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Wager Medal

The Wager Medal is awarded every 2 years at both the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly and at the IAVCEI General Assembly to a scientist within 15 years after Ph.D acquisition*, who has made outstanding contributions to volcanology, particularly in the eight-year period prior to the Award.

*Excluding Career Breaks as defined in paragraph 4.3 of Statutes & By-Laws

The Wager Medal honours the memory of Professor Lawrence Rickard Wager of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He was born on 5 February 1904 in Batley and died on 20 November 1965 in London. Professor Wager is best known for the discovery of the Skaergaard layered intrusion and the first detailed structural, mineralogical and petrological study of such intrusions.

Wager Medal

PREVIOUS WAGER award winners

  • 1974 Franco BARBERI
  • 1974 J. VARET
  • 1978 R.S.J. SPARKS
  • 1987 Charlie BACON
  • 1993 Colin WILSON
  • 1993 Claude JAUPART
  • 1998 Giovanni MACEDONIO
  • 1998 Jon DAVIDSON
  • 2002 Andrew WOODS
  • 2002 James GARDNER
  • 2004 Andrew HARRIS
  • 2004 Oleg MELNIK
  • 2008 Joachim GOTTSMANN
  • 2008 Alessandro AIUPPA
  • 2011 Amanda CARKE
  • 2013 Antonio COSTA
  • 2013 Fidel COSTA
  • 2015 Tommaso ESPOSTI ONGARO
  • 2015 Mattia DE MICHIELI VITTURI
  • 2017 Marie EDMONDS
  • 2017 Yan LAVALLÉE
  • 2019 Madeleine HUMPHREYS
  • 2023 Susanna JENKINS
  • 2023 Yves MOUSSALAM
  • 2023 Michael J. HEAP
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