Pierre Bénard [SEP] date of death
Pierre Bénard
Pierre Bénard (17 November 1898 – 22 December 1946) was a French journalist.
Bénard was born in 1898; his father was clerk to an attorney. He began as a journalist in the 1920s, for "L'Œuvre", where he held the judicial brief, and for "Bonsoir". He was the author of upbeat novels and of many prefaces for works on contemporary law, at the same time doing large-scale reportages for various weekly publications including "Gringoire" (from which he distanced
of his colleagues there was Pierre Duhem. Bénard continued to study vortex shedding, analyzing the Lyon films to measure the wavelength and frequency of vortex shedding as other parameters are varied, such as the flow speed and the geometry of the obstacle. He also made films of thermal convection.
Also in 1910, Bénard began collaborating with Camille Dauzère (1869-1944), who became a key collaborator in Bénard's fluid dynamics research. Dauzère studied the problems of thermal convection and solidification, prompting Bénard himself to
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