Paul Boucherot (3 October, 1869– 20 February, 1943) was an engineer with the Chemins de Fer du Nord (Northern Railway of France).

He was a pioneer of AC electric power distribution, designed induction motors, and with Georges Claude, built early plants for obtaining thermal energy from the sea.

What is more the total apparent power consumed by two different circuits is not, in general, equal to their arithmetic sum.

[2] The term Boucherot cell is sometimes also applied to circuits used to cancel the reactive part of a loudspeaker load as seen by the amplifier.

It was proposed that refrigeration could also be provided by the plant to semi-tropical areas of the US such as Florida and the desalinated water produced as a byproduct could be used for irrigation and fertilisation of farmland.

[7] During the First World War, Boucherot developed a communication system for the military which injected an oscillating electric field into the ground.

He provided a model for the representation of magnetically coupled circuits, such as the mutual inductance between the windings of a transformer.

Paul Boucherot was elevated to the rank of Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur.