Emmanuel Villermaux

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C. R. Mecanique 340 (2012) 739Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirectComptes Rendus Mecaniquewww.sciencedirect.comZeldo the YoungerCreation is a personal endeavour. Hence, there are only few examples in history of filiations with the Younger havingpursued in the footsteps of the Elder. Note that ‘Younger’ should not be confused with ‘Little’, the less pleasant adjectiveVictor Hugo had gratified Napoléon the 3rd to contrast him with Napoléon the 1st, the real one. Pline, Seneca in philosophy,Cranach, Brueghel in painting have honoured their fields under both the father and son’s names. The Albrecht Dürer, fatherand son, did not only share the same technique (engraving), but also the same first name. In physics, the Bragg’s wereactually working together (and shared the same Nobel Prize), but real filiations include Niels with son Aage Bohr, and IrèneCurie for having seconded, in more than one sense, her mother Marie.It is not the least of Paul Clavin’s (Fig. 1) paradoxes that, despite his self-proclaimed independence in many areas of life,his scientific work has been to a large extent inspired by a distant (in space and time) mentor. Not only the style, but alsothe topics he has chosen to develop, even the order he has addressed them sequentially closely follow those in the worksof Yakov B. Zeldovich; This is the reason why we like to call Paul, with kind respect, Zeldo the Younger.Emmanuel VillermauxFig. 1. Paul Clavin in his office at IRPHE in March 2006 (picture by E. Villermaux).1631-0721/2012 Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Académie des sciences.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crme.2012.11.001

Zeldo the Younger

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Zeldo the Younger

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