Numa Manson
{{Short description|French scientist (1913–1993)}}
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|birth_place = Ekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine)
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|death_place = Poitiers, France
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|field = Combustion
|work_institutions = University of Poitiers
French Institute of Petroleum
|alma_mater = University of Paris
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Numa Manson (13 October 1913 – 2 November 1993) was a French scientist, working in the field of combustion and detonation.http://www.icders.org/ICDERS2007/abstracts/ICDERS2007-0131.pdf{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=S. B. |date=2008-09-01 |title=Numa Manson on velocity deficits and detonation stability |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s00193-008-0128-z |journal=Shock Waves |language=en |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=255–268 |doi=10.1007/s00193-008-0128-z |issn=1432-2153}} Along with Antoni K. Oppenheim (Berkeley) and Rem I. Soloukhin (Minsk), he founded the International Committee on Gasdynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems (ICDERS) in 1967.{{Cite web |title=History of ICDERS |url=http://www.icders.org/history.html |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=www.icders.org}} The Numa Manson medal is named after him.{{Cite web |title=Awards |url=http://www.icders.org/awards.html#:~:text=NUMA%20MANSON%20MEDAL%20for%20distinguished,of%20explosions%20and%20reactive%20systems |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=www.icders.org}}
Biography
Numa Manson was born in Ekaterinoslav on October 13, 1913,{{Cite web |title=matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/wL6F4hat1uKL |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=deces.matchid.io}} but along with his family, he emigrated to Germany in 1923 and further to France in 1926. In 1937, he received the French citizenship.
Manson graduated from the University of Paris in 1934 and from the Higher School of Welding in 1935. From 1936 to 1941, he served in the French army and from 1941 to 1945, he worked at the Welding Institute and from 1946 to 1954, he worked at the French Institute of Petroleum. From 1954 onwards, he was a faculty member at the University of Poitiers. He served as the director of CNRS from 1973 to 1982.
Notable Numa Manson medal recipients
Some notable recipients of the Numa Manson medal are;
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- Numa Manson (1975)
- Yakov Zeldovich (1977)
- Sol Penner (1979)https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb7953568g
- Forman A. Williams (1995)
- Moshe Matalon (2017)
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