André Cailleux

André Paul Cailleux ( born December 24, 1907 in Paris as André de Cayeux de Senarpont, † December 27, 1986 in Saint- Maur- des-Fosses ) was a French geologist and geographer. He later published under the pseudonym Cailleux initially but also under its original name Cayeux.

He acquired in Paris a broad training as a scientist. In 1931 he received his degree in physics, 1932 in Science and Literature in 1933 and 1936 his Agrégation in natural sciences. In 1942 he received his doctorate in Paris with a thesis on periglacial phenomena in the European Quaternary. He taught at high schools in Warsaw, Brest and at the Lycée Marcelin Berthelot in Saint- Maur - des -Fosses before he became head of research in physical geography at the Faculté des lettres de Paris. After that he was Maître de conférences at the Laboratory of the Ecole Pratique des geomorphology Hautes Etudes in Paris, was from 1958 Professor of Geology ( Sedimentology ) at the Sorbonne and at the University of Laval in Quebec, Canada. He also taught in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and Rio de Janeiro.

Cailleux was a specialist in Glazialmorphologie and geomorphology, but dealt with many areas ( for example, with biogeography ) and wrote several popular science books, especially within the Que sais - je? Series. He was the founder of the ACDS ( Association pour la création et la diffusion Scientifique ), which brought out the magazine DIRE.

He did field research among other things, in the Antarctic ( 1960/61, he was a French representative to the U.S. Antarctic expeditions ), in Greenland, Canada, in Iceland, in the Sahara, in Brazil and Guyana. André Cailleux spoke seven languages ​​( along with French, English, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish and Italian). He was a member of the Committee for the " International Quartärkarte of Europe " and president of the " International Commission on periglacial morphology ".

Cailleux was with Jean Tricart founder of the Revue de dynamique geomorphology and co-editor of the Journal of geomorphology, Cahiers Geologiques, and 1963-1971 of the Annales de Géographie.

In 1972 he received the Albrecht Penck Medal. He was a member of the Leopoldina ( since 1973), the Bavarian and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. In 1961 he was made an honorary Doctor of Polish University of Łódź. The Quartärgesellschaft of Québéc ( Association pour l' étude du Québécoise Quaternaire ) lends his honor the " Cailleux Medal". A 50 km diameter crater on Earth's Moon is named after him (60 ° 48 '0 "S, 153 ° 18' 0" E ).

• Les actions éoliennes périglaciaires en Europe, Societe Geologique Memoire de France 21, Paris 1942, 1948 ( published under the name Cayeux )
• Terre arctique, Arthaud, Paris, 3rd edition, 1949 ( published under the name Cayeux )
• With A. Chavan Determination pratique des roches, Centre Documentation Universitaire, 2 volumes, 1952
• Les Roches, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais ever, 1952, 1959
• With V. Romanovsky La Glace et les glaciers, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Row: Que sais ever in 1970?
• With G. Taylor Cryopédologie: Etude des sols gel, Paris: Hermann, Expeditions polaires francaises, 1954
• With A. Chavan Determination of minéraux pratique, Paris: Sedes, 1955
• With A. Chavan Determination of fossil pratique, Paris: Masson, 1957
• With G. Plaisance Dictionnaire des sols, La Maison Rustique, Paris 1958
• ' Guide de travaux pratique de géologie, 3 volumes, SPCN, Paris 1959
• With Jean Tricart Initiation à l' etude des sables et galets, 3 volumes, Sedes, Paris 1959
• La Géologie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais ever, 1950, 1956, 1980
• Biogeography du monde, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Row: Que sais je? 1953 ( later mondiale as biogeography, PUF, 1969)
• Histoire de la Géologie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Row: Que sais ever in 1968?
• L' anatomy de la Terre, Paris: Hachette, 1968 German translation The unknown planet. Anatomy of the Earth, Fischer Taschenbuch 1972
• English Translation: Anatomy of the Earth, McGraw Hill 1968

• English Translation: Three billion years of life, Stein and Day, New York 1968

• Band 1Introduction à la geomorphology climatique 1965
• Volume 2 Le modelé des régions périglaciaires, 1967
• Volume 4 Le modelé des régions sèches, 1969
• Volume 5 Le modelé des régions chaudes. Forêts et savanes, 2nd edition 1974