Georges Jean Marie Darrieus

French aerospace and electrical engineer

Georges Jean Marie Eugene Darrieus
Born	(1888-09-24)24 September 1888 Toulon, France
Died	16 July 1979(1979-07-16) (aged 90) Houilles, France
Alma mater	École Centrale Paris ENSEEIHT
Known for	Darrieus–Landau instability Darrieus wind turbine
Scientific career
Institutions	Compagnie Électro-Mécanique

Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 – 15 July 1979) was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He invented the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.

The invention is described in the 1931 U.S. patent 1,835,018.

Darrieus is also know for introduction of laminated pressplates into the construction of the stators used in synchronous generators thus reducing the core losses.^[1]

Biography

In World War I, Georges Darrieus was appointed as the artilley captain in 1917.

References

^ Neidhöfer 1992, p. 243.

Sources

Neidhöfer, Gerhard (1992). "The evolution of the synchronous machine" (PDF). Engineering Science and Education Journal. 1 (5): 239–248. doi:10.1049/esej:19920050.