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==G. J. Lapeyre award==

In 1973 the vault that held Tantalus was being enlarged, and during a facility picnic a rainstorm hit and caused the vault to start to flood. Jerry Lapeyre of [[Montana State University]] used the lab's tractor to build earthworks to divert the water. His effeortsefforts led then-director Rowe to create the annual G. J. Lapeyre award to be awarded to “one who met and overcame the greatest obstacle in the punuitpursuit of their research”. The trophy has an octagonal base representing Tantalus, with a beer can from the lab picnic which preceded the flood, topped by a concrete “raindrop”.<ref name="Lapeyre">{{Cite journal

|last=Lapeyre |first=Gerald J.

|year=1994