Edward Bruce Watson (born 16 October 1950) is an American geochemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Watson received in 1972 his bachelor's degree in geology from the University of New Hampshire and in 1976 his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in geochemistry.
He was a visiting researcher in 1980 at Macquarie University in Sydney and in 1984 at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz.
[1] Watson's research deals (mostly but not exclusively) with the geochemistry of the deep Earth inaccessible to drilling or other direct observation.
[2] His research has included the following topics: partitioning of trace elements between minerals, silicate melts and fluids;atomic and molecular diffusion in crystals, silicate melts and supercritical water;equilibrium and kinetic properties of low abundance minerals that sequester geochemically-important isotopes and trace elements;wetting behavior of melts (silicate, carbonate and metallic) and supercritical fluids in rocks;permeability of (and bulk diffusion in) polyphase materials consisting of crystals and fluid;and dissolution kinetics of minerals in silicate melts.