The F.W. Clarke Medal is an annual award presented by the Geochemical Society to an early-career

scientist A scientist is a person who conducts Scientific method, scientific research to advance knowledge in an Branches of science, area of the natural sciences. In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, ...

for a single outstanding contribution to

geochemistry Geochemistry is the science that uses the tools and principles of chemistry to explain the mechanisms behind major geological systems such as the Earth's crust and its oceans. The realm of geochemistry extends beyond the Earth, encompassing the e ...

or cosmochemistry, published either as a single paper or a series of papers on a single topic. The award is named after

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke Frank Wigglesworth Clarke (March 19, 1847 – May 23, 1931) of Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C. was an American scientist and chemist. Sometimes known as the "Father of Geochemistry," Clarke is credited with determining the compositi ...

, one of the founding fathers of geochemistry. F.W. Clarke medal have in the past been disproportionately given to white men, though this is changing.

List of recipients

* Source
Geochemical Society
* 1972 Dimitri A. Papanastassiou * 1973 Hiroshi Ohmoto * 1974 Lawrence Grossman * 1975 David Walker * 1976 James R. Wood * 1977 Bjorn O. Mysen * 1978 Donald J. DePaolo * 1979 Antonio C. Lasaga * 1980 R.W. Potter, II * 1981 Jean-Francois Minster * 1982 P. Jonathan Patchett * 1983

E. Bruce Watson Edward Bruce Watson (born 16 October 1950) is an American geochemist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Education and career Watson received in 1972 his bachelor's degree in geology from the University of New Hampshire and in ...

* 1984 Andrew S. MacKenzie * 1985 Edward M. Stolper * 1986 Mark D. Kurz * 1987 Eiichi Takahashi * 1988 Fred M. Phillips * 1989 No Award Given * 1990 Richard J. Walker * 1991 David M. Sherman * 1992 Emily Klein * 1993 Youxue Zhang * 1994 Carl B. Agee * 1995 Rebecca A. Lange * 1996 Patricia M. Dove * 1997 Jonathan Blundy * 1998 Munir Humayun * 1999 Andre Scheidegger * 2000 James Farquhar * 2001 Craig C. Lundstrom * 2002 Ruth E. Blake * 2003 Paul D. Asimow * 2004 Andrea Grottoli * 2005 James A. van Orman * 2006 Alexis S. Templeton * 2007 Ethan F. Baxter * 2008 Andrew D. Jacobson * 2009 Cin-Ty Lee * 2010 Thorsten Kleine * 2011

Rajdeep Dasgupta Rajdeep Dasgupta is a professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Rice University. In his research, he studies the role of subsurface melting and magma on the origin and evolution of the Earth and other terrestrial planets. Car ...

* 2012 David T. Johnston * 2013 Blair Schoene * 2014 Matthew G. Jackson * 2015 Anat Shahar * 2016 Laurence Yeung * 2017 Francis McCubbinhttps://www.geochemsoc.org/awards/fwclarkeaward/ Geochemical Society * 2018 Noah Planavsky * 2019 Thomas Kruijer * 2020 Daniel Stolper * 2021 Mark Torres * 2022 Yige Zhang * 2023 Sarah Aarons * 2024 Jihua Hao

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External links

* {{Official website, http://www.geochemsoc.org/awards/fwclarkeaward.htm American science and technology awards Earth sciences awards Awards established in 1972 Early career awards Geochemical Society

List of recipients

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