Biographie de Günter Faure
Gunter Faure received his B.Sc. degree in geology in 1957 from the University of Western Ontario and Ph.D. in 1961 from M.I.T. He became an Assistant Professor in 1962 at the Ohio State University and was promoted to Professor in 1968. He has been teaching popular graduate-level courses in isotope geology and aqueous geochemistry as well as a course in planetary science for undergraduates.
Gunter Faure's research has ranged widely from the origin of basalt to the geochemistry of streams contaminated by acidic mine drainage.
He is coauthor of a monograph and author of two successful textbooks. Gunter Faure is the founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Isotope Geoscience and the former Executive Editor of Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. In addition, he is the former President of the International Association of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry.