The Stephan Mueller Medal is an annual award in

geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and physical properties of the Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. The term ''geophysics'' som ...

established in 1997 by the Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division of the

European Geophysical Society The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet." The organisation has headq ...

(EGS). Since the merger of the EGS into the

European Geosciences Union The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet." The organisation has headq ...

(EGU) in 2002, the medal has been awarded by the EGU since 2005. The medal, for outstanding achievements in

tectonics Tectonics (; ) are the processes that control the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time. These include the processes of mountain building, the growth and behavior of the strong, old cores of continents k ...

and geophysics of the

lithosphere A lithosphere () is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust (geology), crust and the portion of the upper mantle (geology), mantle that behaves elastically on time sca ...

, is awarded in honour of Stephan Mueller. The medal has been awarded during the annual EGU General Assembly each year since 2005 (except for the year 2022 due to the

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). The prize recipient is selected by a committee from the EGU's Section on Solid Earth Geophysics.

Recipients

* 1998: Peter A. Ziegler * 1999: Raul Madariaga * 2000: Rinus Wortel (M. J. R. Wortel) * 2005: Alan G. Green * 2006: Sierd A. P. L. Cloetingh * 2007: David G. Gee * 2008: Jean-Pierre Brun * 2009: Stefan M. Schmid * 2010:

Seth Stein Seth Avram Stein (born July 12, 1953, in Middletown, Connecticut) is an American geophysicist with an international reputation for his research in plate tectonics, seismology, and space geodesy. He has also done important work in public policy for ...

* 2011: Laurent Jolivet * 2012: Jacques Malavieille * 2013: Leigh H. Royden * 2014: Claudio Faccenna * 2015: Evgueni B. Burov * 2016: Renée Heilbronner * 2017: Cees Passchier * 2018: John P. Platt * 2019: Serge Lallemand * 2020: Mathilde Cannat * 2021: R. Dietmar Müller * 2023:

Richard G. Gordon Richard G. Gordon (born 1953) is an American geophysicist, known for his research on global tectonics, including global plate motions and palaeomagnetism. He is noteworthy for leading two global plate motion projects: NUVEL (Northwest University V ...

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References

Geophysics awards Awards of the European Geosciences Union Awards established in 1997