The Louis Néel Medal has been awarded annually since 1994 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), usually for
magnetism
Magnetism is the class of physical attributes that occur through a magnetic field, which allows objects to attract or repel each other. Because both electric currents and magnetic moments of elementary particles give rise to a magnetic field, ...
,
palaeomagnetism
Paleomagnetism (occasionally palaeomagnetism) is the study of prehistoric Earth's magnetic fields recorded in rocks, sediment, or archeological materials. Geophysicists who specialize in paleomagnetism are called ''paleomagnetists.''
Certain ...
and
petrophysics
Petrophysics (from the Greek πέτρα, ''petra'', "rock" and φύσις, '' physis'', "nature") is the study of physical and chemical rock properties and their interactions with fluids.
A major application of petrophysics is in studying reserv ...
, and is named after the Nobel Laureate
Louis Néel
Louis Eugène Félix Néel (; 22 November 1904 – 17 November 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.
Biography
Néel studied at the Lyc ...
, known for his research in the field of magnetism. It is awarded for outstanding contributions in the application of experimental and theoretical methods of solid state physics to the study of earth sciences.
Medallists
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List of geology awards
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List of geophysics awards
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List of physics awards
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References
External links
Official Website
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Physics awards
Geology awards
Awards established in 1994
1994 establishments in Germany