Louis Lliboutry
Louis Lliboutry | |
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Lliboutry on top of Cerro Polo, facing Fitz Roy, 1954 | |
| Born | Louis Antonin François Lliboutry 19 February 1922 |
| Died | 21 October 2007 (aged 85) |
| Citizenship | French |
| Education | École Normale Supérieure |
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| Known for | Founder and director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement |
| Spouse | Claude Micanel |
| Children | 2 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Glaciology and Geodynamics |
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| Thesis | L'aimantation des aciers dans les champs magnétiques faibles : effets des tensions, des chocs, des champs magnétiques transversaux (1950) |
| Doctoral advisor | Louis Néel |
Louis Lliboutry (1922–2007), born in Spain, was a French glaciologist, geophysicist, university professor and mountaineer. While in Chile in the early 1950s, he analysed and explained the formation of snow penitents in the Andes, which marked his first contribution to glaciology. He founded in Grenoble in 1958 the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement and headed it for 25 years; he also set up at that period a pioneering syllabus in geophysics. His contributions to mechanics of viscous media (such as ice and the Earth's mantle) and to geodynamics are internationally acknowledged.