ABSTRACT
He was then invited by Dr André Ombredane in 1947 to join the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Psychotechniques in Paris, and soon afterwards he became Professor at the Institut de Psychologie de l’Université de Paris and at the Institut National d’Orientation Professionnelle. His teaching about the adaptation of work to man was based on statistical methods and on job analysis and it led him publish a series of now classic books: Méthodes statistiques en psychologie appliquée; L’analyse du travail (with A. Ombredane) and L’adaptation de la machine à l’homme. These publications contributed significantly to the launch of the ergonomics movement in the French-speaking world.
