Urey Award
Awarded during plenary on Tuesday 18th AugustThe Urey Award is bestowed annually by the society for outstanding contributions advancing geochemistry over a career. The award is based solely on scientific merit and is presented at the V.M. Goldschmidt Conference. It is named in honor of Harold Clayton Urey, an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 and later led him to theories of planetary evolution. More info
Awarded to: Al Hofmann Citationist: Steve Galer
Abstract: Canonical Trace Element Ratios in Mantle Melting – A Revisit
Medal lecture in:
Session 21f in Club H on Tuesday 18th August 09:45 - 10:30
Citation: Albrecht “Al” Hofmann is Emeritus Director of the Geochemistry Division of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany. Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor and Visiting Senior Research Scientist at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, Adjunct Professor at the University of Nanjing, China, and Guest Professor at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, China. Al’s research focuses on isotope and trace element geochemistry of Earth’s mantle.