécanique Physique, Nabu Press, Reprint 2010, ISBN 978-1148526980
• Leçons de Mécanique Physique, Nabu Press, Reprint 2010, ISBN 978-1142270735
• La géometrie naturelle en deux livres

References

1. "Séance du 19 décembre". Le Moniteur scientifique du Doctor Quesneville: 47–48. February 1905.
2. Léon Lecornu: Notice nécrologique sur Jules Andrade. In: Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences (1933), T196(12), p. 56.
3. G. A. Berner: Illustriertes Fachlexikon der Uhrmacherei, Stichwort Andrade, Jules
4. Jules Andrade auf Watch-Wiki.org