Lorius, Claude

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Name (Latin)
Lorius, Claude
Other forms of name
Lorius, C. (Claude)
Date of birth
1932-02-27
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 14069
Wikidata: Q327707
Library of congress: n 81117380
Sources of Information
  • The white planet: the evolution and future of our frozen world, 2016:title page (Claude Lorius)
  • His L'utilisation des isotopes dans l'étude glaciologique des calottes polaires, 1964.
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Wikipedia description:

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.

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