Marie-Lise Chanin
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Marie-Lise Chanin | |
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| Born | 26 September 1934 Angers, France |
| Occupation | Director of Research Emerita at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) |
Marie-Lise Chanin (Marie-Lise, Paule, Andrée Lory; born 26 September 1934 in Angers) is a French geophysicist, aeronomist,[1] director of research emerita at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and author of works on the physics of the upper and middle atmosphere.
Training and activities
Marie-Lise Lory had planned to study at the Beaux-Arts but is studied natural sciencesː she took a bachelor's degree in mathematics, then studied physics (quantum optics). On the advice of Alfred Kastler and Jean Brossel[2] she entered a laboratory created at the École normale supérieure, the Aeronomy Department. She gets married and has a son.
She obtained her licence de sciences in 1957, and her doctorate ès sciences in 1965. In 1959, she had joined the CNRS as a research trainee, where she spent her entire professional career until her academic retirement in 2000, having become research director in 1986.
She was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences on 26 March 1990, in the Sciences of the Universe section.[3] Throughout her career, she assumed many responsibilities[3] member of the High Council of Meteorology, member of the Environment Committee of the French Academy of sciences (since 2005), French representative to the ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions), member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Unconventional Hydrocarbons, President of the French National Committee of Geodesy and Geophysics (1986–1990), among others.
She is also a member of the French Academy of Technologies, the Académie de l'Air et de l'Espace and the Academia Europaea.
