Houtermans Award

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The Houtermans Award is given annually by the European Association of Geochemistry for outstanding contributions to geochemistry made by scientists under 35 years old or within 6 years of their PhD award. [1] The award is named after Fritz Houtermans and consists of an engraved medal and an honorarium of 1000 Euros. The F.G. Houtermans award is the only category from Geochemica Society and European Association of Geochemistry awards with equal gender representation in the last decade. [2]

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Award winners

Source: ERG

YearName
1990 Michel Condomines
1995 Marc Chaussidon
1997 Ken Farley
1998 Terry Plank
1999 Erik Hauri
2000 Gleb Prokorvsky
2003 Jess Atkins
2004 Albert Galy
2005 Mark E. Hodson
2006 James Badro
2007 Steve Parman
2008 Nicolas Dauphas
2009 Nathan Yee
2010 Karim Benzerara
2011 Maud Boyet
2012 Frédéric Moynier
2013 James Day
2014 Liping Qin
2015 Caroline Peacock
2016 Kate Hendry, University of Bristol, UK
2017 Julie Prytulak, Imperial College London, UK
2018 Morgan Schaller, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
2019 Stefan Lalonde, CNRS / Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, France

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References

  1. "Awards". European Association of Geochemistry. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
  2. Pourret, Olivier; Anand, Pallavi; Arndt, Sandra; Bots, Pieter; Dosseto, Anthony; Li, Zimin; Marin Carbonne, Johanna; Middleton, Jennifer; Ngwenya, Bryne; j. v. Riches, Amy (2021). "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Tackling under-representation and recognition of talents in Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry". Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2021.05.054 . hdl: 20.500.11820/a40f7136-75ac-400d-bba1-07b8cf1fd766 .