Jean Jouzel

Jean Jouzel (2010)

Jean Jouzel (born March 5, 1947 in Janzé ( Département Ille-et-Vilaine )) is a French climatologist and glaciologist .

During his studies, Jouzel earned a degree in chemistry (1967) and a maîtrise in physical chemistry (1968). In 1974 he received his doctorate with a thesis on the properties of deuterium and tritium at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay .

In 2002 he was awarded the gold medal of the Center national de la recherche scientifique for his services in researching ice cores and received the Roger Revelle Medal in 2003 .

In his role as Research Director of the French Atomic Energy Agency, Jouzel heads the Pierre Simon Laplace Institute , which studies global change processes.

Jouzel has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since 1994 and was involved as an expert in Working Group I “The Physical Science Basis” on the second and third assessment reports . In 2007, as Vice-Chair, he was again involved in a responsible position in the preparation of the fourth assessment report . As a member of the IPCC, he and Al Gore won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize .

Since 1989 he has been a full member of the Academia Europaea . In 2016 Jouzel was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2017 to the Académie des Sciences .

In 2018, Jouzel was one of the 200 signatories of an appeal in the newspaper Le Monde , in which it was warned of drastic consequences such as the extinction of human species, unless a rapid rethinking of problem areas such as climate change and the extinction of species and wider planetary limits occurs.

Publications (selection)

• Le défi climatique: objectif: 2 ° C! , Paris: Dunod, DL 2014, 2014, ISBN 978-2-100705-276
• The white planet: the evolution and future of our frozen world , Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-691144-993
• Le climat: jeu dangereux: dernières nouvelles de la planète , Paris: Dunod, DL 2007, ISBN 978-2-100509-874

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean Jouzel in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Portrait ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on www.cnrs.fr.  
2. ↑ CNRS 2002 Gold Medal Awards ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on www.cnrs.fr.  
3. ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on www.sfc07.fr.  
4. ↑ Members ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homepage Working Group I.  
5. ↑ The Nobel Prize for Peace 2007 ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at www.nobelpreis.org.  
6. ^ Membership directory: Jean Jouzel. Academia Europaea, accessed September 5, 2017 . 
7. ↑ https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/09/03/le-plus-grand-defi-de-l-histoire-de-l-humanite-l-appel-de-200-personnalites -pour-sauver-la-planete_5349380_3232.html