Paul Fourmarier

Paul Frederic Joseph Fourmarier (25 December 1877 – 20 January 1970) was a Belgian geologist and specialist in tectonics, after whom Fourmarierite is named.

Fourmarier was born in La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium and studied at the University of Liege, graduating in 1899. He became a professor of geology at the university in 1920. His specialist area was the study of fold structures and cleavage and he described the overthrust nappes in the Ardennes. He won the Wollaston Medal in 1957, and the Penrose Gold Medal in 1952.