The Vening Meinesz Medal is an annual award for outstanding research in
geodesy
Geodesy ( ) is the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth's figure (geometric shape and size), orientation in space, and gravity. The field also incorporates studies of how these properties change over time and equivale ...
.
Background
The medal, inaugurated in 1994, has been awarded by the
European Geosciences Union (EGU) since 2004, and before that by 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).
The medal is named in honor of
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz (30 July 1887 – 10 August 1966) was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity (gravimetry). Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure g ...
, a Dutch
geophysicists and geodesist, famous for his invention enabling precise measurements of gravity at sea. The portrait medal was designed by the Hungarian artist ,
[ renowned for his work as a medalist, goldsmith, and silversmith.
The medal should not be confused with the NWO ''Vening Meinesz Prijs'', a prize given, every two years, to outstanding young scientists who work in the geosciences and are employed in the Netherlands.
]
Recipients
* 1998
* 1999
Anny Cazenave
Anny Cazenave () is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry. She works for the French space agency CNES and has been deputy director of the (LEGOS) at Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées in Toulouse since 1996. Since 20 ...
* 2000
Ivan I. Mueller Ivan Istvan Mueller (9 January 1930, Budapest – 12 April 2023, Bloomfield, Connecticut) was a Hungarian-American geodesist and
professor at Ohio State University, a leading training center for geodesy in the USA.
Biography
Ivan I. Mueller and h ...
* 2002
Georges Balmino
* 2002
* 2003
Véronique Dehant
* 2004
John M. Wahr
* 2005
Martine Feissel-Vernier
* 2006
* 2007
Thomas A. Herring
* 2008
* 2009
Susanna Zerbini
* 2010
Philip L. Woodworth
* 2011
* 2012
Che-Kwan Shum
* 2013
Zuheir Altamimi
* 2014
Reinhard Dietrich
Reinhard Dietrich (14 February 1932 – 7 March 2015) was a German sculptor.
Life
Reinhard Dietrich was born in Breslau less than a year before the increasingly challenged Weimar Republic, "Weimar" regime Machtergreifung, was replaced by the Naz ...
* 2015
Geoffrey Blewitt
* 2016
Srinivas Bettadpur
* 2017
Isabella Velicogna
* 2018
* 2019
Tonie van Dam
* 2020
* 2021
Christopher Jekeli
* 2022
Peter J. G. Teunissen
* 2023
* 2024
Jeffrey T. Freymueller[{{cite web, url=https://www.egu.eu/news/987/egu-announces-its-2024-awards-and-medals/ , title=EGU announces its 2024 awards and medals! , date=16 November 2023, website=News, European Geosciences Union (EGU)]
References
Awards of the European Geosciences Union
Awards established in 1998
Geodesy