Claude Lorius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Claude Lorius

French climatologist

Date of Birth: 27-Feb-1932

Place of Birth: Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Profession: climatologist, glaciologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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. 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.