Bill MinarikMSA mailing list relayed the news that Joe Smyth of the University of Colorado at Boulder has died.
From a remembrance by G. Diego Gatta & Fabrizio Nestola:
Joe was among the founders of the field of mineral physics. He predicted that the structure of wadsleyite would incorporate hydrogen through point defects in quantities sufficient to reach oceanic volumes of H₂O, with implications for the history of water and plate tectonics on Earth.
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