Presentation of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2016 to Patrick Cordier
Résumé
It is with great pleasure and with enthusiasm, I propose Patrick Cordier for MSA Dana medal. The former President and Vice-President of the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie and co-author of the book for the general public on mineralogy Ce que disent les minéraux (“What do the minerals say”), he is one of the few people that capture the essence of modern mineralogical research allied to concepts coming from materials science and physics. A physicist by training and now professor of physics at the University of Lille, he embarked on the route to become one of the world’s leading mineralogists by studying the plastic deformation of quartz and his Ph.D. in 1989.