Call for Nominations for the 2011 Urey Medal
A committee has been appointed to select the 4th recipient of the H.C. Urey Medal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life, which will be presented at ISSOL 2011 in Montpelier. In keeping with established procedure, the chair of the committee is James Kasting, who was awarded the 7th A.I. Oparin Medal at ISSOL 2008 in Florence.
The 2011 Urey Medal will be awarded “to the scientist deemed to have had the best sustained scientific research program in the origin of life field”. The rules adopted by the ISSOL Executive Council state:
“Any full member of ISSOL may submit nominations. The nominations must be in the form of a letter (~250 words) describing the nominee’s contributions to the field, and must be accompanied by a list of not more than ten of the nominee’s major publications”.
The Executive Council passed a resolution that the A.I. Oparin and H.C. Urey Medals will be presented at alternate ISSOL meetings and that no single individual may be recipient of both awards. Thus the former recipients, listed below, are not eligible for nomination.
Oparin and Urey Medals 1980–2008
1980 Cyril Ponnamperuma (USA) 1st Oparin
1983 Stanley Miller (USA) 2nd Oparin
1986 Joan Oró (USA) 3rd Oparin
1989 J. William Schopf (USA) 4th Oparin
1993 Leslie Orgel (USA) 1st Urey
1996 James Ferris (USA) 5th Oparin
1999 Alan Schwartz (The Netherlands) 2nd Urey
2002 Albert Eschenmoser (Switzerland) 6th Oparin
2005 Gerald Joyce (USA) 3rd Urey
2008 James Kasting (USA) 7th Oparin
Nominations must be received no later than December 31, 2010, and must be sent to:
Professor James F. Kasting
Department of Geosciences
Penn State University
211 Deike Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone 1-814-865-3207
Fax 1-814-865-3191
E-mail jfk4@psu.edu