Albert Châtelet

Biography

Entered with the National university in 1905, it is received with the contest of aggregation in 1908 and becomes professor of college with Tours. Doctor in 1913, it becomes university lecturer with Lille in 1914. He becomes then professor of Mathématiques general then professor of Mechanic and senior in 1921.

In 1924 it is named vice-chancellor Académie of Lille. From his thirteen years of vice-chancellorship, one will retain the great number of school rebuildings of after war, and the supports which it brought to the “new methods” of teaching. In 1937 it is named director of the secondary education, until 1940. In its short stay at the minister of education it took part in the “reform Jean Zay” refused by the Sénat, and included in its principles by the Commission Langevin-Small valley in 1946. In 1945, it is named with the pulpit of arithmetic and theory of the numbers of the Faculty of Science of Paris. It opened in France ways of research offered by the German school of Arithmétique. In 1949 it succeeds Jean Cabannes with the Décanat until its retirement in 1954. It is then recipient in the construction project of the Université Jussieu on the site of the old wine market.

After its retirement, he assumes the presidency of the rationalist Union (1955-1960) and takes part in other associations (University Office of Statistics, BUS, 1954). He is presented by the Union of the democratic forces like candidate to the presidency of the République in 1958.

Posterity

The university center Albert Châtelet in the 5th district of Paris bears its name.

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