Maurice Lugeon

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Maurice Lugeon

Maurice Lugeon (born July 10, 1870 in Poissy near Paris, † October 26, 1953 in Chevilly , Canton of Vaud) was a Swiss geologist.

Lugeon came with his parents (his father was the sculptor David Lugeon ) to Lausanne in 1876, where he participated in the geological survey in the area of ​​Lake Geneva as a teenager and studied geology as a pupil at the University of Lausanne (as well as in Munich and Paris) by the Swiss geologist Eugène Renevier (1831–1906). After his habilitation in 1898, he was a professor in Lausanne.

In 1902 Lugeon presented a theory of the ceiling construction of the Alps (so-called ceiling theory ), with which he made significant contributions to the explanation of the geology of the Alps. He also made significant contributions to engineering geology .

In 1938 he was awarded the Wollaston Medal and in 1949 the Gustav Steinmann Medal . In 1920 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences , since 1945 he was associé étranger . He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1936 , a Foreign Member of the Royal Society since 1944 and a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1925 .

One of his students was Alphonse Jeannet .

Fonts

  • Les grandes nappes de recouvrement des Alpes du Chablais et de la Suisse . Bull. Soc.géol.France (4). 1 (1901), pp. 723-825.
  • Les grandes nappes de recouvrement des Alpes suisses , International Geological Congress Vienna 1903, Vienna 1904, pp. 477–492.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter L. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 16, 2020 (French).
  2. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  3. ^ Entry on Lugeon, Maurice (1870-1953) in the archives of the Royal Society , London
  4. ^ Foreign members of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1724. Maurice Lugeon. Russian Academy of Sciences, accessed October 2, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Lugeon, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss geologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Poissy
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1953
Place of death Chevilly