Emmanuel de Margerie

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Emmanuel de Margerie
Born
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie

(1862-11-11)11 November 1862
Died20 December 1953(1953-12-20) (aged 91)
Known forMargerie Glacier
AwardsForMemRS[1]
Cullum Geographical Medal (1919)
Lyell Medal (1921)
Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1923)
Wollaston Medal (1946)

Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS[1] (11 November 1862 – 20 December 1953) was a French geographer after whom the Margerie Glacier was named, which he visited in 1913.

Early life and family

He is the son of French catholic writer Eugène de Margerie [fr], and a member of the Jacquin de Margerie Family [fr], a French family of nobility dating back to 17th-century royal administrators of Picardy under rule of Louis XIV.[2]

Awards and honors

Margerie was awarded the

National Academy of Sciences.[4] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932.[5]

The Margerie Glacier is named in his honour.

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0014
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  2. ISBN 9782724689266
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  3. ^ "Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  4. ^ "Mary Clark Thompson Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-06-29.


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