Paul Frédéric Joseph Fourmarier (1877—1970) was a Belgian geologist and specialist in tectonics and stratigraphy,[1] after whom the Fourmarierite mineral is named.
[2] Fourmarier was born in La Hulpe, Province of Brabant, Belgium and studied at the University of Liège, graduating in 1899.
[4] His specialist area was the study of fold structures and cleavage and he described the overthrust nappes in the Ardennes.
[1] Fourmarier was much involved in the geology of his native Belgium, as well as Zaire (then the Belgian Congo) and other African places.
[5] In addition, a secondary uranium-lead mineral, fourmarierite, was named in his memory.