Richard Gordon has made many fundamental contributions to understanding how the crust and lithosphere move and deform in response to plate tectonics. Richard, with S. Stein and students C. DeMets and D. Argus, developed the NUVEL global plate motion ...

Frank Spear has lifted the field of metamorphic petrology from a largely static, classification-intensive field to one focused on quantitative determination of dynamic orogenic processes, providing a direct link between mineral parageneses and tecto...

Chris Hawkesworth has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of a broad range of geochemical problems, including the geochemistry of continental flood basalts, the petrology and geochemistry of granites, the geochemistry of Andesitic vol...

Seth Stein is an extraordinary scientist who has made fundamental contributions to many geophysical disciplines. He has investigated processes within Earth’s lithosphere using techniques including seismology, space-based geodesy and marine geophysics...

Professor Mark Harrison of the University of California, Los Angeles, is a geochemist and geochronologist whose interests and contributions span a broad range, including, but not limited to, present-day tectonics of the Himalayas and Tibet, the natur...

Philip England recognizes that the goal of science is to understand nature’s processes, the essence of understanding is the ability to predict from general conditions, bringing understanding to Joe Sixpack requires simplicity, and simple unders...