The Stephan Mueller Medal is an annual award in

geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and Physical property, properties of Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Geophysicists conduct i ...

established in 1997 by the Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division of the

European Geophysical Society The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet". The organisation has headq ...

(EGS). Since the merger of the EGS into the

European Geosciences Union The European Geosciences Union (EGU) is a non-profit international union in the fields of Earth, planetary, and space sciences whose vision is to "realise a sustainable and just future for humanity and for the planet". The organisation has headq ...

(EGU) in 2002, the medal has been awarded by the EGU since 2005. The medal, for outstanding achievements in

tectonics Tectonics ( via Latin ) are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time. The field of ''planetary tectonics'' extends the concept to other planets and moons. These processes ...

and geophysics of the

lithosphere A lithosphere () is the rigid, outermost rocky shell of a terrestrial planet or natural satellite. On Earth, it is composed of the crust and the lithospheric mantle, the topmost portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time ...

, is awarded in honour of Stephan Mueller. The medal has been awarded during the annual EGU General Assembly each year since 2005 (except for the year 2022 due to the

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). The prize recipient is selected by a committee from the EGU's Section on Solid Earth Geophysics.

Recipients

* 1998:

Peter A. Ziegler Peter Alfred Ziegler (2 November 1928 – 19 July 2013) was a Swiss geologist, who made contributions to the understanding of the geological evolution of Europe and the North Atlantic borderlands, of intraplate tectonics and of plate tectoni ...

* 1999: Raul Madariaga * 2000:

Rinus Wortel Marinus Johannes Richardus "Rinus" Wortel (born 18 December 1947) is a Dutch geophysicist. He was professor of tectonophysics at Utrecht University between 1989 and 2012. Since 2013 he has been unpaid professor of geophysics at the same universit ...

(M. J. R. Wortel) * 2005: Alan G. Green * 2006: Sierd A. P. L. Cloetingh * 2007: David G. Gee * 2008: Jean-Pierre Brun * 2009: Stefan M. Schmid * 2010: Seth Stein * 2011:

Laurent Jolivet Laurent may refer to: *Laurent (name), a French masculine given name and a surname **Saint Laurence (aka: Saint ''Laurent''), the martyr Laurent **Pierre Alphonse Laurent, mathematician **Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent, amateur astronomer, discoverer ...

* 2012: Jacques Malavieille * 2013: Leigh H. Royden * 2014:

Claudio Faccenna Claudio is an Italian and Spanish first name. In Portuguese, it is accented Cláudio. In Catalan and Occitan, it is Claudi, while in Romanian it is Claudiu. Origin and history Claudius was the name of an eminent Roman gens, the most importan ...

* 2015: Evgueni B. Burov * 2016:

Renée Heilbronner Renée (without the accent in non-French speaking countries) is a French feminine given name and surname. Renée is the female form of René, with the extra "e" making it feminine according to French grammar. The name Renée is the French form ...

* 2017:

Cees Passchier Cees () is a Dutch masculine given name, a short form of Cornelis. Since, as in English, the letter "c" before "e" is normally pronounced in Dutch, the alternative spelling Kees is more common. Notable people named Cees include: * Cees Andriess ...

* 2018: John P. Platt * 2019:

Serge Lallemand Serge may refer to: *Serge (fabric), a type of twill fabric *Serge (llama) (born 2005), a llama in the Cirque Franco-Italien and internet meme *Serge (name), a masculine given name (includes a list of people with this name) *Serge (post), a hitchi ...

* 2020:

Mathilde Cannat Mathilde Cannat is a French geologist known for her research on the formation of oceanic crust and the tectonic and magmatic changes of mid-ocean ridges. Education and career Cannat earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from University of Nantes where sh ...

* 2021:

R. Dietmar Müller R. or r. may refer to: * ''Reign'', the period of time during which an Emperor, king, queen, etc., is ruler * '' Rex'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning King * ''Regina'', abbreviated as R., the Latin word meaning Queen * or , abbreviate ...

* 2023: Richard G. Gordon{{cite web , url=https://www.egu.eu/news/937/egu-announces-its-2023-awards-and-medals/ , title=EGU announces its 2023 awards and medals , website=European Geosciences Union (egu.eu) , date=30 November 2022

References

Geophysics awards Awards of the European Geosciences Union Awards established in 1997