Recipient of the 2017 Urey Award:
Eiji Ohtani, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Eiji Ohtani is Emeritus Professor of Department of Earth Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Currently, he is also Distinguished Affiliated Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany, Visiting Research Scientist of Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia, Guest Professor at the China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), China, and Visiting Professor of Center for Integrated Research and Education of Natural Hazards, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan. Read more
Make a nomination for the 2018 Urey Award by 15 November 2017
About the Urey Award
The 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. The award consists of an engraved medal, an honorarium (1000 Euros), a certificate and inclusion as a Geochemical Fellow.
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.
Former recipients of the Urey Award
- 2016 Klaus Mezger, University of Bern, Switzerland
- 2015 Albrecht W. Hofmann, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
- 2014 Edward Boyle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- 2013 Igor Tolstikhin, Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2012 Alexander Halliday, University of Oxford, UK
- 2011 Donald E. Canfield, University of South Denmark, Denmark
- 2010 Charles Langmuir, Harvard University, USA
- 2009 François Morel, Princeton, USA
- 2008 Pascal Richet, IPGP, France
- 2007 Harry Elderfield, Cambridge University, UK
- 2006 Herbert Palme, Senckenberg Research Institute, Germany
- 2005 Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California, Davis, USA
- 2004 Harold C. Helgeson, University of Berkeley, USA
- 2003 Nicholas Shackleton, University of Cambridge, UK
- 2002 Grenville Turner, University of Manchester, UK
- 2001 Keith O’Nions, Imperial College London, UK
- 2000 Donald DePaolo, University of Berkeley, USA
- 1999 John Edmond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- 1998 Jean-Guy Schilling, University of Rhode Island, USA
- 1997 Geoffrey Eglinton, University of Bristol, UK and John Hayes, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
- 1995 Samuel Epstein, California Institute of Technology, USA, Robert N. Clayton, University of Chicago, USA and Hugh P. Taylor, Jr., California Institute of Technology, USA
- 1990 Wallace S. Broecker, Columbia University, USA and Hans Oeschger, University of Bern, Switzerland
