Background
Favre, Alexandre Jean was born on February 23, 1911 in Toulon, France. Son of Auguste Edouard and Mélanie Jeanne (Mercure) Favre.
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In this volume, members of the French Academy from several disciplines - including fluid mechanics, economics, philosophy, theoretcial physics and biology - offer scientific and theoretical analyses of the concepts of order, chaos and determinism as they emerge in such complex and diverse systems as atmosphere, oceans, monetary economics and biological organisms. Using turbulence in fluid mechanics as the chief model, the authors describe and explain the behaviour of systems that tend toward a particular end-state, such as an attractor in dynamic systems. The result is an interdisciplinary study of complex behaviour and its philosophical consequences in fluid mechanics, meteorology, oceanography, physics, embryology, genetics and economics.
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Favre, Alexandre Jean was born on February 23, 1911 in Toulon, France. Son of Auguste Edouard and Mélanie Jeanne (Mercure) Favre.
Degree in Engineering, Engineers' School, Marseilles, France, 1931. Bachelor of Science, Faculty of Sciences, Marseilles, 1932. Doctor of Science, Faculty of Sciences, Paris, 1938.
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Science, University of Marseilles 1932-1938, Lecturer 1938^11, Assistant Professor 1941-1945, Association Professor 1945-1951, Professor since 1951. Director Institute of Mechanical Statistics of Turbulence since 1960, Emeritus Professor since 1981. Scientific Assistant Ministry of Air 1932.
Scientific Counsellor, National Office of Aerospatial Studies and Research 1947, Atomic Energy Commissariat 1958.
President Federation universitaire de Mecanique. Commander des Palmes acaddmiques" Major Research deludes: hypersustentation 1934, hyperconvection 1951.
Inventor of centrifugal sub-transport-supersonic compressor 1940. Inventor of apparatus for statistical measurement of time correlation 1942, and of appliance for detection of random noise 1952.
Research on turbulence of fluids and space-time correlations 1942-1991, and on statistical equations of turbulent compressible gas 1948-1991.
(In this volume, members of the French Academy from severa...)
( "I found this most unusual book to be very stimulating....)
National Committee Scientific Research 1963, National Committee Universities 1972-1975, Mathematical Society of France, Physical Society of France, American Physical Society, member Academy, des Sciences 1977. National Academy, for Air and Space since 1983.
Married Luce Jeanne Palombe. Children: Christian, Elyette, Nadine.