Jean Aubert

Education Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. years unknown - Inspecteur Général des Ponts et Chaussées 1966-unknown - Consulting engineer and honorary chairman of Spie Batignolles. Chairman of several other companies.

Publications In 1919 he published La Probabilité dans les tires de guerre and was awarded the Pierson-Perrim prize by the Académie des Sciences in 1922. His article Philosophie de la pente d'eau appeared in the journal Travaux in 1984 when he was 90 years old. In 1961 he published his revolutionary ideas on the pente d'eau, or water slope, which was designed to transfer barges from one level to another without the use of locks.

Awards Croix de Guerre in 1916. Académie des Sciences: Prix Pierson-Perrim 1922. Awarded the Caméré prize in 1934 by the Académie des Sciences for a new type of movable dam. Ingénieur Général des Ponts et Chaussées 1951, Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur 1960.

Principle works Construction of the Pont Edouard-Herriort on the Rhône at Lyon. Design and construction of the Génissiat dam and Lonzères-Mondragon dam on the Rhône. Conception and design of the Denouval dam on the Seine near Andrésy, completed in 1980.