{{Short description|Canadian ecologist (1911–2011)}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Pierre Dansereau |honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|GOQ|FRSC|size=100%}} |image = Pierre Dansereau.jpg |caption = Dansereau, circa 1942–43 |birth_date = {{Birth date|1911|10|5}} |birth_place = [[Outremont, Quebec]], Canada |death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|09|28|1911|10|5}} |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = |ethnicity = |field = |work_institutions = [[Jardin botanique de Montréal|Montreal Botanical Garden]]<br/> [[University of Michigan]]<br/>[[Université du Québec à Montréal]] |alma_mater = [[University of Geneva]] |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[ecology]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Pierre Dansereau''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|GOQ|FRSC}} (October 5, 1911 – September 28, 2011)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salledepresse.uqam.ca/communiques-de-presse-2011/1727-deces-de-pierre-dansereau.html |title=Décès de Pierre Dansereau : L'UQAM perd un grand pionnier de l'écologie moderne |publisher=Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) |date=September 29, 2011 |accessdate=October 2, 2011 |archive-date=June 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617070051/http://salledepresse.uqam.ca/communiques-de-presse-2011/1727-deces-de-pierre-dansereau.html |url-status=dead }} (French)</ref> was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[ecologist]] from [[Quebec]] known as one of the "fathers of ecology".
==Biography== Born in [[Outremont, Quebec]] (now part of [[Montreal]]), he received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.A.) in 1936 and a Ph.D. in Biological Science in 1939 from the [[University of Geneva]]. From 1939 until 1942 he worked at the [[Jardin botanique de Montréal|Montreal Botanical Garden]]. From 1943 until 1950 he taught at the [[Université de Montréal]]. From 1950 until 1955 he worked at the [[University of Michigan]] Botanical Gardens. From 1955 until 1961 he worked in the Faculty of Science and as the director of the Botanical Institute at the Université de Montréal. In 1961 he returned to the [[United States]] as the assistant director of the [[New York Botanical Garden]] and as a professor of botany and geography at the [[Columbia University]]. From 1972 until 1976 he was the Director of the Research Centre for Sciences and the Environment at the [[Université du Québec à Montréal]] (UQAM). In 1988 he was made a Professor Emeritus at UQAM, but he still worked there after mandatory retirement (in 1976, at 65 years old) to year 2004, aged 93.
He was the subject of a 2001 documentary ''An Ecology of Hope'' by his cousin, Quebec filmmaker [[Fernand Dansereau]].<ref name="NFB">{{cite web|url=http://www.nfb.ca/film/An_Ecology_of_Hope|title=An Ecology of Hope|last=Dansereau|first=Fernand|year=2001|work=NFB.ca |publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=October 2, 2011}}</ref>
On September 28, 2011, Pierre Dansereau died, one week before his 100th birthday, after 76 years of marriage, and three months after his wife (a painter) became a centenarian — they had no children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://necrologie.cyberpresse.ca/resultatrecherche.php?nodef=2710570 |title=Dansereau, Pierre (obituary notice) |publisher=La Presse (Montréal) |date=October 1, 2011 |accessdate=October 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111205113432/http://necrologie.cyberpresse.ca/resultatrecherche.php?nodef=2710570 |archivedate=December 5, 2011 }} (French)</ref>
UQAM's Complexe des sciences Pierre-Dansereau was named for him.
==Honours== In 1987 the Canadian Botanical Association awarded him the George Lawson Medal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal|website=Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada|url=https://www.cba-abc.ca/awards/the-lawson-medal/past-recipients-of-the-lawson-medal}}</ref> * 1949 - Made a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]] (MSRC) * 1959 - Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the [[University of Saskatchewan]] * 1965 - Awarded the [[Léo-Pariseau Prize]] * 1969 - Made a Companion of the [[Order of Canada]]<ref>{{Canadian honour|Type=orc |ID=387 }}</ref> * 1971 - Awarded honorary doctorate from [[Sir George Williams University]], which later became [[Concordia University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://archives.concordia.ca/dansereau|title = Honorary Degree Citation - Pierre Dansereau* {{!}} Concordia University Archives|website = archives.concordia.ca|access-date = 2016-04-04}}</ref> * 1972 - Delivered the [[Massey Lecture]] * 1973 - Awarded the [[Royal Canadian Geographical Society|Royal Canadian Geographical Society's]] [[Massey Medal]] * 1974 - Won the [[Molson Prize]] * 1983 - Awarded the [[Université de Sherbrooke]]'s prix Esdras-Minville * 1983 - Won the Government of Quebec's [[Prix Marie-Victorin]] * 1985 - Made a Knight of the [[National Order of Quebec]]; promoted to Grand Officer in 1992<ref>{{cite web | title=Pierre Dansereau | work=Gouvernement du Québec | url=http://www.ordre-national.gouv.qc.ca/membres/membre.asp?id=25 | year=1992 |accessdate=October 2, 2011}} (French)</ref> * 1985 - Awarded the [[Canada Council for the Arts]]' [[Killam Prize]] * 1986 - Awarded the Canadian Botanical Association's George Lawson Medal<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal|website=Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada|url=https://www.cba-abc.ca/awards/the-lawson-medal/past-recipients-of-the-lawson-medal}}</ref> * 1995 - Awarded the Royal Society of Canada's [[Sir John William Dawson Medal]] * 2001 - Inducted into the [[Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame]]<ref name="CSTM2001">[http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/newsrel/inductees01.cfm Pierre Dansereau, Charles Scriver Inducted Into The Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017013034/http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/newsrel/inductees01.cfm |date=2013-10-17 }}, News Release, Canada Science and Technology Museum, November 8, 2001.</ref> * 2012 - Fellow of the [[Ecological Society of America]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=ESA Fellows |url=https://esa.org/about/awards/fellows-program/esa-fellows/ |access-date=2025-08-16 |website=Ecological Society of America}}</ref>
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==External links== {{commons category}} * [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-dansereau Pierre Dansereau] at [[The Canadian Encyclopedia]] * [http://www.radio-canada.ca/emissions/les_annees_lumiere/2011-2012/chronique.asp?idChronique=177089 Audio interview with Pierre Dansereau] on [[:fr:Les Années lumière (radio)|Les années lumière]] * [http://m.theglobeandmail.com/deaths/scientist-focused-on-the-collaboration-between-plants-and-humans/article2226678/?service=mobile 'Barefoot ecologist' got up close to nature] Toronto Globe and Mail obituary
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