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Antoine Marc Gaudin
Antoine Marc Gaudin
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He was Richards Professor of Mineral Engineering Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he had taught since 1939. Professor Gaudin was a vigorously creative man and, throughout his productive career, an internationally respected leader of the profession of mineral engineering.
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From 1926 to 1929 he was Associate Professor of Metallurgical Research at the University of Utah and from 1929 to 1939 he was Research Professor of Mineral Dressing at the Montana School of Mines. His and his students' researches in Utah and Montana focussed on the then young science of froth flotation of minerals, and the flow of significant contributions and ensuing commercial applications brought national and international recognition.
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Always active at the leading edge of mineral engineering research for a period of more than forty years, Professor Gaudin authored more than 150 journal publications. Many of these became part of the foundation of the science of froth flotation.
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Thus, he was an avid fisherman, on occasion a gourmet cook, an artist, and a collector of paintings, as well as a patron of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The life and works of Antoine Marc Gaudin leave a clearly documented record of distinguished contributions to engineering knowledge and to the service of society.
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