Presentation of the Roebling Medal for 2003 of the Mineralogical Society of America to Charles T. Prewitt

摘要

It is an honor and a pleasure to introduce Charles T. Prewitt as recipient of the Mineralogical Scoeity of America's highest honor, the Roebling Medal. Mineralogist, crystallographer, solid state chemist, organizer, leader, mentor, educator, colleague, friend - he excels in both professional and human attributes. Most of you know Charlie. Those few who do not know him know the Shannon and Prewitt tables of radii. But do you know that those were created not by university professors but by industrial scientists? Charlie Prewitt's career has had several stages: Ph.D. at MIT, years in the DuPoont Central Research Laboratory in Delaware, followe by roughly a decade at the then new university at Stony Brook, then another decade as Director of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, new private citizen, crystallographer, mineralogist, solid state chemistry in Arizona. The hallmarks of his career are science and service. These are inseparable.