George W. Fisher, professor emeritus in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, died Nov. 27. For most of his career, Fisher studied the geology of the Appalachian Piedmont and the kinetics of metamorphic processes, producing a definitive summary of southern and central Appalachian geology. Anand Gnanadesikan Chair, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences "George was a scientist of great depth, and in all my interactions with him I was struck by both his wisdom and kindness." A Connecticut native, Fisher dug dinosaur bones as a teenage assistant on a paleontological project in the western U.S. He earned a bachelor's degree at Dartmouth College in 1959 and a PhD at Hopkins in 1963, both in geology.
