Lucien March
Lucien March (6 December 1859 – 4 April 1933) was a French demographer, statistician, and engineer. In 1878 Lucien March enrolled in l'École polytechnique and after graduation in 1880 served in the naval artillery corps. He was the director of the (SGF) from 1896 to 1920. In 1896, he introduced Hollerith punched card Tabulating machine, tabulating machines into France and later invented an improved machine, the classifier-counter-printer, which was used until the 1940s. He also arranged a sorting process using the workplace addresses of the people counted in the French population census to generate valuable economic data and labor statistics. He was an invited speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Rome (1908), Toronto (1924), and Bologna (1928). In 1912, upon his return from an international congress on eugenics, held in London, March helped to found a French eugenics society, which published in 1922 , a collection of essays on eugenics. In the 1920s ...
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École Polytechnique
École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoie, a French commune * École-Valentin, a French commune in the Doubs département * Grandes écoles, higher education establishments in France * The École, a French-American bilingual school in New York City Ecole may refer to: * Ecole Software This is a list of Notability, notable video game companies that have made games for either computers (like PC or Mac), video game consoles, handheld or mobile devices, and includes companies that currently exist as well as now-defunct companies. ...