CNRS 2002 Gold Medal Awards

This year, the CNRS gold medal award went to Claude Lorius, CNRS’s director emeritus of research at the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement, and Institute Member, and to Jean Jouzel, research director at the CEA and the Director of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, for their work on the study of the frozen ice-core archives taken from the polar ice sheets, notably in Antarctica. The researchers were the first to reveal a link between greenhouse gas concentrations and changes in the Earth’s climate through an analysis of the small air bubbles trapped inside the ice. Their work contributed to raising awareness of the potential impact of human activity on the future evolution of the planet’s climate.

CNRS 2002 Gold Medal Awards
		This year, the CNRS gold medal award went to Claude Lorius, CNRS’s director emeritus of research at the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement, and Institute Member, and to Jean Jouzel, research director at the CEA and the Director of the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, for their work on the study of the frozen ice-core archives taken from the polar ice sheets, notably in Antarctica. The researchers were the first to reveal a link between greenhouse gas concentrations and changes in the Earth’s climate through an analysis of the small air bubbles trapped inside the ice. Their work contributed to raising awareness of the potential impact of human activity on the future evolution of the planet’s climate.

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