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In Memoriam
Professeur Marcel V&on

PROFESSOR
Marcel Veron died on 24 August 1984. Born
on 28 November 1900 in Paris, he graduated from the‘Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufacturesde Paris’ in
1922, and was soon involved in thermics teaching.
Nominated Professor at the Ecole Centrale in 1930,
then Professor at the ‘Conservatoire National des Artset Metiers’ in 1935, he gave the best of himself for 43
years in both these establishments
to train engineers
who have contributed
to the redeploymentof Frenchindustrial activity since the Second World War.
A ‘laudatio’ [Znt. J. Heat Mass Transfer 17, 801(1974)] marked
50 years devoted
to thermics
development.
This article gave the essentials
ofProfessor Vtron’s career and of the research fields heworked on. All this will not be repeated here, butreferences of the main publications will be found at theend of this tribute.
Marcel Vtron was the last representativeof a small
group of French professors who were of more or less theHWT
28:3-Asame generation
and who had the responsibilityofmaintaining
heat and mass transfer science at thehighest level. We associate them all together: Pierre
Vernotte (189%1970), Edmond A. Brun (1898-1979)
and Marcel Veron. The first two were, in different
circumstances, students of Charles Fabry (1867-1945).
It was in the Physics Laboratoryof the Air Ministry
led by Pierre Vernotte that Professor
E. A. Brun
conducted his research on temperature measurement in
rapid gas streams in 1930. Marcel V&on inheritedanother scientific school of thought founded at theEcole Centrale in Paris by Eugene P&let, who createdthe ‘Industrial Physics’ chair in 1829. Between PCclet
and V&on there were only four professors (Thomas,Ser, Grouvelle and Roszak), and we even find a survivalof P&let in the nomenclature
Marcel VCron used.
It can be said without exaggerationthat with thedeath of Marcel VCron a kind of professor embodied bythose cited in these lines is disappearing. Time passes by521

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irreversibly and in spite of world social and political
upheaval, the international scientific community willlong remember its best members.
We think Marcel V&on deserves a place in ourmemory since he was active member in the cause offurthering our understanding of heat and mass transfer.
Apart from about 15 papers presented to the Paris
Science Academy (between 1933 and 1969), numerous
articles were published in the Bulletin de la Socittt desing&ieurs civils de France, and in the periodicals
Chateur et ~ndustr~eand Revue Generate de ~erm~que.
We can point out other publications here whichindicate the numerous fields of research to which
Professor V&on brought a fruitful contribution.

(2) Proceedings of eight congresses of the institutFrancuis des Combustibles et de l’Energie (in French) :(1) Books (all in French) :--Nouvelles 6tudes sur la chaleur, Dunod (1929).

(3) Twenty-three technical notes on engineering heatprocesses, printed by the SociCt6 FranGuise BabcockAtlantique (1929-1958), are very interesting guides tocombustion, heat exchangers and boilers.

-Tendances

actuelles des techniques de la chaleur,Dunod (1938).
-Trait6de chauffage-Chimie

Dunod (1941).

-DBpoussibage
des fumees et gaz industriels (1954).
-Utilisation
thermique rationnelle de la vapeur d’eau(1955).
-Combustiondes combustibles solides et pulvirises, 2vol. (1957).
-Gaz et matbriaux humides (1959).
-Transmission
de la chaleur, 2 vol. (1961).
-La combustion et la conversion de l’energie (1964).
-Etats de la mat&e sous les effets des tres hautes et destres basses tem~ratures, tres hautes et t&s basses
pressions (1967).
-Les fluides caioporteurs organiques (1968).

de la combustion,

J. GOSSE