Andre Cailleux

Andre de Cayeux de Senarpont , known as Andre Cailleux , born with Paris the December 24th 1907 and died in Saint-Maur-of-Ditches the December 27th 1986, is a geographer and French, known geologist to have given its rise to the Morphoscopie of sands.

He worked in particular with Jean Tricart and Audouin Dollfus.

He is the author moreover 20 works and dictionaries and approximately 600 scientific publications relating primarily to the Géologie, the physical Géographie, the Sciences of the Earth and the Planétologie. A crater of the the Moon bears its name.

It is aggregate of Natural science, science doctor natural, bachelor of science physics, holder of an arts degree and of a certificate of deepened astronomy, Member of the scientific Commission of polar forwardings, Commissions of glaciology and hydrology, chair periglacial International commission of morphology, member of the Committee of the chart of Quaternary of Europe. University lecturer with the Sorbonne, it founded the Revue dynamic geomorphology and publishes in fields as varied as geology, prehistory, astronomy, the geography, pedology, the glaciology, biogeography, ecology, the philosophy and many other subjects still.

Member of many geological missions in all the parts of the world, it represents the French government near antarctic American polar forwardings (1960 - 1961). Appointed professor of Sedimentology in 1958 in the Sorbonne, it teaches then with the Université Laval, then at the universities of Rio de Janeiro and Sherbrooke.

He is member of the Académie léopoldine (Germany), of the Academy of geography of the Republic of Argentine, correspondent of the academies of Bavaria and Göttingen, honorary doctor of the university of Łódź in 1961, prize winner of the Academy of Science in 1948 and the Malouet price of the Academy of Science morals and political in 1946.

He chairs the Standing Committee of the International union for the study of quaternary as a specialist in the periglacial morphology, the international association of planetology (1979) and the French company of geochemistry (1961).

The medal André Cailleux is decreed by Québécois Association for the study of the quaternary one.

Publications

  • Détermination practices rocks , University Center Documentation, 2 volumes, 1952. With A. Chavan.
  • the Rocks , University Presses of France, Paris, 1952.
  • Geology , University Presses of France, Paris, 1952.
  • world Biogeography , University Presses of France, Paris, 1953.
  • Ice and the glaciers , University Presses of France, Paris, 1953. With V. Romanovsky.
  • Cryopédologie , Hermann, Paris, 1954.
  • Détermination practices minerals , Sedes, Paris, 1957. With A. Chavan.
  • Détermination practices fossils , Masson, Paris, 1957. With A. Chavan.
  • Geology of the Paris region , University Presses of France, Paris, 1960.
  • History of Geology , University Presses of France, Paris, 1961.
  • the Antarctic , University Presses of France, Paris, 1967.
  • Anatomy of the Earth , Hatchet, Paris, 1968.

  • Arctic Ground, Artaud, 1948.

  • Initiation being studied of sands and rollers, 3 vol., Paris, Docum Center. Univ., 1959.
  • Code exopolaire to determine the color of the grounds, Boubée, Paris, 1959.
  • Dictionary of the scientific roots, Paris, Docum Center. Univ., Constans, 1961.
  • the science of the Earth, Bordered, 1969.
  • Focus Knowledge of the matter, Bordas, 1972 (in participation).
  • the Earth, Bordered, 1981.

External bond

  • Biographical note and bibliographical

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