Jean Henri Bertin (5 September 1917 – 21 December 1975) was a French scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born in Druyes-les-Belles-Fontaines and died in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; literally 'Neuilly on Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is a commune in the department of Hauts-de-Seine in France, just west of Paris. Immediately adjacent to the city, the area is composed of mostly select residentia ...

. He is best known as the lead engineer for the French experimental

Aérotrain The Aérotrain was an experimental Tracked Air Cushion Vehicle (TACV), or hovertrain, developed in France from 1965 to 1977 under the engineering leadership of Jean Bertin (1917–1975) – and intended to bring the French rail network to the c ...

mass transit system. He studied at the

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, Savoi ...

(graduating in 1938) and at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace. From 1944 he worked for the French National Society for the Development of Aircraft Engines ( Société nationale d'études et de construction de moteurs d'aviation). In 1955 he founded the company Bertin & Cie, whose most famous activity was the development of the

. Bertin died just over a year and a half after the French government had terminated the contract for a planned Aérotrain line between Cergy and La Défense.Biography of Jean Bertin
''aernav.free.fr'', accessed 12 June 2018

References

French aerospace engineers École Polytechnique alumni Supaéro alumni 20th-century French engineers 1917 births 1975 deaths 20th-century French inventors Space program of France {{France-scientist-stub