Awards and Honors
- George Cody was elected Chair of the Chemistry Division, American Chemistry Society, in 2001, and also elected Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on the Origins of Life in 2005.
- Ronald Cohen was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society in fall 2002. He will receive the 2009 Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America.
- Marilyn Fogel was elected a fellow of the Geochemical Society in 2002 and a fellow of the Geological Society of America (2003)
- Robert Hazen was named Sigma Xi Distinguished Public Lecturer (2008-2010); National Science Foundation, Biosciences Directorate, Distinguished Public Lecturer (2007); Elected Chair, Gordon Research Conference on the Origin of Life (2007-2008).
- Russell Hemley (GL Director) received the Hillebrand Prize of the American Chemical Society in March 2003. In 2005, he and Ho-kwang Mao were award
Hemley & Mao, 2005 Balzan Award recipientsed the Balzan Prize in Mineral Physics.
- Wesley T. Huntress, Jr. (GL Director Emeritus) received the Dryden Lectureship in Research awarded by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2003. He received the Lifetime Associate of the National Academies awarded by the National Academies of Science and Engineering in 2004. He was made Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society in 2005. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Science awarded by Brown University in 2005. In 2006, received the William Randolf Lovelace II Award awarded by the American Astronautical Society.
- Ho-kwang Mao won the Mineralogical Society of America’s Roebling Medal for 2005 and the 2005 Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography “for pioneering research of materials at ultrahigh pressures and temperatures.” In 2005, he and Russell Hemley were awarded the Balzan Prize in Mineral Physics, and in 2007 he was awarded the Lehmann Medal of the American Geophysical Union.
- Bjorn Mysen is a Member of The Royal Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters since 1985. He was elected Geochemistry Fellow by both the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, 2008. He received the George W. Morey Award from the American Ceramic Society in 2005, the F. W. Clarke Award of the Geochemical Society of America in 1977, the Reusch Medal of the Norwegian Geological Society in 1979. He is in the original listing of ISI/Thomson Research Highly Cited list since 2001 (his is the list of the 1000 most cited scientists in the world of physical science over the last 20 years).
- Charles Prewitt (former GL Director) was awarded the 2003 Roebling Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America in November 2003.
- Douglas Rumble was President of the Mineralogical Society of America in 2003 and Vice President in 2002. He is a Past President of the Geological Society of Washington. He is a Fellow of the Geochemical Society, Fellow of the Geological Society of America, and Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.
- Viktor Struzhkin was recognized as an outstanding mentor by the Siemens Foundation, sponsor of the Siemens Westinghouse Competition in Math, Science, and Technology 2003.
