!!!Xavier Le Pichon
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Xavier Le Pichon passed away March 22, 2025.
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__Positions Held__
*1986 Professor at the Collège de France
*1984 Head of the geology department at the École Normale Supérieure
*1978 Professor at Université P. et M. Curie (University of Paris VI)
*1969 Head of the marine geology department of the oceanologic center of Brittany in Brest, France
*1963 Scientific assistant at Columbia University, New York, United States
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
*1973 CNRS Silver Medal
*1984 Maurice Ewing Medal from the American Geophysical Union
*1985 William Smith lecture, Geological Society London
*1985 member of the French Academy of Sciences
*1985 Knight of the Legion of Honour
*1987 Prix A.G. Huntsman de l'Institut Océanographique at Bedford, Canada
*1987 Prince Albert of Monaco "Médaille de l'Océanographie"
*1989 Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Dalhousie, Halifax, Canada
*1990 Japan Prize
*1990 Officer of the National Order of Merit
*1991 Wollaston Medal, Geological Society of London
*1992 Doctor Honoris Causa, ETH Zurich
*1994 Visiting Total Professor, Oxford University, UK
*1995 Foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
*1995 Visiting Professor, Ocean Research Institute, Tokyo University
*1995 Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
*[2002 Balzan Prize for Geology|http://www.balzan.org/en/prizewinners/xavier-le-pichon]
*2019 Leopold von Buch Badge by the German Society for Earth Sciences (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften)

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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Le_Pichon_Xavier/CV]
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[Publication list|User/Le_Pichon_Xavier/Publications]
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[Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Le_Pichon_Xavier/Highlight]
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