Vetlesen Prize

The Vetlesen Prize is an award in geophysics and geology from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University . It is named after the Norwegian entrepreneur and philanthropist Georg Unger Vetlesen (1889–1959), whose foundation finances the award.

Award winners

• 1960: Maurice Ewing , USA
• 1962: Harold Jeffreys , Great Britain, and Felix Andries Vening-Meinesz , Netherlands
• 1964: Pentti Eskola , Finland, and Arthur Holmes , Great Britain
• 1966: Jan Hendrik Oort , Netherlands
• 1968: Albert Francis Birch , USA, and Edward C. Bullard , Great Britain
• 1970: Allan V. Cox , USA, Richard Doell , USA, and Keith Runcorn , Great Britain
• 1973: William Alfred Fowler , USA
• 1974: Chaim L. Pekeris , Israel
• 1978: John Tuzo Wilson , Canada
• 1981: Marion King Hubbert , USA
• 1987: Wallace Smith Broecker , USA, and Harmon Craig , USA
• 1993: Walter Munk , USA
• 1996: Robert E. Dickinson , USA, and John Imbrie , USA
• 2000: W. Jason Morgan , USA, Walter C. Pitman , USA, and Lynn R. Sykes , USA
• 2004: William Richard Peltier , Canada and Nicholas Shackleton , Great Britain
• 2008: Walter Alvarez , USA
• 2012: Susan Solomon , USA, Jean Jouzel , France
• 2015: Stephen Sparks , UK
• 2017: S. George Philander , USA, and Mark A. Cane , USA
• 2020: Anny Cazenave , USA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kevin Krajick: Pioneer in Charting Modern Sea Level Rise to Receive 2020 Vetlesen Prize. In: blogs.ei.columbia.edu. January 21, 2020, accessed on January 25, 2020 . 

Web links

• Vetlesen Prize and Prize Winner at Columbia University (columbia.edu)