- Wollaston Medal
The Wollaston Medal is a
scientific award forgeology , the highest award granted by theGeological Society of London .The medal is named after
William Hyde Wollaston , and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made ofpalladium , a metal discovered by Wollaston.Laureates
1831 - 1849
* 1831 William Smith
* 1835Gideon Mantell
* 1836Louis Agassiz
* 1837Proby Thomas Cautley
* 1837Hugh Falconer
* 1838Richard Owen
* 1839Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
* 1840Andre Hubert Dumont
* 1841Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
* 1842Leopold von Buch
* 1843Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont
* 1843Pierre Armand Dufrenoy
* 1844William Conybeare
* 1845 John Phillips
* 1846William Lonsdale
* 1847Ami Boué
* 1848William Buckland
* 1849Joseph Prestwich 1850 - 1899
* 1850
William Hopkins
* 1851Adam Sedgwick
* 1852William Henry Fitton
* 1853Adolphe d'Archaic
* 1853Edouard de Verneuil
* 1854Richard John Griffith
* 1855Henry De la Beche
* 1856William Edmond Logan
* 1857Joachim Barrande
* 1858Hermann von Meyer
* 1859Charles Darwin
* 1860Searles Valentine Wood
* 1861Heinrich Georg Bronn
* 1862Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen
* 1863Gustav Bischof
* 1864Roderick Murchison
* 1865 Thomas Davidson
* 1866Charles Lyell
* 1867George Poulett Scrope
* 1868Carl Friedrich Naumann
* 1869Henry Clifton Sorby
* 1870Gerard Paul Deshayes
* 1871Andrew Ramsay
* 1872James Dwight Dana
* 1873Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton
* 1874Oswald Heer
* 1875Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
* 1876Thomas Henry Huxley
* 1877Robert Mallet
* 1878 Thomas Wright
* 1879Bernhard Studer
* 1880 Auguste Daubrée
* 1881Peter Martin Duncan
* 1882Franz Ritter von Hauer
* 1883William Thomas Blanford
* 1884Albert Jean Gaudry
* 1885George Busk
* 1886Alfred Des Cloizeaux
* 1887John Whitaker Hulke
* 1888Henry Benedict Medlicott
* 1889Thomas George Bonney
* 1890William Crawford Williamson
* 1891John Wesley Judd
* 1892Ferdinand von Richthofen
* 1893Nevil Story Maskelyne
* 1894Karl Alfred von Zittel
* 1895Archibald Geikie
* 1896Eduard Suess
* 1897Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
* 1898Ferdinand Zirkel
* 1899Charles Lapworth 1900 - 1949
* 1900
Grove Karl Gilbert
* 1901Charles Barrois
* 1902Friedrich Schmidt
* 1903Heinrich Rosenbusch
* 1904Albert Heim
* 1905Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
* 1906 Henry Woodward
* 1907William Johnson Sollas
* 1908Paul Heinrich von Groth
* 1909Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
* 1910William Berryman Scott
* 1911Waldemar Christopher Brøgger
* 1912Lazarus Fletcher
* 1913Osmond Fisher
* 1914John Edward Marr
* 1915Edgeworth David
* 1916Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky
* 1917 (Francois Antoine) Alfred Lacroix
* 1918Charles Doolittle Walcott
* 1919Aubrey Strahan
* 1920Gerard Jacob De Geer
* 1921Benjamin Neeve Peach
* 1921John Horne
* 1922 Alfred Harker
* 1923William Whitaker
* 1924Arthur Smith Woodward
* 1925George William Lamplugh
* 1926Henry Fairfield Osborn
* 1927William Whitehead Watts
* 1928Dukinfield Henry Scott
* 1929Friedrich Johann Karl Becke
* 1930Albert Charles Seward
* 1931Arthur William Rogers
* 1932Johan Herman Lie Vogt
* 1933Marcellin Boule
* 1934Henry Alexander Miers
* 1935John Smith Flett
* 1936Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff
* 1937Waldemar Lindgren
* 1938Maurice Lugeon
* 1939Frank Dawson Adams
* 1940 Henry Woods
* 1941Arthur Louis Day
* 1942Reginald Aldworth Daly
* 1943Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman
* 1944Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
* 1945Owen Thomas Jones
* 1946Emanuel de Margerie
* 1947Joseph Burr Tyrrell
* 1948Edward Battersby Bailey
* 1949Robert Broom 1950 - 1999
* 1950
Norman Levi Bowen
* 1951Olaf Holtedahl
* 1952Herbert Harold Read
* 1953Erik Stensiö
* 1954Leonard Johnston Wills
* 1955Arthur Elijah Trueman
* 1956Arthur Holmes
* 1957Paul Fourmarier
* 1958Pentti Eelis Eskola
* 1959Pierre Pruvost
* 1960Cecil Edgar Tilley
* 1961Roman Kozlowski
* 1962Leonard Hawkes
* 1963Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
* 1964Harold Jeffreys
* 1965D. M. S. Watson
* 1966Francis Parker Shepard
* 1967Edward Crisp Bullard
* 1968Raymond Cecil Moore
* 1969William Maurice Ewing
* 1970Philip Henry Kuenen
* 1971Ralph Alger Bagnold
* 1972Hans Ramberg
* 1973Alfred Sherwood Romer
* 1974Francis John Pettijohn
* 1975Hollis Dow Hedberg
* 1976Kingsley Charles Dunham
* 1977 Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
* 1978John Tuzo Wilson
* 1979Hatton Schuyler Yoder
* 1980Augusto Gansser
* 1981Robert Minard Garrels
* 1982Peter John Wyllie
* 1983 Dan Peter McKenzie
* 1984Kenneth J. Hsu
* 1985Gerald Joseph Wasserburg
* 1986John Graham Ramsay
* 1987 Claude Jean Allègre
* 1988Alfred Ringwood
* 1989 Drummond Hoyle Matthews
* 1990Wallace S. Broecker
* 1991Xavier Le Pichon
* 1992 Martin Harold Phillips Bott
* 1993 Samuel Epstein
* 1994William Jason Morgan
* 1995George Patrick Leonard Walker
* 1996Nicholas John Shackleton
* 1997Douglas James Shearman
* 1998Karl Karekin Turekian
* 1999John Frederick Dewey 2000
* 2000
William Sefton Fyfe
* 2001Harry Blackmore Whittington
* 2002Rudolf Trumpy
* 2003Ikuo Kushiro
* 2004Geoffrey Eglinton
* 2005Ted Irving -Jose Luis Pages Valcarlos
* 2006James Lovelock
* 2007Andrew Knoll ee also
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*List of medals
*Prizes named after people
*Geology of the United Kingdom External links
* [http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/null/lang/en/page750.html Geological Society medal winners]
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