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Pierre Choukroune was born in Casablanca on 28 March 1943. He celebrated his 60th birthday a few weeks before the DRT2003 meeting in St Malo. Pierre received a PhD from Paris University in 1967 and a ‘Doctorat d’Etat’ from Montpellier University in 1974. The subject of both theses was the structural geology of the Pyrenees. The second thesis was published as Mémoire 127 of the Société Géologique de France. Pierre started his professional career in 1967 as ‘Assistant’ (Assistant Lecturer) at Montpellier University. In 1975, he moved to Rennes as Professor. He stayed at Rennes until 1995, when he moved to the University of Aix-Marseille.
Building on his early fieldwork in the Pyrenees, Pierre rapidly acquired a prominent and highly personal scientific profile. His interests have always spanned various scales, from detailed analysis of microstructures, through regional patterns of strain and displacement (e.g. Choukroune 1976) to plate tectonics (Choukroune 1992). Of the more than 100 papers that he has published in international journals over the last three decades, many have had major impacts on structural geology and tectonics.
One of his first papers (Choukroune 1971) was on the analysis of pressure shadows around pyrite crystals, as a tool to understand the development of slaty cleavage. As pointed out by Ramsay and Hubert (1983) in their textbook, ‘This is an outstanding paper from the view point of descriptive excellence, the quality of the diagrams and photographs and the theoretical analysis of data’. This paper contains many of the ideas that Pierre
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