Claude Lorius
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Claude Lorius (27 February 1932 – 21 March 2023) was a French glaciologist. He was director emeritus of research at CNRS. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988.
Lorius took part in more than 20 polar expeditions, mostly to Antarctica, and helped organise many international collaborations, notably the Vostok Station ice core. He was instrumental in the discovery and interpretation of the palaeo-atmosphere information within ice cores.
Lorius died on 21 March 2023, at the age of 91.[1]
Awards
- Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur, 2020
- Bower Medal and Prize, Franklin Institute, 2017, 2017
- Commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, 2009
- Blue Planet Prize, 2008
- Vernadsky medal of the EGU, 2006 [2]
- CNRS Gold medal, 2002
- Balzan Prize 2001 for climatology
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1996
- Officer of the Légion d'honneur, 1998
- Member of the French Academy of Sciences, 1994
- Italgas Prize, 1994
- Belgica Medal, 1989
- Humboldt Prize, 1988
Bibliography
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- L'Antarctique, (1997) with Roger Gendrin, coll. « Dominos », éditions Flammarion, Template:ISBN
- 365 jours sous les glaces de l'antarctique (tr. "365 days on the ice of Antarctica"), (2008) with Roland Schlich et Djamel Tahi, éditions Glénat Template:ISBN
- Lorius, Claude; Carpentier, Laurent (2011). Voyage dans l'anthropocène: cette nouvelle ère dont nous sommes les héros. (in French). Paris: Actes Sud Template:ISBN
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- Mémoires sauvées des glaces (tr. "Memories saved from the ice"), (2016) story collected by Djamel Tahi, Flammarion editions, Template:ISBN
See also
- Ice and the Sky, a documentary film about Lorius' work in Antarctica
References
External links
- – biography in French or English
- Claude Lorius International Balzan Prize Foundation
- Pages with script errors
- 1932 births
- 2023 deaths
- 20th-century French scientists
- 20th-century French earth scientists
- 21st-century French earth scientists
- French climatologists
- French glaciologists
- Scientists from Besançon
- University of Franche-Comté alumni
- Members of the French Academy of Sciences
- Commanders of the Legion of Honour
- French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists
- Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Members of Academia Europaea
- Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
- Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates