Born: 22 June 1940 at Genos, France.
Married to Anna, no child. guy.gistau@orange.fr
Education:
1963, Graduated from the "Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Metiers".
Professional career:
2000 - Present: Retired
Education in "basics cryogenics" and "helium refrigeration" (eighteen sessions as of April 2007).
Cryogenic adviser.
1975 - 2000 (retirement)
In charge of helium refrigeration at Air Liquide, in the Sassenage (France) workshops.
Development of the first automatic helium refrigerator/liquefier: HELIAL.
Design, building and start up of various plants; among them: Tore Supra (300 W at 1.8 K with cryogenic compressors), 6 kW at 4.5 K, 12/18 kW at 4.5 K and LHC (18 kW at 4.5 K and 2.4 kW at 1.8 K) refrigerators for CERN. Participation to the CEBAF refrigerator (5 kW at 2.0 K, design and start up of the cryogenic compressor train).
1972 - 1975
Adviser for sales activity in specialty gases and helium for the company subsidiaries at Air Liquide head office, Paris.
1969 - 1972
Sales activity in specialty gases and helium at Air Liquide in Le Plessis Robinson (France).
1966 - 1969
Operation of an air separation plant at Air Liquide in Le Blanc Mesnil (France).
1965 - 1966
Building small helium liquefiers (with JT expansion only) at Air Liquide in the Sassenage (France) workshops.
Other activities:
Chairman of the International Cryogenic Engineering Committee (ICEC),
Member of the A1/2 commission of the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR).
Publications:
37 papers in domestic and international conferences.
9 patents in the field of helium refrigeration.
9 publications in various technical magazines and "Techniques de l¡¯Ingenieur".
Awarded the "Charles TELLIER" medal by Association Francaise du Froid in June 2007.