Christiaan Huygens Medal

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The Christiaan Huygens Medal is a science award named after Christiaan Huygens , awarded by the Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems department within the European Geosciences Union to researchers with merits in the department's research focus.

organization

With the Christiaan Huygens Medal are from the Department of Geosciences Instrumentation and Data Systems (GI) to German geoscientific instrumentation and data systems , the French non-profit organization Union européenne of Geosciences , commonly known as European Geosciences Union excellent (EGU), persons which represent innovations, developments and discoveries in the central area of ​​responsibility of the department or a series of work that builds on one another to achieve significant progress. The GI department researches high-precision measuring devices for the geosciences, mathematical constructs for evaluating the measurement data and drawing conclusions about invisible peculiarities and processes.

Since 2008, the Christiaan Huygens Medal has been awarded at the EGU's annual meeting.

No medal was awarded between 2012 and 2014.

The design of the medal was created by József Kótai for the EGU and shows a portrait relief by Christiaan Huygens on the picture side.

In addition to this medal, the EGU itself and other departments recognize important researchers with medals and prizes.

Prize winners

Awards Remarks
2008:   Horst Uwe Keller Developer for precision cameras that can be operated in space
2009:   Valery Korepanov Developer of sensors and instruments
2010:   Jean-Loup Bertaux Astronomer, son of the French Germanist Pierre Bertaux
2011:   Martin Hürlimann researches nuclear magnetic resonance
2015:   Kristine M. Larson Geodesist ; Precision GPS
2016:   Karl U. Schreiber Geodesic; Terrestrial ring lasers
2017:   Riccardo Lanari Italian electrical engineer; High precision radar
2018:   Jothiram Vivekanandan Atmospheric researchers, atmospheric radar and data analysis
2019:   Lev V. Eppelbaum Geophysicist; Data analysis
2020: Raffaele Persico

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Awards & medals: Christiaan Huygens Medal ( en ) In: EGU Home . European Geosciences Union. 2019. Accessed March 23, 2019.
  2. ↑ Imprint. In: EGU online. Union européenne des géosciences (EGU), accessed on March 25, 2019 (English).
  3. ^ Huygens Medal for researchers in Wettzell. In: Mittelbayerische.de. Mittelbayerischer Verlag KG, May 9, 2016, accessed on March 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Christian Huygens medal large. (JPG) In: egu.eu. Union Européenne des géosciences (EGU), accessed on March 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ EGU awards & medals. In: EGU online. Union européenne des géosciences (EGU), accessed on March 25, 2019 (English).
  6. ↑ Christiaan Huygens Medal in 2018: Jothiram Vivekanandan ( English ) In: egu.eu . Union européenne des geosciences (EGU). Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  7. ↑ Christiaan Huygens Medal in 2019: Lev V. Eppelbaum ( English ) In: egu.eu . Union européenne des geosciences (EGU). Retrieved March 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ EGU announces 2020 awards and medals. In: egu.eu. October 22, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .