As of November 17th 2021, Hans Peter (Hamper) Luterbacher passed away. He was born in 1938 in Basel, Switzerland, and had graduated in 1960 at the Geological-Paleontological Institute of the Basel University, under the tutoring of Prof. Manfred Reichel. In the early sixties, at Bottaccione (Gubbio), he established with Isabella Premoli Silva the first biostratigraphic […]
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Reasons for a name Born in 1811 (of Swiss origin) near Frankfurt, in Germany, Édouard Desor fled to Paris around 1832 and there started a geological career, coming under the influence of Élie del Beaumont. With Lous Agassiz, Desor had a key role in the study of glacial phenomena, but is also remembered for his stratigraphic […]