Pierre Hupé

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Pierre Hupé (born March 22, 1907 in Baye (Marne) , † August 23, 2003 in Paris ) was a French paleontologist .

Hupé studied natural sciences in Strasbourg and Nancy , where he passed the final exams ( Agrégation ) in 1931 with top marks and did research with the geneticist Lucien Cuénot . Hupé was also an excellent draftsman, for which he also won prizes at the university. Then he was a high school teacher for science. In the 1930s he undertook the first geological studies on behalf of Professor Charles Jacob in the Pyrenees. During World War II he was an artillery officer and received the Croix de guerre . From 1945 to 1949 he worked for the CNRS and from 1951 at the Geology Laboratory of the Sorbonne . In 1960 he received a full professor of paleontology at the Sorbonne (later the University of Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie) and founded there in 1967 the laboratory for paleontology of invertebrates, of which he was director until his retirement in 1977. It was disbanded in 1987.

He is known for some classical works on trilobites , in particular their classification (he published a revised classification of trilobites in the 1950s) and the trilobites of the Lower Cambrian in Morocco , which he also used for the detailed stratigraphy of the Cambrian of the region. For his work, initially undertaken at the invitation of the Service Geologique du Maroc from 1952, and culminating in a monograph on the Lower and Middle Cambrian and Ordovician in southern Morocco, he won international recognition and received the Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal in 1957 . In 1959 he received his doctorate with Nouvelle contribution al´etude du Cambrien Marocain .

He bequeathed part of his trilobite collection to the University of Rennes I and part to the Natural History Museum in Havre.

Fonts

  • Classe des Trilobites, in J. Piveteau (editor) Traité de Paléontologie , Volume 3, Masson 1953, pp. 44-246
  • Classification des Trilobites, Annales de Paléontologie, 1953, 1955
  • Contribution al´etude du Cambrien inferieur et du Precambrien III de l´Antiatlas marocain, Notes et Memoires, Service des Mines et de la Carte geologique du Maroc, Volume 103, 1953, pp. 1-402, with 24 plates

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The work later formed the basis for the classification in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology
personal data
SURNAME Hupé, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Baye (Marne)
DATE OF DEATH August 23, 2003
Place of death Paris