LÉOPOLD ESCANDE Physicist; (b. Toulouse, 1 June 1902 – d. Toulouse, 13 September 1980)

University professor: Faculte des Sciences, Toulouse (1937–1972); director of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics (1942–1970); president and the first dean of the National School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics and Hydraulics of Toulouse (1968)

Membership of SASA: Department of Technical Sciences; foreign member from 17 December 1959

Awards and recognitions: Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour; Grand Croix de Ordre national du Mérite (Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit)

Obituary: Yearbook / SASA 87 (1981) 475–476 (Z. Zorić)

Photograph: SANU-F 533