Adieu to Pierre WILLM
Pierre Willm, a French military naval Architect (Ingénieur général de l’armement-Génie maritime) died March 28, 2018, the eve of the day of his 92 years. Pierre Willm is, with his partner Captain Houot who died in 1977, the father of the French bathyscaphes: FNRS III and Archimedes, the latter having reached a world record in July 1962 at 9545 m depth in the Kuril Trench off the coast of Japan. Called to the French Petroleum Institute as Marine Scientific Director (1963-87), he oversees projects of deep submergence vehicules Argyronete and Saga. Officer of the Legion of honor, Commander in the National order of merit, Pierre Willm was member of the Academy of Marine. He was Vice-president of the ATMA from 1990 to 1998. He was since 1998 Vice President of honor. The ATMA pays tribute to this great engineer, passionate about technology and maritime adventure.
Pierre Willm in front of the ’Archimède at the la cité de la Mer in Cherbourg ( Cité de la Mer)
Biography: see papers list 2021
All announcements
- 2020 ATMA Award for the best end of study project
- ATMA award: Best end of study project (2021)
- 2021 award Roger BRARD
- General Assembly ATMA 2021
- ATMA session 2020 – Best conference
- ATMA session 2019 – Best conference
- 2019 ATMA Award for Best End-Study Project
- ATMA session 2017 – Best conferences
- FAST 2017 - ATMA Awards
- ATMA session 2016 – Best conferences
- ATMA session 2015 – Best conferences
- Granting of the 2015 CEMT award
- ATMA session 2014 – Best conferences
- ATMA session 2013 – Best conferences
- Granting of the 2013 CEMT award
- ATMA session 2012 – Best conferences
- Publications Downloading of ATMA papers
- Publication Cybersecurity in the maritime world
- Publication: Bridging the seas - Larrie FERREIRO
- Publication: La grande histoire vue de la mer - Christian Buchet
- Publication: The submarine technology (Aout 2016)
- Publication: Compendium of ship hydrodynamics (January 2016)
- Publication: Rogues waves - Anatomy of a monster (June 2017)
- ATMA CMF member (French Maritime Cluster)
- ATMA CEMT member
- Naval architect and marine engineer in Europe, an exciting career
- Maritime European research - Toward the future
- Adieu to Serge BINDEL
- Adieu to Pierre WILLM
- Adieu to Bernard PARIZOT
- Adieu to Bernard NIZERY
- Adieu to Hervé CHÉNEAU
- Adieu to JEAN COUNE