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Vetlesen Prize

MAY 01, 1964
Physics Today

Pentti Eelis Eskola, professor emeritus of geology and mineralogy at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and Arthur Holmes, retired professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, have been named winners of Columbia University’s $25 000 Vetlesen Prize. Announcement of the award, which recognized achievements in the earth sciences, was made on March 25 by Maurice Ewing, director of Columbia’s Lamont Geological Observatory and winner of the first of the Vetlesen prizes.

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