Henriette Alimen


Marie-Henriette Alimen was a French paleontologist and geologist. Alimen studied at École Normale Supérieure, later going on to teach at Musée de l'Homme, and serve as president of Société géologique de France. Alimen's career was mainly focused on Quaternary geology in France and Africa while working for Centre national de la recherche scientifique. She later became a Knight of both the Legion of Honour and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.

Education

Alimen studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure, earning a degree in Natural Sciences, and earned her doctorate in 1936, her thesis was titled Étude sur le Stampien du Bassin de Paris. Her thesis wone the 1940 Prix Visquenel from the Société géologique de France.

Career

Alimen later went on to teach Quaternary Geology at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris from 1946 to 1956. In 1948 Ailmen went to work for Centre national de la recherche scientifique, studying the Quaternary geology of the Pyrenees and the Sahara. She later managed the Laboritoire du Géologie Quaterniare for CNRS in Paris, which continued to study Quaternary geology in the two regions. Following her retirement from Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Alimen became President of the Société Géologique de France. Alimen also served as President of the Société Préhistorique Française in 1946 and again in 1960. Alimen published two books through Maison d'édition Boubée, including Atlas de Préhistoire, and La Préhistoire de l'Afrique. For her contributions she was named a Knight of the Legion of Honour and named a Knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.