JACQUES TOURET (1936-2o24)

Jacques Touret passed away on 11 March 2024 in Paris at the age of 88 after a long illness. Jacques was a pioneer in the field of fluid inclusions and its applications in high-grade metamorphic rocks. In his retrospective paper in Geoscience Frontiers (Touret, 2014), Jacques described himself as someone who dedicated ”…a great part of my scientific life to the study of minute bubbles in rocks issued from the most extreme depths of our mother Earth”. He will be remembered as a very amiable person and his infectious enthusiasm for fluid inclusions.

Early Life and Education

Jacques Léon Robert Touret was born on January 2, 1936, in Fumay (Ardennes, France). He studied at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie (ENSG) in Nancy and the University of Nancy and obtained a MSc degree in engineering geology in 1958. 

Academic and Professional Career

Later Years and Contributions

Awards and Recognitions

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. 

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