Barringer Medalist of Meteoritical Society Passes Away

Christian Koeberl of the University of Vienna & Natural History Museum has written the Memorial feature for the Meteoritical Society publication Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55 (Nr4, 988-990, 2020)

Memorial, Bruce F. Bohor, the 2011 Barringer Medalist of the Meteoritical Society, passed away at this home in Gree Valley AZ on November 17, 2019. Bruce is best known in our community for his discovery of shocked quartz in layers of marking the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T, now called the Cretaceous-Paleogene, K-Pg) boundary in the central United States in the early 1980s following the famous paper by Alvarez and co-authors in Science in 1980, in which they report geochemical evidence for an asterioid impact from K-Pg boundary in Italy.