Jacques Biot | |
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| President of the École Polytechnique | |
| In office 2013–2018 | |
| Preceded by | Marion Guillou |
| Succeeded by | Éric Labaye |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 December 1952 Lyon, France |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | Lycée du Parc |
| Alma mater | École Polytechnique Mines ParisTech |
Jacques Biot (born 6 December 1952) is a French engineer, businessman, lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies and academic administrator. He serves as the president of the École Polytechnique between 2013 and 2018.
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The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike
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If you’re riding a bike and want to turn right, you might think that you should turn the handlebars to the right. However, that’s wrong. Because, unlike a car where turning the wheels merely changes the direction the car is pointed, turning the front wheel makes a bike lean. When you turn the bike wheel to the right, the wheel goes to the right, right out from under you and the rest of the bike. So now you’re leaning to the left, and the force on the bike from the ground will be directed to the left, and a leftward force, of course, makes you go to the left. Since physics seems determined that you’re going left, you’d probably better just give in and let the handlebars turn to the left, too. And that’s how you turn left on a bike – by first turning right. If you really wanted to go right, you should have started by counter-steering to the left. Once you finally get yourself into a right turn, you’ll also need to work to keep yourself in the turn, since most bikes and motorcycles have a tendency to automatically stabilize and straighten out on their own. This happens because a right-leaning bike automatically steers itself even farther to the right to get the wheels back underneath its center of mass, so you’ll actually need to apply a slight torque to the left to keep the wheels from turning too far to the right. Yes, it’s counterintuitive: to turn right on a bike you turn left, then keep trying to turn left while leaning and turning right. Bikes are weird.
Early life
Jacques Biot was born on December 6, 1952, in Lyon, France.[1]
Biot was educated at the Lycée Ampère and the Lycée du Parc in Lyon.[1] He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1974 and the École des Mines in 1977.[2][3]
Career
Biot served in the Corps des mines in Languedoc-Roussillon from 1977 to 1980.[1] He worked as an urban planner and statistician in the Ministry of Labour from 1980 to 1983.[1] He subsequently served as an advisor to Labour ministers Edmond Hervé and Laurent Fabius.[1] When Fabius became prime minister in 1984, Biot remained his advisor, up until 1985.[1][3]
Biot worked for Roussel Uclaf, a pharmaceutical company.[1][3] He subsequently worked for Pasteur-Vaccins (now Sanofi).[1][3] He founded JNB-Développement S.A., a consultancy firm for the healthcare industry, in 1992.[1][4] He also served as the vice president and director of Guerbet.[2]
Biot has served as the president of his alma mater, the École Polytechnique, since July 1, 2013.[1][2] He succeeded Marion Guillou.[1] Biot was tasked with modernising the school, based on Bernard Attali's recommendations.[5] As a result, he established a centre for start-ups and oversaw the expansion of Paris-Saclay.[5][3]
Biot became an Officer of the Legion of Honour in 2014.[6]
In October 2018, he was appointed director of Huawei France.[7]
Personal life
Biot is married, and he has three daughters.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Jacques Nicolas BIOT (né en 1952)". Les Annales des Mines. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ a b c "School Leadership". Ecole Polytechnique. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ a b c d e Inchauspé, Irène (July 10, 2013). "Les travaux d'Hercule de Jacques Biot". L'Opinion. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ "Company Overview of JNB-Développement S.A." Bloomberg. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ a b Inchauspé, Irène (June 8, 2015). "Jacques Biot : " Polytechnique fonctionne déjà comme une entreprise "". L'Opinion. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ "Décret du 13 novembre 2014 portant promotion et nomination". legifrance. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
- ^ "Après Borloo, Huawei recrute Jacques Biot, l'ex-président de Polytechnique". Challenges (in French). 17 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-10-19.
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