Emmanuel de Margerie

Emmanuel de Margerie
Born
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie

(1862-11-11)11 November 1862
Died20 December 1953(1953-12-20) (aged 91)
Known forMargerie Glacier
AwardsForMemRS[1]
Cullum Geographical Medal (1919)
Lyell Medal (1921)
Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1923)
Wollaston Medal (1946)

Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS[1] (11 November 1862 – 20 December 1953) was a French geographer after whom the Margerie Glacier was named, which he visited in 1913.

Early life and family

He is the son of French catholic writer Eugène de Margerie [fr], and a member of the Jacquin de Margerie Family [fr], a French family of nobility dating back to 17th-century royal administrators of Picardy under rule of Louis XIV.[2]

Awards and honors

Margerie was awarded the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1919. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1922.[3] In 1923 de Margerie was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.[4] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932.[5]

The Margerie Glacier is named in his honour.

References

  1. ^ a b Fleure, H. J. (1955). "Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie. 1862-1953". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 185–191. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0014.
  2. ^ Kessler, Marie Christine (2012). Presses de Sciences Po (in French). France: SciencesPo, Les Presses. ISBN 9782724689266.
  3. ^ "Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  4. ^ "Mary Clark Thompson Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  5. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-06-29.


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