de l'Espace de Toulouse 2002 Member of the l'Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique 2001 European Latsis Prize in 2001. 2000 Membre associé étranger de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris (France) 1997 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 1999 Fellow of AGU 1996 Chevalier (Belgian Knight) by His Majesty Albert II, King of the Belgians. Motto is Lux Scientia et Labore. 1995 The Prix quinquennal A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart of the Belgian National Funds for Scientific Research for 1991-1995. 1994 Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award from the World Meteorological Organization (1994). 1994 Milutin Milankovic Medal from the European Geophysical Society (1994). 1989 Member of Academia Europaea 1989 Golden Award of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) 1987 Honorary member of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) 1987 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen 1984 Prix Charles Lagrange de la Classe des Sciences of the Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (20e période quadriennale 1980-1984) 1980 Prize of the first biennal 1979-80 of the Societa Italiana di Fisica He is Officier de la Légion d'honneur (see citation) (2010), Grand officier de l'Ordre de la Couronne (see citation) (2007), and Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold (1989) He is part of the stamp sheet "This is Belgium 2007" with eight other Belgian scientists (see citation) and of the Gallery of Geniuses of the Coimbra Group Universities at the University of Jena. In 2008 he was among the 35 greatest Belgian scientists selected by the Belgian Universities and Eos Science. (see citation) He received the Silver Medal of His Holiness Pope Paul VI in 1979. Bibliography See also List of climate scientists References Belgian knights 1942 births Université catholique de Louvain alumni Academic staff of the Université catholique de Louvain Grand Officers of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Belgian climatologists Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change contributing authors Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Living people Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada