The Vening Meinesz Medal is an annual award for outstanding research in geodesy.
Background The medal, inaugurated in 1994, has been awarded by the European Geosciences Union (EGU) since 2004, and before that by the European Geophysical Society (EGS). The medal is named in honor of Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, a Dutch geophysicists and geodesist, famous for his invention enabling precise measurements of gravity at sea. (reprinted at EGU website) The portrait medal was designed by the Hungarian artist , renowned for his work as a medalist, goldsmith, and silversmith.
The medal should not be confused with the NWO Vening Meinesz Prijs, a prize given, every two years, to outstanding young scientists who work in the geosciences and are employed in the Netherlands.
Recipients 1998 1999 Anny Cazenave 2000 Ivan I. Mueller 2002 Georges Balmino 2002 2003 Véronique Dehant 2004 John M. Wahr 2005 Martine Feissel-Vernier 2006 2007 Thomas A. Herring 2008 2009 Susanna Zerbini 2010 Philip L. Woodworth 2011 2012 Che-Kwan Shum 2013 Zuheir Altamimi 2014 Reinhard Dietrich 2015 Geoffrey Blewitt 2016 Srinivas Bettadpur 2017 Isabella Velicogna 2018 2019 Tonie van Dam 2020 2021 Christopher Jekeli 2022 Peter J. G. Teunissen 2023 2024 Jeffrey T. Freymueller
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