- Penrose Medal
The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by
R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. as the top prize awarded by theGeological Society of America to those who advance the study ofgeoscience .Award Winners
* 2007 Kevin Burke
* 2006Steve Kesler
* 2005Minze Stuiver
* 2004W. Gary Ernst
* 2003Peter R. Vail
* 2002Walter Alvarez
* 2001 Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
* 2000Robert L. Folk
* 1999M. Gordon Wolman
* 1998Jack E. Oliver
* 1997John D. Bredehoeft
* 1996John R. L. Allen
* 1995John C. Crowell
* 1994Luna B. Leopold
* 1993Alfred G. Fischer
* 1992John Frederick Dewey
* 1991William R. Dickinson
* 1990Norman D. Newell
* 1989Warren Bell Hamilton
* 1988Robert S. Dietz
* 1987Marland P. Billings
* 1986Laurence L. Sloss
* 1985Rudolf Trümpy
* 1984Donald E. White
* 1983G. Arthur Cooper
* 1982Aaron C. Waters
* 1981John Rodgers
* 1980Hollis D. Hedberg
* 1979J Harlen Bretz
* 1978Robert M. Garrels
* 1977Robert P. Sharp
* 1976Preston Cloud
* 1975Francis J. Pettijohn
* 1974William Maurice Ewing
* 1973M. King Hubbert
* 1972Wilmot H. Bradley
* 1971Marshall Kay
* 1970Ralph Alger Bagnold
* 1969 Francis Birch
* 1968J. Tuzo Wilson
* 1967Herbert Harold Read
* 1966 Harry H. Hess
* 1965Philip Burke King
* 1964Donnel Foster Hewett
* 1963William Walden Rubey
* 1962Alfred Sherwood Romer
* 1961Philip Henry Kuenen
* 1960Walter Hermann Bucher
* 1959Adolph Knopf
* 1958James Gilluly
* 1957Bruno Sander
* 1956Arthur Holmes
* 1955Maurice Gignoux
* 1954Arthur Francis Buddington
* 1953Esper S. Larsen, Jr.
* 1952George Gaylord Simpson
* 1951Pentti Eskola
* 1950Morley Evans Wilson
* 1949Wendell P. Woodring
* 1948Hans Cloos
* 1947Arthur Louis Day
* 1946T. Wayland Vaughan
* 1945Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
* 1944Bailey Willis
* 1943 No award given
* 1942Charles Kenneth Leith
* 1941Norman Levi Bowen
* 1940Nelson Horatio Darton
* 1939William Berryman Scott
* 1938Andrew Cowper Lawson
* 1937 No award given
* 1936Arthur Philemon Coleman
* 1935Reginald Aldworth Daly
* 1934Charles Schuchert
* 1933Waldemar Lindgren
* 1932Edward Oscar Ulrich
* 1931William Morris Davis
* 1930François Alfred Antoine Lacroix
* 1929 No award given
* 1928Jakob Johannes Sederholm
* 1927Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin ee also
References
* [http://www.geosociety.org/awards/aboutAwards.htm#penrose Geological Society of America - Awards and Medals - Penrose Medal] . URL accessed
December 6 ,2006 .
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