Henry Faul (1920–1981) was an American geologist whose research touched on impact craters, tektites, and geological structures, leaving scholarly work on meteorite impacts and surface geological processes. He is best known for his book Nuclear Clocks, which discusses radiometric dating methods and their application to measuring geological time, addressing readers who wish to understand the principles of nuclear clocks and advances in geochronology. Because publicly available information is limited, the full details of his life, education, and career cannot be given here. Overall, Faul's work reflects the mid-twentieth-century convergence of geology and nuclear physics methods and offers useful reference value for understanding the origins of impact craters and problems of geological dating.
