Jean Coulomb | |
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| 2nd President of theFrench Space Agency | |
| In office 1962–1967 | |
| Preceded by | Pierre Auger |
| Succeeded by | Jean-François Denisse |
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| Born | (1904-11-07)7 November 1904 |
| Died | 26 February 1999(1999-02-26) (aged 94) |
| Occupation | Geophysicist, mathematician |
| Known for | Early member ofNicolas Bourbaki |
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| Education | École normale supérieure University of Paris |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcel Brillouin Henri Villat |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Algiers Observatory IPGP |
Jean Marie François Joseph Coulomb[1] (7 November 1904 – 26 February 1999) was a Frenchgeophysicist andmathematician, and one of the early members of theBourbaki group of mathematicians.[2]
Coulomb was born inBlida, Algeria. From April 1935 to 1937, he was a member of the Bourbaki group of mathematicians.[3]
He was a professor in the Faculty of Sciences of Paris from 1941 to 1972, and director of theInstitut de Physique du Globe de Paris from 1941 to 1959.
He was director general of CNRS, the FrenchNational Centre for Scientific Research from 1957 to 1962, president ofCNES from 1962 to 1967, and president of theBureau des Longitudes from 1967 to 1969.
Coulomb was the President of theSociété astronomique de France (SAF), the French astronomical society, from 1958 to 1960.[4]
From 1967 to 1971, he was also president of theInternational Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), and from 1972 to 1974 of theInternational Council for Science (ICSU).
In 1960, he was elected to theFrench Academy of Sciences, and was its president from 1976 to 1977.[5]
His work was in the fields ofseismology (theory of surface waves),geomagnetism, andmeteorology (atmospheric electricity and the physics of clouds).
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