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Join us in congratulating Edward D. Young! 
Edward D. Young, University of California, Los Angeles, will receive the 2024 J. Lawrence Smith Medal.
Young has deepened our understanding of the history of the solar system and its place in the galaxy through his extensive contributions to both experimental and theoretical meteoritics and solar system research.
His broad and interdisciplinary work ranges from atmospheric chemistry to geochemistry and from meteoritics to astronomy to better understand the formation of the Earth-Moon system, terrestrial planets, white dwarfs, asteroids, and exoplanets. Young’s investigations have elucidated our understanding of oxygen isotopes in meteorites, evaporation and condensation in meteoritic materials, the origin of short-lived radionuclides in the solar nebula, and models for aqueous alteration processes in meteorite parent bodies.
The J. Lawrence Smith Medal is awarded every three years for recent original and meritorious investigations of meteoric bodies. The award includes a $50,000 prize. The award was established as a gift from Sarah Julia Smith in memory of her husband and has been presented since 1888.
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Congratulations Edward D. Young of University of California, Los Angeles, winner of the 2024 National Academy of Sciences’ J. Lawrence Smith Medal for his contributions to cosmochemistry and meteor science! The Smith Medal is awarded every three years for recent original and meritorious investigations of meteoric bodies. You can watch Young receive the prize at the 161st NAS Annual Meeting on April 28.
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Congratulations Edward D. Young of @UCLA, winner of the 2024 @theNASciences J. Lawrence Smith Medal for his contributions to cosmochemistry and meteor science! You can watch him receive the prize at the 161st NAS Annual Meeting! #NASaward #academia #cosmochemistry
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