Philippe Le Corbeiller
| Philippe Le Corbeiller | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 11, 1891 Paris, France |
| Died | July 24, 1980 (aged 89) Wassenaar, the Netherlands |
| Residence | France, U.S., Netherlands |
| Nationality | France, U.S. |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique, University of Paris |
| Known for | Nonlinear systems |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, economics |
| Institutions | Supélec, Harvard |
| Thesis | Contribution à l’étude des formes quadratiques à indéterminées conjuguées (1926) |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Émile Picard |
| Doctoral students | |
| Influences | Balthasar van der Pol |
| Influenced | Richard M. Goodwin |
Philippe Emmanuel Le Corbeiller (January 11, 1891 – July 24, 1980) was a French-American electrical engineer, mathematician, physicist, and educator. After a career in France as an expert on the electronics of telecommunications, he became a professor of applied physics and general education at Harvard University. His most important scientific contributions were in the theory and applications of nonlinear systems, including self-oscillators.
Son of author and politician Jean-Maurice Le Corbeiller and his wife Marguerite Dreux, Philippe entered the École Polytechnique in 1910, training there in engineering and the mathematical sciences. During World War I he served in the French Signal Corps, earning the croix de guerre and joining the staff of Marshal Ferdinand Foch. After the war, Le Corbeiller worked on telegraphy and radio systems.
In 1926 he completed a doctorate in mathematics from the Sorbonne. His dissertation was on the arithmetic theory of Hermitian forms. Written under the supervision of Charles Émile Picard, Le Corbeiller's dissertation built upon the work of the then recently deceased Georges Humbert. From 1929 to 1939, Le Corbeiller served in the French ministry of communications (Ministère des Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones) as a research engineer and taught at the École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec). From 1939 to 1941 he was technical and programming director of the French national broadcasting network (Radiodiffusion nationale). He also obtained a licence in philosophy from the Sorbonne in 1938.
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