Anthony Williams-Jones

Anthony E. (Willy) Williams-Jones received his early education in South Africa, completing his BSc in 1967 at the University of Natal, and his MSc two years later at the same university. In 1969, he and his wife, Colleen, left South Africa, and Willy enrolled in a PhD program in metamorphic petrology at McGill University under the supervision of Dugald Carmichael. A year later, he moved with Dugald to Queen's University and, en route to completing his PhD in 1973, learned from him the power of thermochemical analysis and the importance of the caveat, ?the field is the final arbiter.? After a four-year career in mineral exploration, which took him to southern Africa and Brazil, Willy obtained an academic position in economic geology at McGill University, where he takes great pleasure in teaching at all levels and in using geochemistry to address scientific questions related mainly, but by no means exclusively, to the genesis of hydrothermal mineral deposits. He is a former chair of his department, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and is currently an associate editor for Geofluids and Economic Geology.