Antoine Marc Gaudin

Antoine Marc Gaudin (August 8, 1900 – August 23, 1974) was a distinguished American mineral engineer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering.^[1]

Biography

Gaudin was born in Smyrna, Turkey, where his father was a railroad general manager and archaeologist. He was educated in Haifa, Versailles, and Toulon, then attended universities in Paris and Aix-en-Provence from which he received his bachelor's degrees in 1916 and 1917, respectively. He followed his father to the United States in 1917 to enter the Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science, from which he received his Engineer of Mines degree in 1921.

After brief interludes in industry, Gaudin returned to Columbia in 1924 as a lecturer. In 1926 he became an American citizen. From 1926-1929 he taught at the University of Utah, and from 1929-1939 was professor at the Montana School of Mines. He then assumed a professorship at MIT in 1939, which he retained until his retirement in 1966. In World War II and subsequently, Gaudin led an MIT team extracting uranium from low-grade ore.

For his distinguished career in education, Gaudin was awarded several of the highest honors bestowed by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers. The book "Principles of Mineral Dressing" authored by AM Gaudin is still the basic book for all mineral processing engineers.

References

• National Academy memorial tribute
• AM Gaudin, Principles of Mineral Dressing, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi.