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THE death of M. LUCIEN POINCARÉ, Vice-Rector of the University of Paris, on March 9, at fifty-eight years of age, will be felt as a great, loss, not only to higher education in France, but also to the entente between the universities of that country and those of Great Britain. Only a fortnight before M. Poincaré came to England, accompanied by M. Poincaré to open the British branch of the Office National des Universités et Ecoles françaises, housed with our own Universities of the Empire Bureau in Russell Square. His speeches on February 23, at the Bureau, and on February 24, at the University of London, where he was given a special reception, and at the Lyceum Club, left on his hearers a deep impression of^charm, of width of knowledge, of sound judgment, and of sympathy. M. Lucien Poincare, like his brother Raymond, former President of the French Republic, and his cousin Henri the great mathematician, came from Lorraine. He was a physicist by training, and took his doctor's degree with a thesis on the resistance of fused electrolytes. Like most French physicists, he began his teaching career in secondary education, and was a master first at the Lycée of Marseilles, and then at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. For a time he was charge-de-cours at the Paris Faculty of Sciences; later he entered on an administrative career and held successively the posts of Rector of the Académie of Chambéry, of Inspector-General and then Director of Secondary Education, and of Director of Higher Education at the Ministry of Public Instruction. In October, 1917, M. Poincaré was appointed official head of the University of Paris (the most distinguished post in French university administration) in succes sion to the veteran M. Liard.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 105, 208 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105208a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/105208a0