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Claude Lorius

French glaciologist

Died when: 91 years 22 days (1092 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Claude Lorius

[1][2] Lorius (born 1932) was a French glaciologist.He is director emeritus of research at CNRS.He was the director of the in Grenoble 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 ice core.

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

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