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Professor Alexandra Navrotsky

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Alexandra Navrotsky

PhD, University of Chicago, 1967

Director, NEAT ORU,
Edward Roessler Chair in
Mathematical and Physical Sciences;
Distinguished Professor,
Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic,
Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry;
at the University of California at Davis

NEAT ORU & Thermochemistry Facility
Chemistry Annex
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616-8779
530-752-3292

anavrotsky@ucdavis.edu


Honors

  • Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1973)
  • Mineralogical Society of America Award and Fellow (1981)
  • American Geophysical Union Fellow (1988)
  • Member, National Academy of Sciences (1993)
  • President, Mineralogical Society of America (1992-1993)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Uppsala, Sweden (1995)
  • Ross Coffin Purdy Award, American Ceramic Society Fellow (1995)
  • Geochemical Society Fellow (1997)
  • Alexander M. Cruickshank Award, Gordon Research Conference (2000)
  • Hugh Huffman Memorial Award, The Calorimetry Conference (2000)
  • Ceramic Educational Council Outstanding Educator Award (2000)
  • American Ceramic Society Fellow (2001)
  • American Ceramic Society, Best Paper Award of the Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division (2001)
  • Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science (2002)
  • Highly Cited Researchers Award, ISI Thomson Scientific (2002)
  • Fellow, The Minerological Society (Great Britain) (2004)
  • Urey Medal, European Association of Geochemistry (EAG) (2005)
  • Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award, American Ceramic Society(ACerS)(2005)
  • Rossini Award, International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics (IACT)(2006)
  • Harry H. Hess Medalist, American Geophysical Union (AGU)(2006)
  • Roebling Award, Mineralogical Society of America (2009)
  • Best University Paper Award, DOE Geoscience Grantee Meeting (2009)
  • Elected to the American Philosophical Society (2011)