The European Geophysical Society (EGS) awarded medals to 13 individuals at a ceremony in Nice, France, this past April.
Götz Paschmann received the Hannes Alfvén Medal for his “outstanding contributions to the exploration and understanding of the magnetospheric boundaries and fundamental processes governing the interactions with the solar wind.” He is a senior scientist with the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and directs the International Space Science Institute, in Bern, Switzerland.
In bestowing its David Bates Medal on Eberhard Grün, EGS acknowledged Grün’s “innovative experimental and wide-ranging scientific contributions to dust research throughout the heliosphere.” He is a professor of physics at the University of Heidelberg in Germany and a researcher at both the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology.
The Vilhelm Bjerknes Medal went to Joost A. Businger for his “fundamental contributions to the understanding of...
