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Oral History: Raymond Besson (2018)

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Raymond Besson, a first hand history composed from an oral history conducted by Clemens Ruppel, Villars Saint Georges/France, June 21, 2018 Date: June 2018
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Raymond Besson was born on May 02, 1938, in Villars Saint Georges/France, where he still lives today. His nationality is French, and he speaks several languages including American, English, Portuguese and Russian together with some Norwegian and German. He has been an exceptional class professor in “École Nationale Supérieure de Mécanique et des Microtechniques” in Besançon France until 2006. Then, he volunteered, until 2018, as a professor in Université de Franche Comté in Besançon France. He served as “Directeur du laboratoire de Chronométrie et Piézoélectricité” between 1974 and 2002. He was the Regional Delegate of the Ministry in charge of Research and Technology between 1982 an1999. He also has been Président of Société Française de Microtechniques et de Chronométrie (1992-2002).

He was awarded several scientific awards including Grand Prix de l’Électronique « Général Ferrié » in 1980, médaille d’argent du C.N.R.S. in 1980, W.G. CADY Award (IEEE) in 1992 and Outstanding paper Award (IEEE/UFFC) in 1994.

He holds several honorific distinctions in particular Officier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite and Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur.

He has published 123 scientific papers and he holds 16 patents (among which 10 have been used in industry). He has worked as a consultant in more than 12 companies in France and abroad (Switzerland, Germany, U.K., U.S.A., Japan and Russia).

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