Inge Lehmann Medal
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The Inge Lehmann Medal is given out by the American Geophysical Union
to recognize "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure, composition, and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core". The award was created in 1997 and named after Inge Lehmann
. The Lehmann Medal will be given not more often than every other year
American Geophysical Union
The American Geophysical Union is a nonprofit organization of geophysicists, consisting of over 50,000 members from over 135 countries. AGU's activities are focused on the organization and dissemination of scientific information in the interdisciplinary and international field of geophysics...
to recognize "outstanding contributions to the understanding of the structure, composition, and dynamics of the Earth's mantle and core". The award was created in 1997 and named after Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann FRS , was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth's core is not one single molten sphere, but that an inner core exists which has physical properties that are different from those of the outer core.-Life:Inge Lehmann was born and grew up in Østerbro, a part of...
. The Lehmann Medal will be given not more often than every other year
Past recipients
- 1997 Donald Helmberger
- 2000 Richard J. O'Connell
- 2001 John H. Woodhouse
- 2003 Francis A. Dahlen, Jr.
- 2005 Thomas H. JordanThomas H. JordanThomas H Jordan is a geophysicist and current director of the Southern California Earthquake Center at The University of Southern California. He was formerly the head of the Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of the...
- 2007 Ho-Kwang (Dave) Mao
- 2009 Barbara A. Romanowicz
- 2011 Donald Weidner