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DR. ANDRÉ LABARTHE, as already announced, has been appointed by General de Gaulle to take charge of technical armament services and scientific research for the French National Committee. M. Labarthe, who was born in 1902, was a pupil of the late Prof. Gabriel Koenigs, and specialized in experimental mechanics. After a year in the physical research laboratories of the Ministry for Air, he went to the laboratory for physical and experimental mechanics at the Faculty of Sciences, Paris, where he became assistant (1931), and then chargé de conférences (1934). His thesis for his D.Sc. dealt with photo-electric methods of measuring pressure, the measurement of torsion, and integrating manometers. In addition, he has studied ultra-rapid cinematography, detonation, and internal combustion engines, particularly Diesel engines. M. Labarthe was the head of a delegation sent to Germany in 1934 to study the Diesel engine, and he has also visited England and the United States to inspect scientific and industrial laboratories. In France he has been technical director in the Department of Aeronautics, and recently director of the Station Nationale de Recherches d'Expériences technique and director of the laboratories at Bellevue. He has received the Plumey Prize of the Paris Academy.
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Organization of French Scientific Services in Britain. Nature 146, 89 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146089a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146089a0