Georges Jean Marie Darrieus
Georges Jean Marie Darrieus (24 September 1888 – 15 July 1979) was a French aeronautical engineer in the 20th century. He is perhaps most famous for his invention of the Darrieus rotor, a wind turbine capable of operating from any direction and under adverse weather conditions, and the vertical-axis giromill.
The invention is described in the 1931 U.S. Patent 1,835,018.
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- French aerospace engineers
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- 20th-century French inventors
- Wind turbines
- 1888 births
- 1979 deaths
- Fluid dynamicists
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