序（石油地球化学和地质学第二版本）关于约翰·亨特的非凡经历已有许多评价了。总的来说，他是世界石油地球化学的祖父和同行们的前辈。因为在五、六十年代开创性的工作便使他赢得了这样的桂冠，在一个尚未有气相色谱和质谱技术的时代便首次成功地进行了油源对比研究（亨... Preface (Second Edition, Petrogeochemistry and Geology) Much has been said about the extraordinary experience of John Hunt. In general, he is the predecessor of the grandfather and his colleagues in the world’s petroleum geochemistry. Since pioneering work in the 1950s and 1960s won him such a crown, for the first time in a time when gas chromatography and mass spectrometry were not yet available, a successful oil source contrast study was conducted.