Louis Dangeard

Louis Dangeard, full name Louis Marie Bernard Dangeard ( born April 29, 1898 in Poitiers, † April 15, 1987 in Paris) was a French geologist and oceanographer. He was the son of the botanist and mycologist Pierre Augustin Clément Dangeard. His brother was the botanist Pierre Jean Louis Dangeard.

Life and work

Louis Dangeard was born on 29 April 1898 in Poitiers, the youngest of four siblings. His father had come from Caen in 1891 and had a professorship at the Academy of Sciences started. In 1909 the family moved - in the meantime his mother and eldest brother had died - for professional reasons to Paris. The father had there obtained a position at the Faculty of Science.

Louis Dangeard studied in Paris geology and went in 1919 as préparateur to the Natural Sciences to Rennes. In 1923 he was hired and in 1928 he became an assistant. In the period 1922-1927 he took part in seven trips to sea exploration. They were by Jean Charcot aboard the research vessel Pourquoi Pas? performed. Target areas were the North Sea, the Bay of Biscay, and especially the English Channel. Main focus for Dangeard was the investigation of the seabed. In 1928 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the seabed of the English Channel.

In 1930 Dangeard was appointed to the Natural Sciences to Clermont- Ferrand, but switched in 1933 to the chair of geology at the Faculté des Sciences in Caen (successor by Alexandre Bigot ). In his scientific work he devoted himself to the sedimentology and petrography.

Already in January 1926 Louis Marie Bernard Dangeard had married the 22 -year-old Louise Marie Joseph Marcille ( 1902-1980 ). The marriage produced six children, Henri, Yves, Alain, Anne, Armelle and Gilles Marie Louise emerged. His chair at Caen left Dangeard Louis in 1968. His wife died in 1980, he himself in 1987 at the age of 88 years.

Memberships and Honors

Dangeard was a member of the French Geological Society. In his honor, was yet to be named, to house his vast lying under the Channel river valley as Fosse Dangeard.

Publications

Louis Dangeard: La Normandie. Volume 7 of the Albert F. de Lapparant ( Directeur de CNRS) Actualités Scientifiques et issued series 1140 Industrial Géologie Regionale de la France. Volume 7 of the series. Verlag Hermann & Cie, Paris, 1951.

Comments

1939 published Dangeard a lithological map of France surrounding seas.

For Louis Marie Bernard Dangeard also the 1899 is sometimes listed as year of birth.