William Bowie Medal
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The William Bowie Medal is awarded annually by the American Geophysical Union
for 'outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics
and for unselfish cooperation in research". The award is named in honor of William Bowie
.
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...
for 'outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics
Geophysics
Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...
and for unselfish cooperation in research". The award is named in honor of William Bowie
William Bowie
William Bowie, B.S., C.E., M.A. was an American geodetic engineer.-Background and education:He was born at Grassland, an historic estate near Annapolis Junction, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to Thomas John Bowie and Susanna Anderson. He was educated in public schools, at St...
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Past recipients
- 1939 William BowieWilliam BowieWilliam Bowie, B.S., C.E., M.A. was an American geodetic engineer.-Background and education:He was born at Grassland, an historic estate near Annapolis Junction, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to Thomas John Bowie and Susanna Anderson. He was educated in public schools, at St...
- 1940 Arthur Louis DayArthur Louis DayLouis Day was an American geological physicist. He was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Day established the Arthur L. Day Medal , for "outstanding distinction in contributing to geologic knowledge through the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geologic problems", in...
- 1941 John Adam FlemingJohn Adam FlemingJohn Adam Fleming, was an American physicist interested in the magnetosphere and the atmospheric electricity....
- 1942 Nicholas Hunter Heck
- 1943 Oscar Edward Meinzer
- 1944 Henry Bryant BigelowHenry Bryant BigelowHenry Bryant Bigelow was an American oceanographer and marine biologist.After graduating from Harvard in 1901, he began working with famed ichthyologist Alexander Agassiz. Bigelow accompanied Agassiz on several major marine science expeditions including one aboard the Albatross in 1907...
- 1945 Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes
- 1946 Reginald Aldworth DalyReginald Aldworth Daly-External links:* Daly′s Biography, American Geophysical Union* GSA Today, vol. 16, no. 2, 2006* National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 36 pp., 1960...
- 1947 Felix Andries Vening MeineszFelix Andries Vening MeineszFelix Andries Vening Meinesz was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity. Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure gravity at sea, which led him to the discovery of gravity anomalies above the ocean floor...
- 1948 James B. MacelwaneJames B. MacelwaneJames B. Macelwane, S.J. was an American seismologist.Father Macelwane organized the Jesuit Seismological Service, whose central station is in St. Louis, Missouri.-External links:*...
- 1949 Walter Davis Lambert
- 1950 Leason Heberling Adams
- 1951 Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
- 1952 Harold JeffreysHarold JeffreysSir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His seminal book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.-Biography:Jeffreys was born in Fatfield, Washington, County...
- 1953 Beno GutenbergBeno GutenbergBeno Gutenberg was a German-American seismologist who made several important contributions to the science...
- 1954 Richard Montgomery Field
- 1955 Walter Hermann BucherWalter Hermann BucherDr. Walter Hermann Bucher was a German-American geologist and paleontologist.He was born in Akron, Ohio of Swiss-German parents. The family then returned to Germany where he was raised. In 1911 he was awarded a Ph.D. by the University of Heidelberg with a focus on geology and paleontology. The...
- 1956 Weikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
- 1957 William Maurice Ewing
- 1958 Johannes Theodoor Thijsse
- 1959 Walter M. ElsasserWalter M. ElsasserWalter Maurice Elsasser was a German-born American physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth...
- 1960 Francis BirchFrancis Birch (geophysicist)Albert Francis Birch was an American geophysicist best known for his experimental work on the properties of Earth-forming minerals at high pressure and temperature, in 1952 he published a well-known paper in the Journal of Geophysical Research ,where he demonstrated that the mantle is chiefly...
- 1961 Keith Edward BullenKeith Edward BullenKeith Edward Bullen FRS was a New Zealand-born mathematician and geophysicist. He is noted for his seismological interpretation of the deep structure of the Earth's mantle and core...
- 1962 Sydney Chapman
- 1963 Merle Antony Tuve
- 1964 Julius BartelsJulius BartelsJulius Bartels was a German geophysicist and statistician who made notable contributions to the physics of the Sun and Moon; to geomagnetism and meteorology; and to the physics of the ionosphere. He also made fundamental contributions to statistical methods for geophysics...
- 1965 Hugo BenioffHugo BenioffVictor Hugo Benioff was an American seismologist and a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is best remembered for his work in charting the location of deep earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean....
- 1966 Louis B. Slichter
- 1967 Lloyd BerknerLloyd BerknerLloyd Viel Berkner was an American physicist and engineer. He is notable as the first person to measure the height and density of the ionosphere. This permitted the first complete theory of short wave radio propagation.Later he investigated the development of the Earth's atmosphere...
- 1968 Roger RevelleRoger RevelleRoger Randall Dougan Revelle was a scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California, San Diego and was one of the first scientists to study global warming and the movement of Earth's tectonic plates...
- 1969 Walter B. Langbein
- 1970 Bernhard Haurwitz
- 1971 Inge LehmannInge LehmannInge 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...
- 1972 Carl EckartCarl EckartCarl Henry Eckart was an American physicist, physical oceanographer, geophysicist, and administrator. He co-developed the Wigner-Eckart theorem and is also known for the Eckart conditions in quantum mechanics.-Education:Eckart began college in 1919 at Washington University in St...
- 1973 George P. Woollard
- 1974 A.E. Ringwood
- 1975 Edward BullardEdward BullardSir Edward "Teddy" Crisp Bullard FRS was a geophysicist who is considered, along with Maurice Ewing, to have founded the discipline of marine geophysics...
- 1976 Jule G. Charney
- 1977 James A. Van Allen
- 1978 Helmut E. Landsberg
- 1979 Frank PressFrank PressFrank Press is an American geophysicist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Press was science advisor to President Jimmy Carter from1976 to 1980,and president of the U.S. NationalAcademy of Sciences from 1981 to 1993...
- 1980 Charles A. Whitten
- 1981 Herbert FriedmanHerbert FriedmanHerbert Friedman was an American pioneer in the application of sounding rockets to solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy. He was also a statesman and public advocate for science...
- 1982 Henry M. Stommel
- 1983 Syun-iti Akimoto
- 1984 Marcel Nicolet
- 1985 H. William Menard
- 1986 James DoogeJames DoogeJames Clement Dooge was an Irish politician, engineer, climatologist, hydrologist and academic. Dooge had a profound effect on the debate on climate change, in the world of hydrology and in politics in the formation of the European Union.Dooge lived a multifaceted existence with his roles...
- 1987 Robert N. Clayton
- 1988 Hannes AlfvenHannes AlfvénHannes Olof Gösta Alfvén was a Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on magnetohydrodynamics . He described the class of MHD waves now known as Alfvén waves...
- 1989 Walter H. Munk
- 1990 Eugene N. Parker
- 1991 Don L. AndersonDon L. AndersonDon Lynn Anderson is an American geophysicist who has made important contributions to the determination of the large-scale structure of the Earth's interior, especially using seismological methods. He is Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor emeritus of geophysics at the California Institute of...
- 1992 Alfred O. Nier
- 1993 Irwin I. ShapiroIrwin I. ShapiroIrwin I. Shapiro is an American astrophysicist. Since 1982, he has been a professor at Harvard University. Shapiro was director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1982 to 2004.- Biography :Irwin Shapiro was born in New York City in 1929...
- 1994 Peter S. Eagleson
- 1995 Claude AllègreClaude AllègreClaude Allègre is a French politician and scientist.- Scientific work :The main scientific area of Claude Allègre is geochemistry....
- 1996 Eugene Shoemaker
- 1997 Raymond HideRaymond HideRaymond Hide CBE FRS is a British physicist, who was formerly Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. Since 2000, he has been Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College, London.-Life:...
- 1998 Richard M. Goody
- 1999 J. Freeman Gilbert
- 2000 John A. SimpsonJohn A. SimpsonJohn Adrian Simpson was a Canadian politician and businessman. Born in Peel County, Ontario, he came west in 1890 and eventually settled in Innisfail, where he opened a lumberyard...
- 2001 Dan McKenzie
- 2002 Adam M. Dziewonski
- 2003 Donald L. Turcotte
- 2004 Keiiti AkiKeiiti Akiwas a professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , seismologist, author and mentor. He co-authored with Paul G. Richards, "Quantitative Seismology: theory and methods".Aki was born in Yokohama, Japan...
- 2005 Johannes Geiss
- 2006 Carl WunschCarl WunschCarl Wunsch is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physical Oceanography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his early work in internal waves and more recently for research into the effects of ocean circulation on climate.- Career :Wunsch received his Ph. D. in...
- 2007 Susan SolomonSusan SolomonSusan Solomon is an atmospheric chemist working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Solomon was one of the first to propose chlorofluorocarbons as the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole.Solomon is a member of the U.S...
- 2008 Gerald J. WasserburgGerald J. WasserburgGerald J. Wasserburg is an American geologist. He is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology...
- 2009 Ignacio Rodriguez-IturbeIgnacio Rodriguez-IturbeIgnacio Rodriguez-Iturbe is a Venezuelan scientist. He currently serves as the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princeton University...
- 2010 Syukuro ManabeSyukuro Manabeis a Japanese meteorologist and climatologist who pioneered the use of computers to simulate global climate change and natural climate variations.-Scientific accomplishments:...
- 2010 Louis J. LanzerottiLouis J. LanzerottiLouis John Lanzerotti is a research Professor of physics in the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey.-Education:...
External links
- Medal and Award Recipients – AGU William Bowie Medal