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WAGER
MEDAL - TO BE AWARDED IN 2011
The Wager Medal honors the memory of Professor Lawrence
Rickard Wager of the University of Oxford, United Kingdom,
who was born in 1904 and died in 1965. 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. The medal is given every two years to a single
scientist under the age of 43 who has made outstanding contributions to volcanology, particularly in the eight-year period
prior to the Awards. Candidates must be under the age of 43 on the
31 of December of the year preceding the IAVCEI General or
Scientific Assembly at which the award is made.
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