Eagleson receives the Stockholm Water Prize

Abstract

Peter S. Eagleson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been awarded the 1997 Stockholm Water Prize. He received the prize from Sweden's King, Carl XVI Gustaf, at a ceremony in the Stockholm City Hall on August 14, 1997.Eagleson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, is recognized as a world leader in hydrology. In fact, it is nowadays impossible to think hydrology without his name coming to mind. He worked to establish the physical principles behind all hydrological processes and systematically integrated them, making it possible to better understand river basin response. His textbook, Dynamic Hydrology, was a catalyst in the redefinition of hydrology as a rigorous and quantitative science. In 1970, when it was published, this was a bold and different approach; it has taken some time, but hydrology is now accepted as a key element of the earth sciences.