Emmanuel de Margerie | |
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Born | Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie 11 November 1862 |
Died | 20 December 1953 | (aged 91)
Known for | Margerie Glacier |
Awards |
ForMemRS
[1] Cullum Geographical Medal (1919) Lyell Medal (1921) Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1923) Wollaston Medal (1946) |
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS [1] (11 November 1862 – 20 December 1953) was a French geographer after whom the Margerie Glacier was named, which he visited in 1913.
He is the son of French catholic writer Eugène de Margerie , and a member of the Jacquin de Margerie Family , a French family of nobility dating back to 17th-century royal administrators of Picardy under rule of Louis XIV. [2]
Margerie was awarded the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1919. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1922. [3] In 1923 de Margerie was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences. [4] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932. [5]
The Margerie Glacier is named in his honour.