Claude Allègre
Claude Allègre ( born March 31, 1937 in Paris ) is a French politician and geologist. He was in the years 1997 to 2000, the French Minister of Education and Research and Technology.
Life
Allègre was childhood friend of Lionel Jospin. He studied geochemistry and was one of the leading experts in the field of lunar rocks. In 1976, he clashed on the issue of evacuation of the area around the volcano erupted La Soufrière in Guadeloupe with the volcanologist Haroun Tazieff. From 1976 to 1986 he was director of the Paris Institute of Physics du Globe.
Politically, he was active in the socialist camp. He was responsible for the coordination of experts to make their expertise politically usable. He was a consultant Jospin in its time as education minister and was partly responsible for that wearing the headscarf was declared admissible on French educational institutions. From 1989 to 1994 he was an MEP of the Socialists. Allègre 1992 became President of the French Office of Geological and Mining Research. Controversial was his advocacy of the use of asbestos.
On 4 June 1997 called Lionel Jospin, now Prime Minister, his old friend the cabinet. As Minister of National Education, Research and Technology, among others, he put forward a plan to curb violence in schools. On 28 March 2000 he gave up his office. New education minister Jack Lang.
Position to the controversy surrounding the Global Warming
Allègre is skeptical of the hypothesis of a mainly caused by anthropogenic CO2 global warming and to publish in 2010 a book, which has been sharply criticized for a number of possible errors and fraud.
Awards
He was awarded the Crafoord Prize, one of the highest awards in geology (1986, together with Joseph Gerald Wasserburg ), the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London and the Gold Medal of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.