Acceptance of the Dana Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America for 2016

First I want to thank David Mainprice for this citation, the colleagues who supported this nomination, and the Dana medal committee for honoring me. I also would like to express my appreciation to the Mineralogical Society of America for being an emblem for our discipline on an international standpoint. An award like this medal recognizes much more than the work of one person. It highlights the vitality of a scientific field at a given time. Science is not a smooth, continuous process. It occurs by …