Emmanuel de Margerie

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.

Emmanuel de Margerie
Born
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie

(1862-11-11)11 November 1862
Died20 December 1953(1953-12-20) (aged 91)
Known forMargerie Glacier
AwardsForMemRS[1]
Cullum Geographical Medal (1919)
Lyell Medal (1921)
Mary Clark Thompson Medal (1923)
Wollaston Medal (1946)

Early life and family

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]

Awards and honors

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.

References
  1. Fleure, H. J. (1955). "Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie. 1862-1953". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 1: 185–191. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1955.0014.
  2. Kessler, Marie Christine (2012). Presses de Sciences Po (in French). France: SciencesPo, Les Presses. ISBN 9782724689266.
  3. "Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. 2023-02-09. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  4. "Mary Clark Thompson Medal". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 29 December 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  5. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2023-06-29.


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