Jean-Louis Le Mouël (29 July 1938 – 24 September 2025)

With great sadness we announce the passing of Jean-Louis LE MOUËL, a French geophysicist, Member of the Academy of Sciences (Universe Sciences section – 1988), Officer of the Legion of Honor, of the Order of Merit & of the Academic Palms Veteran (FNACA) & Honorary Citizen of the commune of Remungol and Physicist Emeritus at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), which he chaired from 1991 to 1996.

Professor Le Mouël was a friend of our Institute and an enthusiast of multidisciplinary Russian-French scientific collaboration. We have lost a good friend, colleague, co-author, wise mentor, and wonderful person, whose memory will forever remain in our hearts…

We mourn with Jean-Louis’s family and many friends.

Colleagues