Georges Pédro#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 518 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Georges Pédro passed away January 30, 2019.
Positions Held
- 1984 - 1992 President of the Hydrology-Pedology Commission of ORSTOM (Institut français de
- 1985 - 1990 National head of the DEA in pedology at the University of Paris VI
- 1982 - 1986 President of the French Association for the Study of Soils
- 1974 Research Director at INRA, Department of Soil Science
- 1972 - 1975 Chairman of the French Clay Group
- 1965 Senior researcher at INRA - Center of Versailles
- 1064 Doctor of Science
Fields of Scholarship
- Meteoric weathering of rocks
- Exogenous constituents of the lithosphere
- Experimental pedology
- Biogeochemistry
Honours and Awards
- 1986 Member of the French Academy of Agriculture
- 1989 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1980 CNRS Silver Medal
- 1993 President of the French Academy of Agriculture
- Secretary of the French Academy of Agriculture (1998 - 2004), honorary secretary since 2005
- 1998 Member of the Scientific Council of OPECST
- 1998 Member of the Academy of Georgofili (Florence)
- 2000 Member of the Academy of Technologies
- Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Officer of the National Order of Merit