Louis Legendre (oceanographer)
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Louis Legendre (; born 16 February 1945) is a Canadian-trained oceanographer whose later career took him to France.


Education

Legendre degreed in liberal arts (B.A.) and sciences (B.Sc., Zoology) at the University of Montreal in 1964 and 1967, respectively. He degreed in oceanography (Ph.D.) at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) in 1971.


Academic career

Legendre joined the faculty at
Laval University Laval means ''The Valley'' in old French and is the name of: People * House of Laval, a French noble family originating from the town of Laval, Mayenne * Laval (surname) Places Belgium * Laval, a village in the municipality of Sainte-Ode, Luxe ...
in 1973, rising to full professor in 1981. In 2000, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and was director of the Villefranche Oceanography Laboratory. In 2009, he took a position at the
Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...
(as of 2018,
Sorbonne University Sorbonne University () is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to the Middle Ages in 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de Sorbon as a constituent college of the Unive ...
). He is a professor emeritus at Laval University and at Sorbonne University. He is a Fellow of the
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and a Knight of the Order of Saint-Charles.


Select awards and honours

* 1985 – Prix Léo-Pariseau, ACFAS * 1986 – Michel-Jurdant Prize (with Pierre Legendre), ACFAS * 1988 – Fellow,
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* 1997 –
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,
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* 1997 – Honorary Doctorate,
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, Belgium * 2001 – ECI Prize * 2002 – Fellow, International Ecology Institute * 2002 – G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography * 2011 –
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, Order of Saint-Charles,
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* 2016 – Elected Fellow, European Academy of Sciences * 2017 – Sustaining Fellow, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography


Selected publications

*''Numerical Ecology'' (2012)


References

1945 births Living people Canadian oceanographers Dalhousie University alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Knights of the Order of Saint-Charles Scientists from Montreal Université de Montréal alumni Academic staff of Université Laval Foreign members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences {{Canada-scientist-stub