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2000 Max Hey Medal

	Presentation by the President, Dr David Morgan, 4 January 2001

 
The Max Hey Medal is awarded for research of excellence carried out by a young worker within the fields of mineralogy, crystallography, petrology or geochemistry. In the year 2000 we had some very strong candidates and found it impossible to separate the cases of Ian Fitzsimons and Ray Kent, so the Medal is awarded to them jointly.

	Presentation to Dr Ian Fitzsimons

 
First, but only on alphabetical grounds, Dr Ian Fitzsimons, who is recognized for his on-going research of excellence in metamorphic and mantle petrology.

Ian, you graduated from Cambridge in 1987 with a first class honours degree, and then carried out your PhD at Oxford and Edinburgh on the metamorphic histories of granulites from Antarctica, which was to form the basis for much of your subsequent work. Following further spells at Edinburgh, Royal Holloway, and Edinburgh again, you moved to Australia first to Monash University and then to Curtin University, where you are currently lecturer.

Dr Ian Fitzsimons

Your petrological and isotopic research on high-grade pelites from the Prydz Bay region of Antarctica has not only resulted in an integrated model for the pressure-temperature-time evolution of the granulite metamorphism, but has also contributed greatly to an understanding of the styles and scales of partial melt formation and segregation in granulites in general. Your detailed work on garnet-forming reaction textures in calc-silicates has provided an excellent framework for evaluation of the pressure-temperature-fluid histories of such rocks and now forms one of the seminal ‘benchmark’ papers on this subject. Your investigations of the volatile budget associated with melting in granulites using secondary ion mass spectrometry and stepped-heating and ablation mass spectrometry have had a significant impact on our understanding of chemical processes in high-grade metamorphism.

You have also contributed greatly to the development and interpretation of ion microprobe or SIMS techniques for measuring C-isotope and N . . . [Full Text of this Article]