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Henri Bénard
French physicist · France · On the map · Scientists · Lived 1874 to 1939 · aged 64
Henri Claude Bénard was a French physicist, best known for his research on convection in liquids that now carries his name, Bénard convection.
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In addition, the historical surveys of both Tokaty and von Kármán both acknowledge that Bénard studied the vortex shedding phenomenon later named the Kármán vortex street, prior to von Karman's own contributions. Bénard specialized in experimental fluid dynamics, and the use of optical methods to study it. He was a faculty member at the universities at Lyon, Bordeaux, and finally the Sorbonne in Paris.
