Louis Legendre (; born 16 February 1945) is a Canadian-trained oceanographer whose later career took him to France.
Education Legendre degreed in liberal arts (B.A.) and sciences (B.Sc., Zoology) at the University of Montreal in 1964 and 1967, respectively. He degreed in oceanography (Ph.D.) at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) in 1971.
Academic career Legendre joined the faculty at Laval University in 1973, rising to full professor in 1981. In 2000, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and was director of the Villefranche Oceanography Laboratory. In 2009, he took a position at the Pierre and Marie Curie University (as of 2018, Sorbonne University). He is a professor emeritus at Laval University and at Sorbonne University.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Knight of the Order of Saint-Charles.
Select awards and honours 1985 – Prix Léo-Pariseau, ACFAS 1986 – Michel-Jurdant Prize (with Pierre Legendre), ACFAS 1988 – Fellow, Royal Society of Canada 1997 – Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec 1997 – Honorary Doctorate, University of Liège, Belgium 2001 – ECI Prize 2002 – Fellow, International Ecology Institute 2002 – G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography 2011 – Knight, Order of Saint-Charles, Principality of Monaco 2016 – Elected Fellow, European Academy of Sciences 2017 – Sustaining Fellow, Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Selected publications Numerical Ecology (2012)
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