The V. M. Goldschmidt Award is an award given by the

Geochemical Society The Geochemical Society is a nonprofit scientific organization founded to encourage the application of chemistry to solve problems involving geology and cosmology. The society promotes understanding of geochemistry through the annual Goldschmidt Co ...

at the V. M. Goldschmidt Conference for achievements in the fields of

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 ...

and

cosmochemistry Cosmochemistry (from Greek κόσμος ''kósmos'', "universe" and χημεία ''khemeía'') or chemical cosmology is the study of the chemical composition of matter in the universe and the processes that led to those compositions. This is done ...

. The award in honor of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, a pioneer in both those fields.

Winners

*1972 Paul W. Gast *1973 Robert M. Garrels *1974 Hans E. Suess *1975 Harold C. Urey *1976 Hans P. Eugster *1977 Samuel Epstein *1978 Gerald J. Wasserburg *1979 Harmon Craig *1980 Clair C. Patterson *1981

Robert N. Clayton Robert Norman Clayton (March 20, 1930 – December 30, 2017) was a Canadian-American chemist and academic. He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Chicago. Clayton studied cosmochemistry ...

*1982 Konrad B. Krauskopf *1983 Samuel S. Goldich *1984 Alfred Nier *1985 James B. Thompson Jr. *1986

Claude Allègre Claude Allègre (; born 31 March 1937) is a French politician and scientist. Scientific work The main scientific area of Claude Allègre was geochemistry. Allègre co-authored an ''Introduction to geochemistry'' in 1974. Since the 1980s, he ...

*1987 Wallace S. Broecker *1988 Harold C. Helgeson *1989 Karl K. Turekian *1990 Edward Anders *1991

Alfred Edward Ringwood Alfred Edward "Ted" Ringwood FRS FAA (19 April 1930 – 12 November 1993) was an Australian experimental geophysicist and geochemist, and the 1988 recipient of the Wollaston Medal. The mineral ringwoodite is named after him. Early life and ...

*1992 Stanley R. Hart *1993 S. Ross Taylor *1994 Heinrich D. Holland *1995 Robert A. Berner *1996 Albrecht W. Hofmann *1997 Devendra Lal *1998

Werner Stumm Werner Stumm (1924 – 14 April 1999) was a Swiss chemist. After earning his doctorate in inorganic chemistry at the University of Zürich in 1952 he moved to the U.S. where he was active as a professor at Harvard University until 1969. From 197 ...

*1999 *2000 Geoffrey Eglinton *2001 Ikuo Kushiro *2002 John M. Hayes *2003 Bernard J. Wood *2004 James R. O'Neil *2005 E. Bruce Watson *2006

Susan Solomon Susan Solomon (born January 19, 1956 in Chicago) is an American atmospheric chemist, working for most of her career at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In 2011, Solomon joined the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech ...

*2007 Guenter Lugmair *2008 Francis Albarède *2009 Mark H. Thiemens *2010 Minoru Ozima *2011 Frank Millero *2012 Edward M. Stolper *2013 Henry "Harry" Elderfield *2014 Timothy Grove *2015 Miriam Kastner *2016

Alexandra Navrotsky Alexandra Navrotsky (born 20 June 1943 in New York City) is a physical chemist in the field of nanogeoscience. She is an elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the American Philosophical Society (APS). She w ...

*2017 Jill Banfield *2018 Michael A. Arthur *2019 Donald DePaolo *2020 Richard Carlson *2021 Bernard Marty

References

{{Reflist Geochemistry Earth sciences awards Geochemical Society