- Roebling Medal
The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the
Mineralogical Society of America for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy. [http://www.minsocam.org/msa/Awards/Roebling.html] The award is named forColonel Washington A. Roebling (1837-1926) who was an engineer, bridge builder, mineral collector, and significant friend of theMineralogical Society of America .Roebling Medal Recipients
*1937-Charles Palache
*1938-Waldemar T. Schaller
*1940-Leonard James Spencer
*1941-Esper S. Larsen Jr.
*1945-Edward H. Kraus
*1946-Clarence S. Ross
*1947-Paul Niggli
*1948-William Lawrence Bragg
*1949-Herbert E. Merwin
*1950-Norman L. Bowen
*1952-Frederick E. Wright
*1953-William F. Foshag
*1954-Cecil Edgar Tilley
*1955-Alexander N. Winchell
*1956-Arthur F. Buddington
*1957-Walter F. Hunt
*1958-Martin J. Buerger
*1959-Felix Machatschki
*1960-Tom F. W. Barth
*1961-Paul Ramdohr
*1962-John W. Gruner
*1963-John Frank Schairer
*1964-Clifford Frondel
*1965-Adolf Pabst
*1966-Max H. Hey
*1967-Linus Pauling
*1968-Tei-ichi Ito
*1969-Fritz Laves
*1970-George W. Brindley
*1971-J. D. H. Donnay
*1972-Elburt F. Osborn
*1973-George Tunell
*1974-Ralph E. Grim
*1975-Michael Fleischer
*1975-O. Frank Tuttle
*1976-Carl W. Correns
*1977-Raimond Castaing
*1978-James B. Thompson
*1979-W. H. Taylor
*1980-Dmitrii S. Korzhinskii
*1981-Robert M. Garrels
*1982-Joseph V. Smith
*1983-Hans P. Eugster
*1984-Paul B. Barton Jr.
*1985-Francis J. Turner
*1986-Edwin Roedder
*1987-Gerald V. Gibbs
*1988-Julian R. Goldsmith
*1989-Helen D. Megaw
*1990-Sturges W. Bailey
*1991-E-An Zen
*1992-Hatten S. Yoder Jr.
*1993-Brian Harold Mason
*1994-William A. Bassett
*1995-William S. Fyfe
*1996-Donald H. Lindsley
*1997-Ian Carmichael
*1998-C. Wayne Burnham
*1999-Ikuo Kushiro
*2000-Robert C. Reynolds Jr.
*2001-Peter J. Wyllie
*2002-Werner F. Schreyer
*2003-Charles T. Prewitt
*2004-Francis R. Boyd
*2005-Ho-kwang Mao
*2006-W. Gary Ernst
*2007-Gordon E. Brown Jr.
*2008-Bernard Evans
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