Lorius (born 1932) is a French

glaciologist Glaciology (; ) is the scientific study of glaciers, or more generally ice and natural phenomena that involve ice. Glaciology is an interdisciplinary Earth science that integrates geophysics, geology, physical geography, geomorphology, climato ...

. He is director emeritus of research at

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement in

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

from 1983 to 1988. He has taken part in more than 20 polar expeditions, mostly to Antarctica, and has helped organise many international collaborations, notably the

Vostok Station Vostok Station (russian: ста́нция Восто́к, translit=stántsiya Vostók, , meaning "Station East") is a Russian research station in inland Princess Elizabeth Land, Antarctica. Founded by the Soviet Union in 1957, the station ...

ice core An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier. Since the ice forms from the incremental buildup of annual layers of snow, lower layers are older than upper ones, and an ice core contains ...

. He was instrumental in the discovery and interpretation of the palaeo-atmosphere information within ice cores.

Awards

* commandeur of the

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon B ...

, 2009 *

Blue Planet Prize The recognises outstanding efforts in scientific research or applications of science that contribute to solving global environmental problems. The prize was created by the Asahi Glass Foundation in 1992, the year of the Rio Earth Summit, and ...

, 2008 * Vernadsky medal of the EGU, 200

* CNRS Gold medal, 2002 *

Balzan Prize The International Balzan Prize Foundation awards four annual monetary prizes to people or organizations who have made outstanding achievements in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, culture, as well as for endeavours for peace and the br ...

2001 for

climatology Climatology (from Ancient Greek, Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , ''wiktionary:-logia, -logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 ...

Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement is an annual award for environmental science, environmental health, and energy. Tyler Laureates receive a $200,000 cash prize and a medallion. The prize is administered by the University of Southern Cal ...

, 1996 * officer of the

, 1998 * member of the

French Academy of Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at th ...

, 1994 * Italgas Prize, 1994 * Belgica Medal, 1989 *

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...

, 1988 * Bower Medal and Prize, Franklin Institute, 2017, 2017

Bibliography

* Lorius, Claude; Carpentier, Laurent (2011). ''Voyage dans l'anthropocène: cette nouvelle ère dont nous sommes les héros''. (in French). Paris:

Actes Sud Actes Sud is a French publishing house based in Arles. It was founded in 1978 by author Hubert Nyssen. By 2013, the company, then headed by Nyssen's daughter, Françoise Nyssen, had an annual turnover of 60 million euros and 60 staff members. ...

* (originally released in 1987 written by Bertrand Imbert, Claude Lorius is the co-author of the revised edition released in 2007) ** U.S. edition – ** UK edition – *

External links

– biography in French
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Claude Lorius
International Balzan Prize Foundation 20th-century French scientists 20th-century earth scientists 21st-century French scientists 21st-century earth scientists French climatologists French glaciologists 1932 births Living people Scientists from Besançon Members of the French Academy of Sciences Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur 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 {{Glaciologist-stub

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