Jules Andrade

Jules Frédéric Charles Andrade (4 September 1857, Paris – 25 February 1933, Brighton near Cayeux-sur-Mer) was a French physicist, mathematician and horologist. He won the Poncelet Prize for 1917.

Career

After graduation from l’École polytechnique and military service in the artillery, he became a professor at the University of Rennes and later at the University of Montpellier. On 3 June 1899 he was an expert witness for Alfred Dreyfus in the famous trial during the Dreyfus Affair. He was a professor for 26 years at the Institut de Chronométrie at the University of Besançon. Andrade did research related to mechanical clocks.

Works

• Chronométrie (1908)
• Le mouvement, les mesures du temps et de l'étendue (1911)
• Les organes réglants des chronomètres (1920)
• Horlogerie et chronométrie (1924)
• Mécanique Physique, Nabu Press, Reprint 2010, ISBN 978-1148526980
• Leçons de Mécanique Physique, Nabu Press, Reprint 2010, ISBN 978-1142270735
• La géometrie naturelle en deux livres