Dr. Navrotsky Receives Urey Medal
December
20, 2004
Alexandra Navrotsky , Director of NEAT ORU at UC Davis, has been presented with the Urey award. "The Urey award is the highest award of the (European Association of Geochemistry) EAG and honors outstanding senior scientists for their life-long contributions to geochemistry." The award will be presented to Dr. Navrotsky at this year's Goldschmidt Conference to be held in Moscow, Idaho in May, 2005.
Prof. Dr. T. M. Seward Tel : +41 1 632 22 27/28
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ProfessorAlexandra Navrotsky
NEAT ORU
and Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory
University of California at Davis
Davis, California95616-8779
USA
Zürich, 20 December 2004
Dear Professor Navrotsky,
As president of the European Association of Geochemistry (EAG), it is my very great pleasure to inform you that you have been chosen to receive the Urey medal of our society for 2005. The Urey award is the highest award of the EAG and honours outstanding senior scientists for their life-long contributions to geochemistry.
The Urey medal is normally presented at the annual Goldschmidt geochemistry meeting which is being held this year in May at Moscow, Idaho. We would very much hope that you will be able to receive the award in person at the Goldschmidt meeting.
The new in-coming president of the EAG, Professor Bruce Yardley of the University of Leeds will be in contact with you in the new year. In the meantime, I send my congratulations and wish you a happy new year.
With best wishes, I am,
Yours sincerely,
Terry M. Seward,
Professor of Geochemistry
The following is taken from the EAG webpage at http://www.rdg.ac.uk/soil/EAG/medals.html
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Urey Medal
EAG awards the Urey Medal every year to outstanding senior scientists for their life-long contribution to geochemistry. The Urey medal is now given every year during the Goldschmidt conference. The committee of the Urey medal is chaired by the president elect of EAG. The committee is composed of seven members (president plus six ordinary members) appointed by the President of EAG and the EAG council. The committee or members of EAG propose the candidates to the President. If there are any difficulties, the President can create a special committee within the EAG council in order to examine the case and if necessary to reorganise a new election.
Past recipients of the Urey medal are:
* 2004: Harold C. Helgeson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
* 2003: Nicholas Shackleton (University of Cambridge, UK)
* 2002: Grenville Turner, University of Manchester, U.K.
* 2001: Keith O'Nions, University of Oxford, U.K.
* 2000: Donald DePaolo, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
* 1999: John Edmond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A
* 1998: Jean-Guy Schilling, University of Rhode Island, U.S.A.
* 1997: Geoffrey Eglington, University of Bristol, U.K.
* 1995: Samuel Epstein, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
California, U.S.A., with Robert N. Clayton, University of Chicago, Illinois,
U.S.A. and Hugh P. Taylor, Jr. California Institue of Technology, Pasadena,
California, U.S.A.
* 1990: Wallace S. Broecker, Lamont Doherty Observatory, Lamont, New
York, U.S.A. with Hans Oeschger, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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