André Cailleux

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

He obtained a broad education as a natural scientist in Paris. In 1931 he received his licentiate in physics, in 1932 in natural sciences and in 1933 in literature and in 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 grammar schools in Warsaw , Brest and at the Lycée Marcelin-Berthelot in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés before becoming head of research in physical geography at the Faculté des lettres de Paris . He was then Maître de conférences at the Laboratory for Geomorphology of the École pratique des hautes études in Paris, and from 1958 was Professor of Geology ( Sedimentology ) at the Sorbonne and at Laval University in Québec, Canada. He has also taught in Sherbrooke , Québec , Canada and in Rio de Janeiro .

Cailleux was a specialist in glacial morphology and geomorphology, but dealt with many areas (including biogeography, for example ) and wrote several popular science books, particularly within the Que sais-je? Line. He was the founder of the ACDS ( Association pour la création et la diffusion Scientifique ), which published the journal DIRE.

He conducted field research in the Antarctic (1960/61 he was the French representative in the US Antarctic expeditions), on Greenland , in Canada , on Iceland , in the Sahara , in Brazil and Guyana . André Cailleux spoke seven languages ​​(in addition to French, English, German, Russian, Polish, Spanish and Italian). He was a member of the committee for the "International Quaternary Map of Europe" and President of the "International Commission for Periglacial Morphology".

Together with Jean Tricart, Cailleux was the founder of the Revue de géomorphologie dynamique and co-editor of the journal for geomorphology, the Cahiers géologiques , and from 1963 to 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 Göttingen Academy of Sciences and the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (since 1955). In 1961 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Polish University of Łódź . The Québéc Quaternary Society ( Association Québécoise pour l'étude du Quaternaire ) awards him the “Cailleux Medal” in his honor. A 50-kilometer crater on the Earth's moon is named after him (60 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ S; 153 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ E).

Books

• Les actions éoliennes périglaciaires en Europe , Memoire Societe Geologique 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 Détermination pratique des roches , Center Documentation Universitaire, 2 volumes, 1952
• Les Roches , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais je ?, 1952, 1959
• with V. Romanovsky La Glace et les glaciers , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais je ?, 1970
• with G. Taylor Cryopédologie: Etude des sols gelés , Paris: Hermann, Expeditions polaires francaises, 1954
• with A. Chavan Détermination pratique des minéraux , Paris: Sedes, 1955
• with A. Chavan Détermination pratique des fossiles , 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 je ?, 1950, 1956, 1980
• Biogéographie du monde , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais je? 1953 (later as Biogeographie mondiale , PUF 1969)
• Histoire de la Géologie , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais je ?, 1968
• L'Anatomie de la Terre , Paris: Hachette, 1968
  • German translation The unknown planet. Anatomy of the earth , Fischer paperback 1972
  • English translation: Anatomy of the Earth , McGraw Hill 1968
• La terre et son histoire , Presses Universitaires de France, series: Que sais je ?, 1978
• L'Antarctique , Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, Series: Que sais je? 1967
• Trent million des siècles de vie , A. Bonne, Paris 1959 (published under the name Cayeux)
  • English translation: Three billion years of life , Stein and Day, New York 1968
• Code exopolaire pour déterminer la couleur des sols , Boubée, Paris, 1959.
• Géologie de la région parisienne , Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1960.
• Dictionnaire des racines scientifiques , Paris, Center Docum. Univ., Constans, 1961.
• with Jean Tricart Traité de géomorphologie , Sedes, Paris:
  • Volume 1 Introduction à la géomorphologie 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
• La science de la Terre , Bordas, 1969.
• with others Focus Connaissance de la matière , Bordas, 1972
• La Terre , Bordas, 1981.

Web links

• French biography of Fernand Verger