Category:Maurice Gignoux

**Maurice Gignoux**
	French geologist (1881-1955)
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Name in native language	Maurice Gignoux;
Date of birth	19 October 1881; 1st arrondissement of Lyon; Marie Irénée Maurice Gignoux
Date of death	20 August 1955; Grenoble
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	disease;
Country of citizenship	France;
Educated at	École Normale Supérieure (1901–1905); agrégation de sciences naturelles (1905–); University of Lyon (1913, doctorate in France, geology); Collège-lycée Ampère;
Doctoral advisor	Charles Depéret;
Doctoral student	Jacques Debelmas; Léon Moret; Franck Bourdier;
Occupation	geologist; military personnel (1914–1917);
Member of	French Academy of Sciences (1932–1946); French Academy of Sciences (1946–1955); Geological Society of London (foreign member); Société géologique de Belgique; Swiss Academy of Sciences; Académie delphinale; Société géologique de France; Geological Society of America;
Position held	university teacher (Louis Pasteur University, 1919–); university teacher (University of Grenoble, 1926–); adjunct professor (Faculté des sciences de Toulouse, 1909–); dean (University of Grenoble, 1940–1944); vice president (Société géologique de France);
Award received	Penrose Medal (1955); Knight of the Legion of Honour (1925); Officer of the Legion of Honour (1948); officier de l’Instruction publique (1919); Honorary doctor of the University of Lausanne; Prix François-Fontannes (1915);
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	Q1911322; ISNI: 0000000108677516; VIAF ID: 7749917; GND ID: 116621141; Library of Congress authority ID: n86872157; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 15323981t, 12327751w; IdRef ID: 032200943; Léonore ID: 19800035/105/13256; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 121147878; NUKAT ID: n97066986; PLWABN ID: 9810591247905606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007271556805171; SBN author ID: SBLV072145
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