Raymond Siestrunck

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Raymond Siestrunck
Born	(1919-10-21)21 October 1919 Besançon, France
💀Died	March 21, 2005(2005-03-21) (aged 85) Bandol, FranceMarch 21, 2005(2005-03-21) (aged 85)
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Raymond Siestrunck (October 1919 – died 21 March 2005) was a French physicist and mathematician.

Biography

Family

Raymond Siestrunck was born on 21 October 1919 in Besançon.

He married Denise Pérès (Marseille, 1924 – Bandol, 2020), daughter of mathematician and physicist Joseph Pérès and Geneviève Robin, daughter of philosopher Léon Robin. Denise Pérès was the sister of Jean-Marie Pérès (zoologist and biological oceanographer).

Raymond Siestrunck passed away on 21 March 2005, in Bandol.

Professional Career

A former student of the École normale supérieure (1939), he obtained his degree in physics in 1943, became a member of the Société mathématique de France in 1948, and professor of aerodynamics at the École nationale supérieure de mécanique et d'aérotechnique (ENSMA) in Poitiers. He was also a shareholder in the Compagnie Industrielle des Aéromoteurs (CIAMO), a taxi-plane company founded by Claude de Cambronne in Morocco.

Raymond Siestrunck is known for his work with a trio of mathematician-physicists, including Paul Germain, Raymond Siestrunck, and Lucien Malavard, established under the leadership of his father-in-law Joseph Pérès, himself a mathematician and physicist.

He became a lecturer at the University of Poitiers in 1959 and head of the Research Division at the National Office for Aeronautical and Aerospace Research (ONERA) in 1960. In 1962, he became a professor of Physical and Experimental Mechanics at the University of Paris and founded the Musical Acoustics Group at Paris 6 University in 1963. He also taught at the École normale supérieure of Technical Education (ENSET) in Cachan.

In 1980, he became interested in the professional prospects for some science graduates by proposing the creation of complementary courses in management and commerce.

He was instrumental in introducing musical acoustics at Pierre and Marie Curie University and participated in creating specialized degrees in teaching mechanics, including the agrégation.

Honors

• Aviation Medal (4 April 1950)
• Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (31 July 1959)
• Honorary Doctorate from the Free University of Brussels (8 November 1962)
• Commander of the Order of Academic Palms (21 July 1983)

Publications

• Doctoral Thesis in Physical Sciences (1949), "Potential Flow in Simple Helicoidal Machines".
• "Potential Flows in Simple Helicoidal Machines", National Office for Aeronautical and Aerospace Research, ONERA, Paris (1949), Publication No. 32
• "Aerodynamics of Coaxial Counter-rotating Systems" (with J.J. Bernard), 1949
• "Applied Statics", 1967, Armand Colin

Notes and References

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