The Paul Ramdohr Award was presented to three early-career scientists in 2002:
- Katja Emmerich (Hannover) for her presentation “Varieties of Smectite: Transformation of a Cis-Vacant into a Trans-Vacant Montmorillonite,” delivered at the 2002 DMG Annual Meeting in Hamburg.
- Thorsten Kleine (Münster) for his presentation “¹⁸²Hf–¹⁸²W and the Early Differentiation of Planetary Bodies,” delivered at the 2002 DMG Annual Meeting in Hamburg.
- Astrid Besmehn (Mainz) for her presentation “Heterogeneous and Homogeneous Distribution of Radiogenic Calcium-44 in Silicon Carbide X Grains,” delivered at the 2002 DMG Annual Meeting in Hamburg.
