Maud Boyet
University of Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Maud Boyet has fundamentally and comprehensively interrogated the assumptions about making the Earth. This followed her discovery that the Earth is non-chondritic for the refractory, lithophile element system Sm-Nd for which the classic chondrite paradigm should best apply. Maud has long been an inspiring role model, not only for scientific excellence but also undemonstrative service to the geochemical community.