From: Subject: BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | Professor's work wins $1m prize Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:57:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0000_01C88910.CA332290" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0000_01C88910.CA332290 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7299402.stm BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | = Professor's work wins $1m prize
Professor's work wins $1m prize
A Bristol = University professor has won a prestigious international award worth US = $1m=20 (=A3495,000) in recognition of his work in organic geochemistry.

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Eglinton FRS of the University's School = of=20 Chemistry is a Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences.=20

He was named as one of the winners of the Dan David Prize.=20

Other 2008 laureates are the former Vice-President of the US, Al Gore = and=20 acclaimed playwright, Tom Stoppard.=20

The laureates, who donate 10% of their prize money towards 20 = doctoral and=20 postdoctoral scholarships, will be honoured at a ceremony on 19 May 2008 = at Tel=20 Aviv University in the presence of the President of the State of Israel, = Mr=20 Shimon Peres.=20

Climate change

The prize is awarded in three categories dubbed 'Past, Present and = Future=20 Time Dimensions'.=20

These are: 'Creative Rendering of the Past - Literature, Theatre, = Film',=20 'Social Responsibility with Particular Emphasis on the Environment' and=20 'Geosciences'.=20

Professor Eglinton was recognised in the Geosciences category for his = studies=20 of organic chemical fossils, which reveal the inhabitants and climates = of=20 ancient worlds.=20

He shares the prize with Ellen Moseley-Thompson and Lonnie G. = Thompson of=20 Ohio State University for their study of ice cores.=20

"This award to Geoffrey Eglington is most deserved in view of his = truly=20 ground-breaking contributions which combine the principles of chemistry = and=20 geology to reconstruct past environments and climate change," said = Professor=20 Richard Evershed of the School of Chemistry.=20

"His development of biomolecular measurements to determine ocean = temperature=20 was before its time and has become enormously important in the climate = change=20 debate."=20

The prize is named after international businessman and philanthropist = Dan=20 David.=20

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Published:=20 2008/03/16 12:51:23 GMT

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