Jean-Marie Robine (born 1951) is a French social scientist, who works in the field of demography and gerontology, and is an author and journalist,
who is best known as being the co-validator of the
longevity
Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas ''life expectancy'' is defined Statistics, statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth ...
of
Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian. With a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, she was the oldest people, oldest person in history whose age has been verified. Her longevity at ...
, the oldest verified
supercentenarian
A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until short ...
of all time, with whom he collaborated.
Robine has been instrumental in organizing international efforts to study supercentenarians, through workshops held at the
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
The Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) is located in Rostock, Germany. It was founded in 1996 by James Vaupel and moved into new buildings in Rostock in 2002. It is one of approximately 80 institutes of the Max Planck Society ...
and by founding the International Database on Longevity. Robine currently has the largest European supercentenarian dataset, and also collaborates with Japanese demographer Yasuhiko Saito.
Publications
* ''Jeanne Calment: From Van Gogh's Time to Ours : 122 Extraordinary Years'' by Michel Allard, Victor Lebre, Jean-Marie Robine and Jeanne Calment (Hardcover - Oct 1998)
* ''Longevity and Frailty (Research and Perspectives in Longevity)'' by J.R. Carey, Jean-Marie Robine, J.-P. Michel and Yves Christen (Hardcover - Jun 22, 2005)
* ''Determining Health Expectancies'' by Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, Colin D. Mathers and Eileen M. Crimmins (Hardcover - Jan 17, 2003)
* ''Brain and Longevity'' by Caleb E. Finch, Jean-Marie Robine and Yves Christen (Hardcover - Jan 31, 2003)
* ''Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-Old Population (International Studies in Population)'' by Jean-Marie Robine, Eileen M. Crimmins, Shiro Horiuchi and Yi Zeng (Paperback - Sep 2007)
* ''Sex and Longevity: Sexuality, Gender, Reproduction, Parenthood (Research and Perspectives in Longevity)'' by Jean-Marie Robine, Thomas B. L. (Tom) Kirkwood and Michel Allard (Hardcover - Dec 2000)
* ''Longer Life and Healthy Aging (International Studies in Population)'' by Yi Zeng, Eileen M. Crimmins, Yves Carrière and Jean-Marie Robine (Paperback - Feb 2007)
* ''The Paradoxes of Longevity (Research and Perspectives in Longevity)'' by Jean-Marie Robine, Bernard Forette, Claudio Franceschi and Michel Allard (Hardcover - Aug 1999)
Selected journal articles
* ''Survival beyond Age 100: The Case of Japan'' by Jean-Marie Robine and Yasuhiko Saito
* Population and Development Review, Vol. 29, Supplement: ''Life Span: Evolutionary, Ecological, and Demographic Perspectives'' (2003), pp. 208–228
See also
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Longevity
Longevity may refer to especially long-lived members of a population, whereas ''life expectancy'' is defined Statistics, statistically as the average number of years remaining at a given age. For example, a population's life expectancy at birth ...
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Oldest people
The following are tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body deali ...
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List of the verified oldest people
These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment
Jeanne Louise Calment (; 21 February 18 ...
References
External links
The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)International Database on Longevity (IDL)The population of centenarians in Brazil: historical estimates from 1900 to 2000
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French demographers
French gerontologists
Living people
1951 births