The Vetlesen Prize

The Prize in 2008

Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the G. Unger Vetlesen Foundation will award the 2008 Vetlesen Prize, considered by many the earth sciences’ equivalent of a Nobel award, to geologist Walter Alvarez.

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Vetlesen

Georg Unger Vetlesen was born in the seaport city of Oslo, the son of a well-known Norwegian surgeon. From his early years, he loved the sea, and at the age of eleven signed on as a crew member on a ship bound for Copenhagen...