Paul Melchior#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1565 |
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| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
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Paul Melchior passed away September 15, 2004.
Positions Held
- Professor Emeritus at UCL
- Director of the International Tidal Center of the International Association of Geodesy
Fields of Scholarship
- Astronomy
Honours and Awards
- Geophysics Prize
- Lagrange Prize
- Stroobant price
- Ed. Mailly Prize of the Royal Academy of Belgium
- Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II
- Officer of the Order of the Crown
- Knight of the Order of Leopold
- First class citizen cross
- Commander of the Order of Merit
- Officer of the Order of the Crown of Oaks of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
- Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Honorary Professor at the Institute for Geodesy and Geophysics of the Academia Sinica in Wuhan (China)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Darmstadt
- Honorary Secretary General of the International Geodetic and Geophysical Union
- Fellow of the American Geophysical Union
- Staff of the Royal Astronomical Society of London
- Foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
- Foreign member of the Grand-Ducal Institute of Sciences of Luxembourg
- Foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Spain
- Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
- Foreign member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences
