Micromounters’ Hall of Fame 2021: Jean-Luc Designolle and Anthony (Tony) R. Kampf

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Micromounters’ Hall of Fame 2021: Jean-Luc Designolle and Anthony (Tony) R. Kampf

Messaggio da Marco E. Ciriotti » ven 15 ott, 2021 12:03

The Baltimore Mineral Society convened the 65th Annual Paul Desautels Micromount Symposium via Zoom on Saturday, October 9th, 2021, at 1:00 pm EDT.
Quintin Wight, with assistance from Mike Seeds. presided over the induction of two new members into the Micromounters’ Hall of Fame.

Jean-Luc Designolle is an engineer. He graduated in 1989. After one year spent in Cameroon for his national service, he has worked at Colas (road building) for ten years as works supervisor, and since 2000 as design office manager. As a child, JeanLuc discovered minerals during holidays in the Alps with his parents. He got his first microscope in the early 80s’ and became member of the Association Française de Microminéralogie (AFM) in 1987. Ever since 1990, he is the Rhône-Alpes, Bourgogne, Franche Comté regional delegate. He organizes an annual meeting where regional members of the AFM share their best findings of the year, and where they decide the program for the field trips of the year to come (5 to 7 a year). Jean-Luc was elected president of the AFM at the annual meeting in Besse (in the Sancy Massif!) in 2007. Over the years, Jean-Luc has regularly authored papers in the Cahier des Micromonteurs (more than 40), promoted micromounting in mineral shows such as the annual event in Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines. He has designed and built carousels for ease of manipulation by inexperienced visitors. He also manages the AFM micromount collection housed in the Mineralogical Museum of the École des Mines de Paris.


Dr. Anthony (Tony) R. Kampf discovered mineralogy and crystallography as an undergraduate chemistry major at the University of Illinois in Chicago. He received his B.S. in chemistry (1970) and his M.S. in mineralogy and crystallography (1972) from that institution. He continued his studies at the University of Chicago under the mentorship of the inimitable Prof. Paul Brian Moore who introduced Tony to the thrill of discovering and characterizing new minerals, using both classical and modern techniques. After receiving his Ph.D. in mineralogy and crystallography in 1976, Tony joined the staff of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County at the beginning of 1977. He has spent his entire 44-year professional career at the museum, serving more than 34 years as Curator (including 31 as head of the Mineral Sciences Department) and the past 10 years as Curator Emeritus. Tony has more than 450 publications and has authored the descriptions of 300 minerals (more than
anyone else). Since 2008, he has served as the U.S. delegate to the International Mineralogical Association’s Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classifications.

Quintin then announced the candidates for induction in 2022: Dr. Robert Housley from California and Thomas Mortimer from Amherst, New Hampshire.
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