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Roger Emile Marie Brard
Pages 15-18

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... He served as Director of the Bassin d'Essais des Carenes (the Paris Ship Model Research Laboratory) from 1941 to 1969, the date of his retirement from active duty but a date marking the continuation of a very active period of theoretical research in ship 15
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... His research in naval architecture and ship hydrodynamics dated back to 1930, when he published his first paper on the problem of determining the ship hull surface to assigned properties. His work on marine propeller theory forms the basis for the design of all French naval ship propellers.
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... In the United States, among other honors, he was awarded the David Taylor Gold Medal of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the first foreign member to receive this high recognition. IS When all of his activities are added together his naval career in ship construction and repair, nuclear installations, weaponry, hull and propeller design, research and development; his career as an educator and mathematician; his innovations in ship and submarine design; his experimental contributions and development of ship research laboratory facilities such as the rotating arm; and his many scientific contributions in theoretical ship hydrodynamicshe came as close to being a Renaissance man as one can find in this day and age.
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