Marie-Lise Lory had planned to study at the Beaux-Arts but is studied natural sciencesː she took a bachelor's degree in mathematics, then studied physics (quantum optics). On the advice of Alfred Kastler and Jean Brossel[2] she entered a laboratory created at the École normale supérieure, the Aeronomy Department. She gets married and has a son.
She obtained her licence de sciences in 1957, and her doctorate ès sciences in 1965. In 1959, she had joined the CNRS as a research trainee, where she spent her entire professional career until her academic retirement in 2000, having become research director in 1986.
She was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences on 26 March 1990, in the Sciences of the Universe section.[3] Throughout her career, she assumed many responsibilities[3] member of the High Council of Meteorology, member of the Environment Committee of the French Academy of sciences (since 2005), French representative to the ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions), member of the Scientific Council of the Centre for Unconventional Hydrocarbons, President of the French National Committee of Geodesy and Geophysics (1986–1990), among others.
Grand Officier of the Légion d'honneur. She was made a Chevalier on 26 September 1996, and was promoted to Officier on 31 December 2005,[4]Commandeur on 29 March 2013,[5] before being raised to the dignity of Grand Officier on 30 December 2017.[6]
Grand Officier of the Ordre National du Mérite. She received the distinction of Grand Officier on 30 December 2017.[7] She had been Commandeur since 28 November 2000.
Marie-Lise Chanin has devoted her research to the physics of the upper and middle atmosphere, which brought her to an interest in the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere and climate change.[8] She first studied the upper atmosphere: her thesis (directed by Jacques Blamont) was devoted to the measurement of the temperature of the upper atmosphere. She used the optical resonance of alkaline atoms emitted into the atmosphere by rockets and her measurements revealed the influence of solar activity and particle precipitation. She then developed methods for probing the atmosphere by laserorlidar, which allow temperature measurements over distances of 10 to 100 km. She highlighted the cooling of the stratosphere under the influence of greenhouse gases. It clarified the role of the stratosphere on the climate and the influence of the air fleet on the environment.
Chanin, Marie-Lise; Brasseur, Guy (2007). "Interation entre la chimie atmosphérique et le climat". In Fellous, Jean-Louis; Gautier, Catherine (eds.). Ensemble face aux changements climatiques (in French). Odille Jacob.
Marie-Lise Chanin (December 1997). Impact de la flotte aérienne sur l'environnement et le climat. Rapport commun Académie des Sciences & Académie Nationale de l'Air & de l'Espace (in French). Vol. 40.
André, Jean-Claude; Boucher, Olivier; Bousquet, Philippe; Chanin, Marie-Lise; Chappellaz, Jérôme; Tardieu, Bernard (2014). Le méthane: D'où vient-il et quel son impact sur le climat? (in French). EDP Sciences. ISBN978-2-7598-1014-7.
Chanin, Marie-Lise; Clerbaux, Cathy; Godin-Beekmann, Sophie (2015). L'évolution de l'ozone atmosphérique, le point en 2015 (in French). Tec & Doc Lavoisier. ISBN978-2-7430-2107-8.
^Marie-Lise Chanin (L'humanité indique en préambule "L'Humanité Dimanche, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec l'Académie des sciences, publie une nouvelle tribune donnant le point de vue d'un de ses membres sur de grandes thématiques scientifiques touchant à des enjeux de société."), « L'ozone, selon qu'il est stratosphérique ou troposphérique... », L'humanité dimanche, 29 février 2016 (lire en ligne)
