Birth Name: | Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie |
Birth Date: | 11 November 1862 |
Known For: | Margerie Glacier |
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.
He is the son of French catholic writer, and a member of the, a French family of nobility dating back to 17th-century royal administrators of Picardy under rule of Louis XIV.[2]
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.