Kurt Kyser
Kurt Kyser | |
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| Born | T. Kurtis Kyser October 7, 1951 |
| Died | August 29, 2017 (aged 65) |
| Education | PhD |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Diego University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | creating Queen’s Facility for Isotope Research |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | geochemistry, mineralogy |
| Institutions | University of Saskatchewan Queen's University |
| Thesis | Stable and rare gas isotopes and the genesis of basic lavas and mantle xenoliths (1980) |
T. Kurtis (Kurt) Kyser (October 7, 1951, Montana, U.S. — August 29, 2017, Bermuda) was an American and Canadian geologist and geochemist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, professor of the University of Saskatchewan and Queen's University, founder and director of the Queen's Facility for Isotope Research (QFIR). Kyser served as a president of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (between 2006 and 2008) and as an Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis (GEEA).