Marie-Henriette Ailmen was a French paleontologist and geologist.
Education
Alimen studied at Ecole Normale Supérieure, earning a degree in Natural Sciences, and earned her doctorate in 1936 (one of the first women to submit a submit a thesis for a Doctor of Philosophy in the field of prehistory), her thesis was titled Étude sur le Stampien du Bassin de Paris (A Study of Sampien from the Paris Basin). Her thesis wone the 1940 Prix Visquenel (Visquenel Prize) from the Société géologique de France (Geological Society of France).
Career
Alimen"s career was mainly focused on Quaternary geology in France and Africa while working for Centre national de la recherche scientifique (French National Centre for Scientific Research, or National Center for Scientific Research). 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 National Center for Scientific Research 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 (Prehistorical Society of France) in 1946 and again in 1960.
Alimen published two books through Maison d"édition Boubée, including Atlas de Préhistoire (1950), and Louisiana Préhistoire de l"Afrique (1955).