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GeneralPaul Moore has passed

7th Mar 2019 21:37 UTCVandall Thomas King Manager

It is with great sadness that I report the death of my friend Paul B. Moore on March 2, 2019.

7th Mar 2019 23:44 UTCTom Rosemeyer

I'm sorry to hear of the passing of Paul B. Moore. I first met Paul when I was a sophomore in 1961 at Michigan College of Mining & Technology (now MTU) and we made several mineral collecting trips in the Keweenaw of Michigan.

8th Mar 2019 00:21 UTCŁukasz Kruszewski Expert

Extremely sad to hear about that............. /: I've read Paul Moore's a fantastic introduction to the famous Langban book - what a brilliant mind! The community has lost a true JEWEL man!

11th Jul 2019 08:46 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

An open-access obituary:

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/104/7/1062/571783/Memorial-of-Paul-Brian-Moore-19402019

https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2019-m690

11th Jul 2019 15:16 UTCJeff Weissman Expert

Uwe, thanks for posting. Back in the late 1990's I had the distinct pleasure of spending an afternoon with Prof. Moore, the obituary's statement of "It was impossible to be bored by him; he would explain both simple and complex ideas with the same irrepressible enthusiasm for their intellectual beauty." was absolutely true.

11th Jul 2019 16:02 UTCChester S. Lemanski, Jr.

I've had the pleasure of knowing Paul since 1984. The first presentation of his that I attended was his theory on the structure of cacoxenite crystals. Most attendees were lost but I really enjoyed it! Most folks don't realize that he was also an entomologist and discovered the fluorescence of butterfly wings outside of the visible spectrum and related it to the mating function. He would come along on some of the Franklin, NJ, society field trips and patiently identify minerals found by the collectors. He and a class of his students were the ones who discovered the sinhalite and warwickite occurrences at the Edison-Bodnar quarry during one of his field trips. Of course, he was an expert on the element boron. Sad to lose Paul indeed!