Jacques Touret#
Photo: Mark W. Suits
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1578 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1994 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Jacques Touret passed away March 11, 2024.
Positions Held
- January 2001 Professor Emeritus
- 1980 - 2001 Full Professor of Petrology, Mineralogy, Ore Geology, Department of Petrology and Isotope Geology, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Free University Amsterdam
- 1994 - 1998 Professeur Associé à Statut Temporaire (PAST), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
- 1974 - 1980 Professeur sans chaire, Université de Paris 7, France
- 1974 Visiting Research Scientist, Department of Geosciences, Yale University, New Haven-Cn, USA
- 1969 - 1974 Maitre de Conférences, Professeur sans chaire, Université de Nancy I
- 1964 - 1969 Maitre Assistant, ENSG Nancy
- 1958 - 1964 Assistant, ENSG Nancy
Fields of Scholarship
- Petrology and Geochemistry
- Fluid and melt inclusions in minerals and rocks
- Metamorphic rocks
- Petrology
- History of Geology
Honours and Awards
- 1970 Prix Carrière, Académie des Sciences, Paris.
- 1988 Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences
- (KNAW), Afdeling Natuurkunde, Sectie Aardwetenschappen
- 1990 Chevalier, Ordre National du Mérite, France.
- 1992 Médaille André H. Dumont (Société Géologique de Belgique)
- 1995 Foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Norway
- 1996 Van Waterschoot van der Gracht Penning (The Netherlands)
- 2001 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Liège (Belgique)
