Claude Lorius

Claude Lorius (born 1932) is a French glaciologist. He is 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.

Contents

• Interview claude lorius et luc jacquet
• Claude lorius and paleoclimatology
• Awards
• References

He has taken part in more than 20 polar expeditions, mostly to Antarctica, and has 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.

Awards

commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, 2009

Blue Planet Prize, 2008

Vernadsky medal of the EGU, 2006 [1]

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

Bower Medal and Prize, Franklin Institute, 2017, 2017