Background
GERMAIN, Paul was born on August 28, 1920 in Saint-Malo. Son of Paul Germain and Elisabeth Frangeul.
professor of theoretical mechanics
GERMAIN, Paul was born on August 28, 1920 in Saint-Malo. Son of Paul Germain and Elisabeth Frangeul.
Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris and University of Paris.
Engineer, Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (O.N.E.R.A.) 1946-1949, Director 1962-1968. Association Professor University of Poitiers 1949-1954. Professor University of Lille 1954-1958.
Professor, of Theoretical Mechanics University of Paris 1958-1977, Ecole Polytechnique 197785, University Pierre and Marie Curie 1985-1987.
Visiting Professor, Brown University 1953-1954, Stanford University 1969-1970. Fellow, A.I.A.A. 1981.
Foreign Association Academy-Royale Belgique des Lettres, des Sciences et des Arts 1984, Academy, of Sciences (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) 1988. Honorary degree (Louvain) 1961, (Strathclyde) 1975.
(Madrid University) 1980, (Brussels) 1984.
PublicatioJis: Mecanique des milieux continus 1962, Cours de mecanique des milieux continus 1973, Mecanique 1986 and more than 100 papers on theoretical aerodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, shock wave theory and mechanics of continua.
Academy, des Sciences since 1970, Permanent Secretary since 1975. Institute Academy, of Astronautics, Pontifical Academy, of Sciences.
Accad.
Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome 1976, Polish Academy, of Sciences 1978.
Married Marie-Antoinette Gardent in 1942.