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Veronique Dehant

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Belgian geodesist and geophysicist

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Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geodesist and geophysicist. She specializes in modeling the deformation of the Earth's interior in response to the planet's rotation and the gravitational forces exerted upon it by the Sun and Moon.

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2016Commander of the Order of Leopold II
2016Charles A. Whitten Medal
2014honorary doctorate of Paris Observatory, PSL University
2003Vening Meinesz Medal

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Véronique Dehant is a Belgian geodesist and geophysicist. She specializes in modeling the deformation of the Earth's interior in response to the planet's rotation and the gravitational forces exerted upon it by the Sun and Moon. She has used similar techniques to study Mercury, Venus, Mars and the icy satellites of the outer planets. She primarily works at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, but also serves as an Extraordinary Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

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Born 1959 · age 67
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