The Dana Medal, established in 1998, is awarded by the
Mineralogical Society of America
The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, ...
and is named in honor of the contributions made by
James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcano, volcanic activity, and the ...
(1813–1895) and
Edward Salisbury Dana (1849–1935) to the science of mineralogy. It recognizes outstanding scientific contributions through original research in the mineralogical sciences by an individual in the midst of his or her career.
Recipients
Source:
*2001 –
George R. Rossman
*2002 –
Michael F. Hochella, Jr.
*2003 –
Mark S. Ghiorso
*2004 –
R. James Kirkpatrick
*2005 –
William D. Carlson
*2006 –
Rodney C. Ewing
*2007 –
Frank S. Spear
*2008 –
Thomas Armbruster
*2009 –
Ronald E. Cohen
*2010 –
Jillian F. Banfield
*2011 –
Ross John Angel
*2012 –
Roberta Rudnick
*2013 –
Max W. Schmidt
*2014 –
Patricia M. Dove
*2015 –
Marc M. Hirschmann
*2016 –
Patrick Cordier
*2016 -
Sumit Chakraborty
*2017 - Thomas W. Sisson
*2018 - Jörg Hermann
*2019 - Matthew J. Kohn
*2020 -
Daniela Rubatto
*2021 - Sergey V. Krivovichev
*2022 - Cin-Ty Lee
*2023 -
Razvan Caracas
*2024 - Fabrizio Nestola
See also
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List of geology awards
This list of geology awards is an index to articles on notable awards for geology, an earth science concerned with the solid earth, solid Earth, the rock (geology), rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. G ...
References
Mineralogy
Geology awards
Awards established in 1998
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