Francis Albarède#
Membership Number: | 2067 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 2000 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Homepage(s): | http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/francis.albarede |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2015 Emeritus Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
- 1991-2015 Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
- 1979-1991 Professor at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Geologie in Nancy, France
- 1977-1978 NSF Post-Doctoral Fellow, Caltech: Stable Isotopes in granitic and metamorphic rocks
- 1971-1977 Maître de Conférences Université de Paris 7
Fields of Scholarship
- Trace elements, radiogenic isotope geochemistry and geochronology
- Principles of geochemistry
- Deep Earth geochemistry
- Origin of continents
- Planetary geochemistry
- Nuclear geochemistry
- Early Earth
- Origin of Life
- Stable metal isotopes in biology and medicine
- Stable metal isotopes in historical and archeological artifacts
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Silver Medal CNRS
- 2000 Member of the Academia Europae
- 2000 Norman Bowen Award of the American Geophysical Union
- 2001 Arthur Holmes Medal of the European Union of Geosciences
- 2002 Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- 2002 Highly Cited Researcher certificate, Institute of Scientific Information
- 2003 Nature Lifeline
- 2006 Chevalier des Palmes Académiques
- 2008 VM Goldschmidt Award of the Geochemical Society
- 2008 Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur
- 2010 McDonnell Distinguished Fellow of the Washington University, Saint-Louis