Xavier Le Pichon#
| Membership Number: | 70 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/xavier-le-pichon |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1986 Professor at the Collège de France
- 1984 Head of the geology department at the École Normale Supérieure
- 1978 Professor at Université P. et M. Curie (University of Paris VI)
- 1969 Head of the marine geology department of the oceanologic center of Brittany in Brest, France
- 1963 Scientific assistant at Columbia University, New York, United States
Fields of Scholarship
- Plate tectonics
Honours and Awards
- 1973 CNRS Silver Medal
- 1984 Maurice Ewing Medal from the American Geophysical Union
- 1985 William Smith lecture, Geological Society London
- 1985 member of the French Academy of Sciences
- 1985 Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 1987 Prix A.G. Huntsman de l'Institut Océanographique at Bedford, Canada
- 1987 Prince Albert of Monaco "Médaille de l'Océanographie"
- 1989 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada
- 1990 Japan Prize
- 1990 Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 1991 Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London
- 1992 Doctor Honoris Causa, ETH Zurich
- 1994 Visiting Total Professor, Oxford University, UK
- 1995 Foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 1995 Visiting Professor, Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo University
- 1995 Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
- 2002 Balzan Prize for Geology
