Léon Lecornu

French engineer and physicist

Léon Lecornu

Born	(1854-01-13)13 January 1854 Caen, France
Died	13 November 1940(1940-11-13) (aged 86) Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, France
Nationality	French
Education	Lycée Malherbe
Alma mater	École Polytechnique École des Mines de Paris
Awards	Poncelet Prize (1900)

Léon Lecornu (13 January 1854, Caen – 13 November 1940, Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados) was a French engineer and physicist.

After his secondary education at the Lycée de Caen, Léon Lecornu obtained his engineering degree from École Polytechnique in 1872. In 1893, he was appointed professor at the Faculté de Caen, then at l’école des mines, and in 1900 at l’École polytechnique 1904.

He was elected a member of l'Académie des sciences in 1910 (section de mécanique).

He was the brother of Joseph Lecornu.

Bibliography

Cours de mécanique, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1914–1918^[1]^[2]^[3]
Dynamique appliquée, Paris, Doin, 1908^[4]
La mécanique, les idées et les faits, Paris, Flammarion, 1918
Les régulateurs des machines à vapeur, Paris, Dunod, 1904
Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique 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, read online.
Théorie mathématique de l'élasticité, Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1929, réimp. 1967

References

^ Longley, W. R. (1915). "Review: Cours de Mécanique. Vol. I by Léon Lecornu" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 21 (7): 363–364. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1915-02678-9.
^ Longley, W. R. (1917). "Review: Cours de Mécanique. Vol. II by Léon Lecornu" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 24 (2): 99–100. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1917-03022-4.
^ Longley, W. R. (1918). "Review: Cours de Mécanique. Vol. III by Léon Lecornu" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 25 (2): 90–91. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1918-03158-3.
^ Shaw, James Byrnie (1910). "Review: Dynamique Appliquée. Par L. Lecornu. & Hydraulique Générale. Par A. Boulanger" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 16 (7): 382–384. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1910-01929-7.

External links

Biographical information for Léon Lecornu(in French)
Léon LECORNU – Généa50 – GeneaNet
This article incorporates information from the corresponding article in French wikipédia