Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck

Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck (, rhyming with "hook" ) is a Brazilian geologist and professor at the University of Brasília. Fuck specializes on geochronology and petrology, having written extensively on Pre-Cambrian geology.


 * 1969: He graduated from the Escola de Geologia de Porto Alegre (UFRGS) in Brazil.
 * 1973: He got his doctorate in the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
 * 1975: He carried out postdoctoral research in geology and petrology in the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Durham in England.

His research lines are geochronology, petrology and lithogeochemistry, high-grade metamorphism, greenstone belts, Proterozoic double belts.

He has been an author of a large number of Precambrian-geology-related scientific papers.

In 2010, he was awarded the Brazilian honour called the National Order of Scientific Merit.