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The disciplines for which the Crafoord Prize is awarded are chosen so as to complement the Nobel Prizes. [2] Only one award is given each year, according to a rotating scheme – astronomy and mathematics, then geosciences, then biosciences. [ 1 ]
He was a winner of the Crafoord Prize [5] [6] and a fellow of the American Geophysical Union. He won the Crafoord Prize in 2014 for discovering "the driving forces behind plate motions and the place of continents in the plate tectonic model of Earth's evolution. Innovatively combining geological and geophysical methods of inquiry with satellite ...
Claude Allègre (French, 1937– ) Crafoord Prize; Don L. Anderson (American, 1933–2014) – seismology and Earth's interior (including the Preliminary reference Earth model); Crafoord Prize; Nigel Anstey (British, 1927– ) – exploration geophysicist ; Maurice Ewing Medal (SEG) Tanya Atwater (American, 1942– ) – plate tectonic history ...
The prize is presented by the King of Sweden... "research in the disciplines of astronomy and mathematics; geosciences; and biosciences, with particular emphasis on ecology and polyarthritis (rheumatoid arthritis)", the disease from which Holger severely suffered in his last years. " Okay. The Rambling Man 06:58, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Crafoord Prize (1982), whose laureates are selected by Swedish Royal Academies, who are also responsible for the selection of Nobel Prize laureates in physics, chemistry, literature, and economics, recognizing outstanding achievements in four disciplines to complement the Nobel (namely, astronomy and mathematics; geosciences; biosciences, with ...
He received the A.G. Huntsman Award for Excellence in the Marine Sciences from the Royal Society of Canada in 1985, the Crafoord Prize in Geoscience, [20] the National Medal of Science in 1996, [21] Maurice W. Ewing Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the Alexander Agassiz Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, the Urey Medal of the ...
Crafoord Prize (1986) Arthur Holmes Medal (1987) Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1991) ... of the Crafoord Prize in Geosciences in 1986. He was the ...
2017 – Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship by the National Academy of Sciences for substantive work in atmospheric chemistry and climate change [42] 2018 – Bakerian Lecture [43] [44] 2018 – Crafoord Prize in Geosciences [45] 2019 – Made one of the members of the inaugural class of the Government Hall of Fame [46]