This pioneering work paved the way for extracting quantitative thermal histories and the introduction of the technique as a routinely used tool within the hydrocarbon exploration industry, which lead to the creation of the first commercial fission-track analysis company. His work has impacted across an extraordinarily broad field including basin analysis, geomorphology, orogenic and extensional tectonics, human evolution and geochronology to name a few. Most recently his work in automation of fission-track data collection has led the way in pioneering new and powerful approaches in thermochronology. He has also been, and still is, tireless in promoting the power, robustness and applicability of the technique and ensuring that it was seen as a reliable analytical methodology, a task that took substantial energy in the 1970-80’s in particular. The many graduate students and postdoctoral researchers that he mentored are widely distributed around the world and most are still active and productive within the field of thermochronology. |