Dr. Navrotsky Receives The 2009 Roebling Medal

Alexandra Navrotsky, Director of NEAT ORU at UC Davis, has received the 2009 Roebling Award. “The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy.”

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The following is taken from the MSA webpage:

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The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy.  The science of mineralogy is defined broadly for purposes of the Roebling Medal, and a candidate need not qualify as a mineralogist; rather his or her published research should be related to the mineralogical sciences and should make some outstanding contribution to them.  Service to mineralogy, teaching, and administrative accomplishment are not to be considered primary merit for the award.  The award is not restricted to U.S. citizens.  Nationality, personality, age of candidate, or place of employment shall not be considered for the award.

The recipient of the Roebling medal receives an engraved medal and is made a Life Fellow of the Society. The medal was designed by Dr. Avard Fairbanks, then at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Michigan (http://www.avardfairbanks.com/), and has been struck by the Medallic Art Co. since 1937. Medallic Art Co. mints some of the best-known medals, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Peabody Awards, the Medal of Honor, and portrait and presidential inaugural medals (http://www.medallic.com/).

Past Recipients of the MSA Roebling Medal

1937 Charles Palache 1938 Waldemar T. Schaller 1940 Leonard James Spencer 1941 Esper S. Larsen, Jr. 1945 Edward H. Kraus 1946 Clarence S. Ross 1947 Paul Niggli 1948 William Lawrence Bragg 1949 Herbert E. Merwin 1950 Norman L. Bowen 1952 Frederick E. Wright 1953 William F. Foshag 1954 Cecil Edgar Tilley 1955 Alexander N. Winchell 1956 Arthur F. Buddington 1957 Walter F. Hunt 1958 Martin J. Buerger 1959 Felix Machatschki 1960 Tom F.W. Barth 1961 Paul Ramdohr 1962 John W. Gruner 1963 John Frank Schairer 1964 Clifford Frondel

1965 Adolf Pabst 1966 Max H. Hey 1967 Linus Pauling 1968 Tei-ichi Ito 1969 Fritz Laves 1970 George W. Brindley 1971 J.D.H. Donnay 1972 Elburt F. Osborn 1973 George Tunell 1974 Ralph E. Grim 1975 Michael Fleischer 1975 O. Frank Tuttle 1976 Carl W. Correns 1977 Raimond Castaing 1978 James B. Thompson 1979 W.H. Taylor 1980 Dmitrii S. Korzhinskii 1981 Robert M. Garrels 1982 Joseph V. Smith 1983 Hans P. Eugster 1984 Paul B. Barton, Jr. 1985 Francis J. Turner 1986 Edwin Roedder

1987 Gerald V. Gibbs 1988 Julian R. Goldsmith 1989 Helen D. Megaw 1990 Sturges W. Bailey 1991 E-An Zen 1992 Hatten S. Yoder, Jr. 1993 Brian Mason 1994 William A. Bassett 1995 William S. Fyfe 1996 Donald H. Lindsley 1997 Ian Carmichael 1998 C. Wayne Burnham 1999 Ikuo Kushiro 2000 Robert C. Reynolds, Jr. 2001 Peter J. Wyllie 2002 Werner F. Schreyer 2003 Charles T. Prewitt 2004 Francis R. (Joe) Boyd 2005 Ho-kwang Mao 2006 W. Gary Ernst 2007 Gordon E. Brown, Jr. 2008 Bernard W. Evans

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