| Paul Fourmarier | |
| Birth Date: | 25 December 1877 |
| Birth Place: | La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium |
| Death Place: | Liège, Liège Province, Belgium |
| Fields: | Geology, tectonics |
| Alma Mater: | University of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium |
| Known For: | study of fold structures and cleavage, description the overthrust nappes |
| Awards: | Penrose Gold Medal (1952), Wollaston Medal (1957) |
Paul Frédéric Joseph Fourmarier (1877—1970) was a Belgian geologist and specialist in tectonics and stratigraphy,[1] after whom the Fourmarierite mineral is named.[2]
Fourmarier was born in La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium and studied at the University of Liège, graduating in 1899. He became a professor of geology at the university in 1920.[1]
He won the Wollaston Medal in 1957[3] and the Penrose Gold Medal in 1952.[4]
His specialist area was the study of fold structures and cleavage and he described the overthrust nappes in the Ardennes.[1] Fourmarier was much involved in the geology of his native Belgium, as well as Zaire (then the Belgian Congo) and other African places. He also worked on continental drift.[1]
An award named after him, the Fourmarier Prize, was established.[5] In addition, a secondary uranium-lead mineral, fourmarierite, was named in his memory.