- Henri Termier
Professor Henri-François-Émile Termier (
December 13 ,1897 ,Lyon -August 12 ,1989 ) was a Frenchgeologist . Coming from a scholarly family, he served in theFirst World War as anartillery officer during which he earned aCroix de guerre . After working as an assistant at the university inMontpellier (1923 - 1925), he became a geologist working for the Service géologique du Maroc (Morocco Mine Service), where he worked until 1940, becoming very famous for his studies ofstratigraphy and fossil fauna (he found the first specimens of "Titanichthys agassizi "). Later he taught at the university ofAlgeria (1945) and ten years later he became a chairmain at theSorbonne . He was married to professorGeneviève Termier , another famous Frenchpaleontologist .Selected bibliography
* "Paleontologie marocaine", 5 volumes, with Geneviève Termier
* "Etudes geologiques sur le Maroc central et le Moyen Atlas septentrional"
* "Traite de geologie"
* "Traite de stratigraphie"
* "Biologie des premiers fossiles"
* "Les Animaux prehistoriques"
* "Histoire de la Terre"External links
* [http://sgfr.free.fr/association/LS/notice-Termier.php Henri Termier wife's obituary with info and photo of them both]
* [http://www.whoswho.fr/ Who's Who in France]
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