Veerabhadran Ramanathan winner of the 2025 Grand Medal of the French Academy of Sciences
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The Grande médaille is a distinction awarded each year, on an alternating basis, in the disciplines covered by each of the Academy's divisions, to a French or foreign scientist who has made a decisive contribution to the development of science, both through the originality of his or her personal research and through its international influence, and the stimulating influence he or she will have had in creating a veritable school of research.
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Grande Médaille award ceremony
On September 9, the Académie des Sciences awarded its highest distinction: the Grande Médaille.
This year, it honors a visionary figure, a precursor committed to the climate: Veerabhadran Ramanathan.
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His background and values
Professor emeritus at the University of California (San Diego), he is one of those visionary scientists who, as early as the 1970s, perceived the stakes for humanity of human action on the Earth's climate. So, in addition to his remarkable research work, which has just been recalled, he has committed all his energies to raising awareness of the risks involved, as well as the major inequalities engendered for the 3 billion or so human beings making up the poorest populations.
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His commitment to the climate
The conviction of the need for a commitment from the whole of society, singularly in the education of youth, has marked his action. First in California, then in a United States now marked by political climate skepticism, he tirelessly set researchers and educators in motion, creating the Bending the Curve program.
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The ceremony was open to the scientific public and followed by talks by Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Sandrine Bony and Nicolas Bellouin on the major climate issues of our time.
