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Peter Winterburn (died June 21, 2019) was a Canadian academic.

He was the NSERC/AcmeLabs/Bureau Veritas Minerals Industrial Research Chair in Exploration Geochemistry at the University of British Columbia and had recently moved to Chile.

He held a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and a BSc from University of Aston, Birmingham, England. [1]

Winterburn was murdered in Valparaiso, Chile in 2019. [2] [1] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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