Urey Medal


The Urey Medal is given annually by the European Association of Geochemistry for outstanding contributions advancing Geochemistry over a career. The award is named after the physical chemist Harold Urey, FRS.

Urey Medalists

YearNameInstitution
1990Wallace S. Broecker and Hans OeschgerColumbia University, USA, and University of Bern, Switzerland
1995Samuel Epstein, Robert N. Clayton, and Hugh P. Taylor, Jr.California Institute of Technology and University of Chicago, USA
1997Geoffrey Eglinton and John HayesUniversity of Bristol, UK and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA
1998Jean-Guy SchillingUniversity of Rhode Island, USA
1999John M. EdmondMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2000Donald J. DePaoloUniversity of Berkeley, USA
2001Keith O'NionsUniversity of Oxford, UK
2002Grenville TurnerUniversity of Manchester, UK
2003Nicholas ShackletonUniversity of Cambridge, UK
2004Harold C. HelgesonUniversity of Berkeley, USA
2005Alexandra NavrotskyUniversity of California, Davis, USA
2006Herbert PalmeUniversity of Cologne, Germany
2007Harry ElderfieldCambridge University, UK
2008Pascal Richet IPGP, France
2009François MorelPrinceton University, USA
2010Charles Langmuir Harvard University, USA
2011Donald E. CanfieldUniversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark
2012Alexander HallidayUniversity of Oxford, UK
2013Igor TolstikhinRussian Academy of Sciences
2014Edward BoyleMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2015Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Germany
2016University of Bern, Switzerland
2017Tohoku University, Japan
2018Susan L. BrantleyPennsylvania State, USA
2019Eric OelkersGET Laboratory, CNRS, France