André Cailleux

André Cailleux
Born (1907-12-24)24 December 1907
Paris, France
Died 27 December 1986(1986-12-27) (aged 79)
Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, France
Nationality French
Awards Albrecht-Penck-Medaille (1972)
Scientific career
Fields Climatic geomorphology
Geology
Paleontology

André de Cayeux de Senarpont (known as André Cailleux, 24 December 1907 – 27 December 1986) was a French paleontologist and geologist.[1]

Career

He was born in Paris, France. After earning his Ph.D. in 1942, he became a specialist in glacial and periglacial morphology. He worked as a professor of geology at the Sorbonne in Paris.[1]

Cailleux was a Christian and proponent of theistic evolution.[2]

He died at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.

Bibliography

  • Détermination pratique des roches, (with A. Chavan) Centre Documentation Universitaire, 1952, 2 volumes.
  • Les Roches, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1952.
  • La Glace et les glaciers, (with V. Romanovsky) Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. 1953.
  • Cryopédologie, Paris: Hermann, 1954
  • Détermination pratique des minéraux, (with A. Chavan) Paris: Sedes, 1957.
  • Détermination pratique des fossiles, (with A. Chavan) Paris: Masson, 1957.
  • La Géologie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1956.
  • Biogéographie mondiale, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1953.
  • Histoire de la Géologie, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1968
  • L'Anatomie de la Terre, Paris: Hachette, 1968.
  • L'Antarctique, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1967.

He was also the author of many papers.

English translations

  • Anatomy of the Earth, New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968. Translated by J. Moody Stuart. ISBN 0-07-016223-9.
  • Three Billion Years of Life, Stein and Day, New York, 1968. Translated by Joyce E Clemow. ISBN 0-8128-1349-9.

Awards and honors

  • The André Cailleux medal is awarded by the Association Québécoise pour l'étude du Quaternaire.
  • The crater Cailleux on the Moon is named after him.

References

  1. 1 2 Verger, Fernand. (1987). André Cailleux (1907-1986). Annales de Géographie 96 (537): 601-604.
  2. ↑ "Three Billion Years of Life". Kirkus Reviews.
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