List of Arts et Métiers ParisTech alumni

This is a list of notable people affiliated with the Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Alumni of the Arts et Métiers ParisTech are traditionally called Gadzarts.

Famous Gadzarts by fields

« NH Prize » means that the person was awarded the Nessim Habif Prize ^[1]

Armament industry

• Désiré Legat - Châlons, 1853 : Production of guns.
• Albert Oberhauser - Châlons, 1890 : Achieves the mass production of 100,000 rockets a day.
• Ingénieur Robin - Châlons, 1867 : creates the modern 75mm gun shell.

Automotive industry

• Émile Delahaye - Angers, 1859 : he is the first one to use pumps for water circulation;
• Charles Trépardoux - Angers, 1868 : first steam tricycle.
• Charles Brasier - Châlons, 1880 : car with stiff frame and effective shock absorbers
• Louis Delâge - Angers, 1890 : luxury cars maker
• Louis Coatalen - Cluny, 1895 : contributed to the famous "Liberty" engine that equipped the US Army trucks during World War I.
• Sébastien Iglesis - Aix, 1896 : (...)
• Henri Perrot - Châlons, 1899 : (...)

Aviation

• Alexandre Goupil - Angers, 1859 : first helix for airplanes
• Lucien Chauvière - Angers, 1891 : known for the designs of his aircraft propellers.
• Charles Cormont - Angers, 1895 : builds 40 dirigible balloons.
• Louis Béchereau - Angers, 1896 : first airplane to reaches a speed of 200 km/h. Creator of the famous World War I SPAD air fighter (Guynemer's « Vieux Charles »); 13,000 of which were built.
• Antoine Odier - Aix, 1909 : creates the « Odier Vendôme » biplane and constructs a twin-engined seaplane with ballcocks.
• René Couzinet - Angers, 1921 : builds his famous « Arc-en-Ciel » that flies Paris to Buenos-Aires in 2 days and 15 hours.
• Léon Lemartin - Aix-en-Provence, 1902, co-designer of the Gnome Omega rotary aero-engine, pioneer aviator for Bleriot, world record holder.
• Pierre Nadot - Paris, 1924 : first flight of the « Caravelle ».
• Georges Gutman - Cluny, 1943 : creator of the EROS oxygen mask for civil aviation; inventor of a pneumatic harness for the fast use of the mask in flight. NH prize.

Railway

• Jean Meyer - Châlons, 1823 : A variable relaxation system for steam engines^[2]
• Alexandre Desroches - Angers, 1829 : Railway in Russia
• Edmond Roy - Angers, 1837 : Railway of the Andes
• François Michel - Châlons, 1847 : Built the first sleepers, in Moscow, for the Saint Petersburg-Moscow line.
• Raymond Garde - Paris, 1939 : One of the fathers of the High Speed Train (TGV).

Printing Industry

• Charles Catala - Châlons, 1839 : Manufacture of straw paper mass.
• Joseph Heusse - Châlons, 1842 : enhancements of printing machines.
• Abel Boisseau - Angers, 1856 : With Marioni, he creates the rotary presses.
• Louis Moyroud - Cluny, 1933 : (NH Prize). With René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944. (...). Member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame.

Navy

• Claude Goubet - Angers, 1843 : first French submarine
• Charles Marzari - Châlons, 1861 and Albert Dufont - Châlons, 1865 : navy turrets
• Joseph Barguillet - Angers, 1862 : the first of a long line of Arts & Métiers general mechanics engineer. Ranked as an Admiral.
• Jules Tessier - Angers, 1887 : warships, the Gerfaut, the Terrible, world speed records.

Mechanics - Electricity

• Henri Flaud - Angers 1830 : fire pumps.
• Émile Lecoq - Châlons, 1839 : a specialist of printing and numbering machines
• Lucien Arbel - Aix, 1843 : (...), metallurgy, machines
• Amédée Buquet - Angers 1846 : excavators for hard stones
• Ignace Schabaver - Châlons, 1850 : centrifugal pumps (see also. Le Rialet)
• Léandre Megy - Aix, 1851 : lifting and handling, brakes
• Émile Cail - Châlons, 1855 : founded the Fives-Lille company
• Eugène Daguin - Châlons, 1865 : the Daguin stamping machine
• René Guillery - Châlons, 1883 : production control machines
• Alphonse Pégard - Châlons, 1885 : production machines
• Claude Gambin - Châlons, 1900 : milling machines
• Henri Bruet - Lille, 1904 : Cazeneuve lathes
• Marius Lavet - Cluny, 1910 : NH Prize, electric and electronic clocks (quartz watches)
• Jean Dutheil - Aix, 1916 : NH Prize, advanced techniques for metal made buildings
• Pierre Bézier - Paris, 1927 : NH Prize, machine tools for mass production (robots), inventor of computer aided design and Bézier curve.^[3]
• Raymond Pailloux - Châlons, 1927 : developed the integrated circuit technique
• Marcel Sédille - Paris, 1928 : gas and steam turbines
• Georges Henriot - Lille, 1938 : kinematics of the gears

Textile industry

• Frédéric Quinson - Aix, 1847 : invented a woolcombing machine for silk scrap

Public infrastructures industry

• Jean-Baptiste Monnier - Châlons, 1828 : first sugar plant in the Nile valley
• François Barbarin - Angers, 1844 : Bizerte and Tabarka harbours, Gaza phosphates.
• Henri Diedrich - Angers, 1844 : phosphates plant in Krourigba
• Dominique Berjeaut - Aix, 1844 : Danube navigation
• Amédée Buquet - Angers, 1846 : mechanical excavator for hard stone boring
• Alponse Pellerin - Châlons, 1849 et Louis Pellerin - Angers, 1875 : bridges, tunnels, deep water foundations
• Ernest Fouquet - Châlons, 1849 : Trotzki bridge on the Neva river in Petrograd
• Louis Bret - Angers, 1852 : viaducts in Cratellauk, Fiaccati, etc.
• Vincent Dauzats - Angers, 1856 : Suez, Panama and Corinth canals.
• Félix Faraud - Aix, 1862 : close counselor of the Cambodia king, discovers many Khmer people monuments.
• Alfred Letort - Châlons, 1868 : sugar plants, refineries in Egypt
• Ernest Laigle - Châlons, 1871 : Mexico city city, Vera-Cruz bridge.
• Louis Viriot - Châlons, 1872 : Tunis, Sousse and Sfax harbours.
• Léon Chagnaud - Châlons, 1881 : subway under the Seine river, Rove tunnel, Eguzon stopping, Donzère-Mondragon plant.
• Charles Vieille - Châlons, 1912 : Water stopping on the Niger river in Sansanding
• Nicolas Esquillan - Châlons, 1919 : NH Prize, arch of the CNIT building, Tancarville Bridge, reinforced concrete in thin shells.
• Jean Roret - Paris, 1942 : Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, Rouen and Sèvres bridges, Eiffel tower handing-over to the standards, building of the Maine-Montparnasse tower, etc.
• Henri Delauze - Aix, 1946 : NH Prize, very deep sea diving, founder and CEO of the Comex company.

Miscellaneous (sorted by center of origin)

Compiègne

• Joseph Meifred - Compiègne-Châlons-en-Champagne, 1801 : he was a cornist, a pedagogue, and a horn designer. He studied at the Paris Conservatory, and based the Society of Arts et Métiers alumni, in 1846.

Aix-en-Provence

• Henri Jus - Aix, 1847 : geologist, master in the art of probing the ground, he dedicates 44 years of his life to transforming the Sahara desert. Doing this, he saves the Oued Rihr oasis and creates aroung 500 water sources, yelding a total of 250 000 m3/min. Creator of many oasises, he is named « ßou el Ma » (the father of water) by the saharian people.
• Henri Verneuil - Aix, 1940 : NH Prize, French famous film maker.

Angers

• Jacques Bonsergent - Angers, 1930 : November 10, 1940, he is accidentally involved in a scuffle with German soldiers. Arrested by mistake, he refuses to denounce his companions and thus assumes alone the responsibility of an action he did not perform. Sentenced to death by a German military tribunal, he will have the unhappy privilege to be the first shot person in Paris, on December 23, 1940. He was 28 years old. His name was given to a subway station in Paris, in 1946.

Châlons-en-Champagne

• Eugène Houdry - Châlons, 1908 : he dedicated his life to the development of oil processing techniques. He invented several new processes and created 14 big Catalytic cracking units. He files more than 600 patents. Thanks to the higher energetic power of his gasoline, allied war planes proved superior to their opponents during world war two.

Cluny

• Pierre Angénieux - Cluny, 1925 : NH Prize, Hifh quality camera and cinema lenses. Built cameras for space flights. Was awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Award.

References

1. List of famous alumni on the alumni's official website (FR)
2. http://www.chalons.ensam.fr/bicent/historique/gadzarts_renom.htm
3. https://patrimoine.gadz.org/gadz/bezier.htm