IMA medal

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Description

The IMA Medal From R.I. Gait, Royal Ontario Museum

The 2008 Medal was attributed to Professor Charles Prewitt during the 1st Vancouver Council Meeting.

Link to the anouncement of this news on the Carnegie Institution website

The annual IMA medal award was found in 2006, and the IMA medal presented to the IMA Council in Cambridge
(see also 'latest news' of July 2007)
Have a look at the 2008 IMA Medal announcement in Elements 2007, V3, 5.

Description of the award

The IMA medal is awarded for excellence in mineralogical research and is to be considered as one of the pre-eminent awards in this discipline. The recipient is chosen for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publications of outstanding original research in mineralogy. It will be a life-time achievement award.

The recipient of the IMA Medal is required to present a lecture on a topic related to the award at the meeting of the Association at which the medal is presented. The lecture will be published in a suitable international journal of mineralogy, with the agreement of the IMA Medal Committee.