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.

[1] 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.

He was a professor for 26 years at the Institut de Chronométrie at the University of Besançon.

Andrade did research related to mechanical clocks.

[3][4] Andrade was an Invited Speaker of the ICM in 1897 at Zürich, in 1904 at Heidelberg, in 1908 at Rome,[5] and in 1924 at Toronto.