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A pioneer of glaciology, Claude Lorius, winner of the CNRS gold medal in 2002, died on 21 March. This exceptional researcher discovered that the record of Earth's past climate is locked up in the ice of Antarctica and highlighted the role of greenhouse gases in global warming. This is the portrait we devoted to him in 2015, for the release of a film dedicated to his life.
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