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2023 RECIPIENT
Chris Hawkesworth
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Chris Hawkesworth has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of a broad range of geochemical problems, including the geochemistry of continental flood basalts, the petrology and geochemistry of granites, the geochemistry of Andesitic vol...
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2022 RECIPIENT
Seth Stein
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Seth Stein is an extraordinary scientist who has made fundamental contributions to many geophysical disciplines. He has investigated processes within Earth’s lithosphere using techniques including seismology, space-based geodesy and marine geophysics...
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2021 RECIPIENT
T. Mark Harrison
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Professor Mark Harrison of the University of California, Los Angeles, is a geochemist and geochronologist whose interests and contributions span a broad range, including, but not limited to, present-day tectonics of the Himalayas and Tibet, the natur...
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2020 RECIPIENT
Susan L Beck
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2019 RECIPIENT
Leigh Royden
2018 RECIPIENT
Philip C England
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Philip England recognizes that the goal of science is to understand nature’s processes, the essence of understanding is the ability to predict from general conditions, bringing understanding to Joe Sixpack requires simplicity, and simple unders...
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2016 RECIPIENT
Samuel A Bowring
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Sam Bowring’s expertise as a field geologist, his enormous breadth of knowledge, and his unwavering pursuit of the highest possible precision and accuracy in uranium-lead geochronology has transformed our understanding of the time when li...
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2014 RECIPIENT
Bryan L Isacks
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Many would agree that the recognition of plate tectonics has been the most significant development in the geosciences since Darwin and Wallace proposed evolution by natural selection. Reduced to its essence, plate tectonics includes seafloor spreadin...
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