The Conrad Schlumberger Award is an award

Award

An award is something given to a person or a group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field; a certificate of excellence. Awards are often signifiedby trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins, or ribbons...

 given to one of the members of European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers is a multi-disciplinary professional association for geoscientists and engineers. It was founded in 1951 and has a worldwide membership...

. The award is given each year to one that has made an outstanding contribution over a period of time to the scientific and technical advancement of the geosciences, particularly geophysics

Geophysics

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...

. The award is made annually by the EAGE

European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers is a multi-disciplinary professional association for geoscientists and engineers. It was founded in 1951 and has a worldwide membership...

 Board.

History

The Conrad Schlumberger Award award was created in 1955, as a recognition of Conrad Schlumberger's outstanding contribution to exploration geophysics, by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers is a multi-disciplinary professional association for geoscientists and engineers. It was founded in 1951 and has a worldwide membership...

 (then named the The European Association of Exploration Geophysicists.)

List of Recipients

Some of the notable recipients includes Nigel Anstey

Nigel Anstey

Nigel Allister Anstey, British geophysicist, has made major contributions to seismic exploration, which are the foundations for many of the techniques used in today’s oil and gas exploration. Anstey’s contributions impact every major area of seismic exploration -– from seismic acquisition to...

, Les Hatton

Les Hatton

Les Hatton is a British-born computer scientist and mathematician most notable for his work in failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems....

 and Michael Schoenberg

Michael Schoenberg

Michael Schoenberg was a theoretical geophysicist noted for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of anisotropy in the real earth and its application to the determination of texture, fracture porosity, and flow properties of reservoir rocks.-Career:Schoenberg received a Ph.D...

, and under follow the full list:

• 2011 Sergey Fomel
• 2010 Lasse Amundsen
• 2009 Gerhard Pratt
• 2008 Clive McCann
• 2007 Colin Macbeth
• 2006 Petar Stavrev
• 2005 Horst Rüter
• 2004 Eric de Bazelaire
• 2003 Tariq Alkhalifah
• 2002 M. Tygel
• 2001 * R. Marschall
• As from June 2001, all award titles will refer to the year in which they are presented to the winners, and no longer to the year in which the winning poster/paper was presented.
• 1999 P. Weidelt
• 1998 V. Cerveny
• 1997 J.T. Fokkema
• 1996 Michael Schoenberg
  Michael Schoenberg
  Michael Schoenberg was a theoretical geophysicist noted for his fundamental contributions to the understanding of anisotropy in the real earth and its application to the determination of texture, fracture porosity, and flow properties of reservoir rocks.-Career:Schoenberg received a Ph.D...
  
  
• 1995 P. Lailly
• 1994 P. Newman
• 1993 B. Ursin
• 1992 L. Dresen
• 1991 Ö. Yilmaz
• 1990 F. Rocca
• 1989 Albert Tarantola
  Albert Tarantola
  Albert Tarantola was a Spanish-born physicist , of the University of Paris , and author of the book probabilistic formulation of inverse problems...
  
  
• 1988 Ken Larner
• 1987 Les Hatton
  Les Hatton
  Les Hatton is a British-born computer scientist and mathematician most notable for his work in failures and vulnerabilities in software controlled systems....
  
  
• 1986 S. Crampin
• 1985 S.M. DEREGOWSKI
• 1984 K. Helbig
• 1983 J. Sattlegger
• 1982 A. Ziolkowski
• 1981 W.E. Lerwill
• 1980 A.J. Berkhout
• 1979 Th. Krey
• 1978 None
• 1977 P. Hubral
• 1976 J.G. Hagedoorn
• 1975 M.M. Backus and R.L. Chen
• 1974 N. de Voogd
• 1973 R.E. White
• 1972 P. Bois
• 1971 P.N.S. O'Brien
• 1970 H. Naudy
• 1969 S. Treitel and E. Robinson
• 1968 H. Linsser
• 1967 R. Garotta and D. Michon
• 1966 J. D'Hoeraene
• 1965 O. Koefoed
• 1964 Nigel Anstey
  Nigel Anstey
  Nigel Allister Anstey, British geophysicist, has made major contributions to seismic exploration, which are the foundations for many of the techniques used in today’s oil and gas exploration. Anstey’s contributions impact every major area of seismic exploration -– from seismic acquisition to...
  
  
• 1963 G. Grau
• 1962 None
• 1961 G. Kunetz
• 1960 R. Bortfeld
• 1959 L. Alfano
• 1958 U. Colombo
• 1957 O. Kappelmeyer
• 1956 None
• 1955 H. Flathe

External links

• The Conrad Schlumberger Award homepage at EAGE
• All awards by EAGE
• EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) homepage