Henri Villat

{{Short description|French mathematician}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1879|12|24|df=y}}

| birth_place = Paris

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1972|03|19|1879|12|24|df=y}}

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| nationality = French

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of Paris

| alma_mater = University of Montpellier

| doctoral_advisor = Marcel Brillouin
Charles Émile Picard

| doctoral_students = Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin
Caius Iacob
Jean Leray
Huguette Delavault

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Henri René Pierre Villat ({{IPA|fr|vila|lang}}; 24 December 1879 – 19 March 1972) was a French mathematician. He was professor of fluid mechanics at the University of Paris from 1927 until his death. Villat became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1932, and its president in 1948.{{cite web |url=http://annales.org/archives/x/villat.html |title=Biographie de Henri Villat |work=C.R. Acad. Sc., Paris, t. 274, pp. 127–132 |first=Maurice |last=Roy |date=24 April 1972 |language=fr}}