Emmanuel de Margerie

Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie was a French geographer and geologist born November 11, 1862, who died December 20, 1953, at age 91, the son of the Catholic writer Eugene de Margerie and a member of the Jacquin de Margerie family, a French noble lineage tracing to seventeenth century administrative service under Louis XIV. His long career centered on geological and geographical research, and he is known as the namesake of the Margerie Glacier in Alaska, which he visited in 1913. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1922 and the American Philosophical Society in 1932, received the Cullum Geographical Medal in 1919, the Lyell Medal in 1921, the Mary Clark Thompson Medal in 1923, and the Wollaston Medal in 1946.