Jean Gustave Bourbouze was a French engineer, manufacturer of precision instruments and a teacher of technical education.
13 Facts About Jean-Gustave Bourbouze
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Jean-Gustave Bourbouze was chosen by the professors Claude Pouillet and Cesar Despretz to succeed Jean Thiebault Silbermann as a physics and curator of the physics in the Faculty of Science of Paris in 1849.
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Jean-Gustave Bourbouze then became the collaborator of several physicists, including Leon Foucault, with whom he prepared in 1851 the pendulum in the Pantheon.
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Just before leaving the role of preparer, Jean-Gustave Bourbouze noticed a young student, Pierre Curie who was preparing his Bachelor of Science degree in the Faculty of Science.
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Jean-Gustave Bourbouze then took him as assistant to the preparation of Francois Leroux's physics course at the Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie de Paris.
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Jean-Gustave Bourbouze met Jacques Curie who succeeded him at the Ecole Superieure de Pharmacie de Paris.
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In 1886, Jean-Gustave Bourbouze was the builder of an electrometer and an apparatus for the study of the piezoelectric quartz invited by the Curie brothers.
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Jean-Gustave Bourbouze developed at the end of his life a process of welding aluminum, with an aluminum-tin alloy, the study of which was continued by his widow.
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Some instruments manufactured by Jean-Gustave Bourbouze are as follows:.
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One of his pupils, Charles-Jeremie Hemardinquer, a student at the Faculty of Sciences, collected the notes left to his death by Jean-Gustave Bourbouze and collected by his widow, notes in which he had written about operating modes for the classes that he made free on his Sunday.
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In 1895, he published a work entitled "Modes operatoires de physique" by Gabriel Lippmann, who had known Jean-Gustave Bourbouze when he was a student, like "Modest and learned man, model preparer and skilled builder at the same time as inventor engineer".
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In 1908, the teaching sessions of Laboratoires Jean-Gustave Bourbouze welcomed 150 students divided into eight sections: general physics, optics, electricity, analytical chemistry, industrial chemistry, photography, micrography and metallurgy.
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An association of pupils and former students of the Jean-Gustave Bourbouze laboratories is created, an association which publishes the journal l'Actualite scientifique: a monthly journal of pure and applied sciences.