Jean Jouzel

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Jean Jouzel in 2010

Jean Jouzel, (born 1947) is a French glaciologist and climatologist. He is a world renowned specialist in major climatic shifts based on his analysis of Antarctic and Greenland ice. He received with Claude Lorius the CNRS gold medal, the highest French scientific award.^[1]

He has spent his research career in CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique) which is the French nuclear public organization. In 1991 he became vice president of LMCE which is a CEA laboratory dedicated to environment and climate; in 1995 research director; in 1998 director of climate research of LSCE which resulted from the fusion of LMCE with another environmental research laboratory; from 2001 to 2008 director of IPSL (Institut Pierre Simon Laplace) which is a major federative laboratory on climate research in Paris region, including CEA LSCE.

References

↑ "UCL–French Embassy Conférence-Débat Series 2010/2011". University College London. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010.

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Biography in French or English

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 65727085 LCCN: n95117097 ISNI: 0000 0001 2281 0635 BNF: cb128327674

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Name	Jouzel, Jean
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Date of birth	1947
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