André Berger

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André Berger (2008)

André Léon Georges Chevalier Berger (born July 30, 1943 in Acloz ) is a Belgian climatologist and professor at the Université catholique de Louvain .

Berger studied at the Catholic University of Leuven, where he received his doctorate in 1973. He also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in meteorology in 1971. He then became professor of climatology and meteorology at the Catholic University of Leuven.

He contributed to paleoclimatology and was involved in the renaissance of the Milanković theory of astronomical influences on the earth's climate in the 1970s by developing the theory much further. He drew attention to global warming due to human influence as early as the 1970s.

He was chairman of the International Climate Commission and the International Paleoclimate Commission, President of the European Geophysical Society and is Honorary President of the European Geosciences Union . Berger is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Royal Meteorological Society and one of the founders of the International Polar Foundation (1999).

In 2001 he was awarded the European Latsis Prize , in 1991 the Prix Quinquennal of the Belgian National Research Fund and in 2010 the Prix Georges-Lemaître of the Support Group of the Catholic University of Leuven. In 2008 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He is a member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique , the Academia Europaea and an external member of the Academie des Sciences , the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences. Berger is an officer of the Legion of Honor and the Order of the Leopold . He was ennobled in Belgium.

He has multiple honorary doctorates (Université d'Aix-Marseille III, Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse, Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, University of Massachusetts at Amherst).

Fonts

  • Le climat de la terre: un passé pour quel avenir?, Brussels: De Boeck Université 1992
  • Milankovitch Theory and Climate, Review of Geophysics, Volume 26, 1988, pp. 624-657.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berger: Long-term variations of daily insolation and Quaternary Climatic Changes . Journal of Atmospheric Science, Volume 35, 1978, pp. 2362-2367
  2. ^ Berger: Support for the astronomical theory of climatic change . Nature, Vol. 268, 1977, pp. 44-45
personal data
SURNAME Berger, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, André Léon Georges Chevalier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian climatologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Acloz