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. Awards commandeur of the Légion d'honneur, 2009 Blue Planet Prize, 2008 Vernadsky medal of the EGU, 2006 CNRS Gold medal, 2002 Balzan Prize 2001 for climatology Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1996 officer of the Légion d'honneur, 1998 member of the French Academy of Sciences, 1994 Italgas Prize, 1994 Belgica Medal, 1989 Humboldt Prize, 1988 Bower Medal and Prize, Franklin Institute, 2017, 2017 Bibliography Lorius, Claude; Carpentier, Laurent (2011). Voyage dans l'anthropocène: cette nouvelle ère dont nous sommes les héros. (in French). Paris: Actes Sud (originally released in 1987 written by Bertrand Imbert, Claude Lorius is the co-author of the revised edition released in 2007) U.S. edition – UK edition – See also Ice and the Sky, a documentary film about Lorius' work in Antarctica External links – biography in French or English Claude Lorius International Balzan Prize Foundation 20th-century French scientists 20th-century earth scientists 21st-century French scientists 21st-century earth scientists French climatologists French glaciologists 1932 births Living people Scientists from Besançon Members of the French Academy of Sciences Commandeurs of the Légion d'honneur French National Centre for Scientific Research scientists Foreign Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Members of Academia Europaea Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research