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Lucien Bull Later Life and Death

In 1993 after the World War I broke out when Lucien joined the war effort developing systems for the high-speed photographic analyses of ballistics and for locating enemy gun batteries via a sound ranging device, he was appointed to the National Office of Research and Invention in France. After this in 1948 Bull became the president of the Institution of Scientific Cinematography in Paris. His work is eventually listed by Dr.W. Hinsch in Research Film for December 1953. He continued his research well in to the 1950s, still publishing papers on high-speed cinematography and had a profound influence on many branches of engineering and science. Although Bull was from Ireland, he settled in France which is where he spent the majority of his later life. However, he did visit Ireland several times throughout this period. As Bull never married, he had many friends who admired him and was still receiving visitors to tea in his Paris flat in 1971. Described by a close friend Bull was this ‘tiny, bird-like, lovable figure, with an irrepressible sense of humour, and an ability to bring pleasure to those around him’. Bull received several deserved honours for his significant work. Among the honours he received were the Legion of honours, the Order of Merit, an Academy of Sciences Laureate, several gold medals for scientific research from French institutions and an OBE from the British Government.

Lucien Bull died in his Paris flat at the age of ninety-five on the 25th of August, in the year 1972.