JACQUES TOURET (1936-2o24)

• Early Career: From 1959 onwards, he was a lecturer at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie and started his PhD on the geology, petrology, and geochemistry of the Bamble area in southern Norway, with Prof. Marcel Roubault (director of the ENSG) as his formal supervisor and Prof. Tom F.W. Barth (Mineralogical-Geological Museum in Oslo) as his actual supervisor. Jacques proposed in 1971 that the formation of granulites in southern Norway was related to the influx of CO2-rich fluids. It was during his PhD research that Bernard Poty, Alan Weisbrod, and Jacques made Nancy a world-renowned place for geological fluid research.

• Academic Appointments: Jacques was appointed as an associate professor in structural geology at the Université de Nancy after he completed his PhD in 1969, followed by an appointment as a professor in petrology at the Université Paris 7 in 1972. In 1980, he became professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where he established an international centre of expertise for fluid inclusion studies.

He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1988), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (since 1995), and Academia Europaea (since 1994). 

He received numerous awards and prizes, including an honorary doctorate at the University of Liège (Belgium) in 2001, the André Dumont and the Van Waterschoot Van der Gracht medals by the Belgium and Dutch geological societies in 1992 and 1996, respectively, and the François Ellenberger prize, together with his wife Lydie, by the French Committee on the History of Geology in 2023.

From Frezzotti et al. (2024), Geoscience Frontiers, 15/4, 101845.