2021 – Robert M. Hazen
Researcher at the Carnegie Institution’s Geophysical Laboratory, now the Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington DC, USA, and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Robert (Bob) Hazen is recognized as an outstanding researcher for his impressive contributions to basic mineralogy, as well as its application and popularization. His research straddles the boundaries between mineralogy, chemistry, physics and biology and has led to fundamental breakthroughs in science. Prof. Hazen’s publication record extends over 50 years and contains incisive and original contributions to a variety of topics ranging from crystallography to crystal chemistry at high pressure and high temperature, astrobiology, mineral ecology and evolution. He played a pivotal role in initiating a major international collaborative research platform, the Deep Carbon Observatory, and his studies on mineral ecology and evolution are truly unique. He is unequaled in science communication and very active in science education in the broadest sense.
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