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Acceptance of the Mineralogical Society of America Roebling Medal for 2007

School of Earth Sciences and Photon Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-2115, U.S.A.

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Thank you, Jerry and Mike, for your generous remarks and for nominating me for this prestigious award. I also wish to thank the 2007 Roebling Medal Committee for selecting me. Jerry and Mike, I am happy to count you among my close friends, both personal and professional. I also want to thank you for organizing the incredible symposium in my honor yesterday (October 29, 2007). The 31 talks presented an exciting retrospective and prospective of many areas of the mineral sciences and made a remarkably positive statement about the health of this field in its broadest definition. What a stroke of luck it was for me to choose to attend Penn State for graduate study in 1965 rather than go to graduate school in inorganic chemistry at the University of North Carolina with Jim Collman, who is now a colleague of mine at Stanford. I also made the correct decision to accompany you, Jerry, from Penn State to Virginia Tech in 1966. I have fond memories of the two of us discussing linear algebra and matrix theory at your home in State College, Pennsylvania, walking to get a milkshake at the local drugstore or a salad at The Greeks in Blacksburg, Virginia, laughing our heads off at the 1967 George C. Scott film The Flim-Flam Man at the only movie theater in Blacksburg at that time, and taking your graduate classes, which were models of clarity and the best classes I ever had. Mike, I remember meeting you for the first time when you came to visit me in the summer of 1976 and we collaborated on the high-temperature crystal structure and thermal expansion of cordierite, and the way you responded to the nickname "Rookie" from my more senior graduate students at Stanford when you joined my research group for . . . [Full Text of this Article]