Jean-Marie Robine
French demographer, gerontologist and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean-Marie Robine (born 1951[1]) is a French social scientist, who works in the field of demography and gerontology, and is an author and journalist,[2][3] who is best known as being the co-validator of the longevity of Jeanne Calment, the oldest verified supercentenarian of all time, with whom he collaborated.
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Robine has been instrumental in organizing international efforts to study supercentenarians, through workshops held at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research and by founding the International Database on Longevity.[citation needed] Robine currently has the largest European supercentenarian dataset,[citation needed] and also collaborates with Japanese demographer Yasuhiko Saito.