Lyell Medal
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The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London
, equal in status to the Murchison Medal
, awarded on the basis of research to an Earth Scientist of exceptional quality. It is named after Charles Lyell
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Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"...
, equal in status to the Murchison Medal
Murchison Medal
An award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871. One of the closing public acts of Murchison’s life was the founding of a chair of geology and mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh. Under his will there was established the Murchison Medal and geological fund to be awarded annually...
, awarded on the basis of research to an Earth Scientist of exceptional quality. It is named after Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, Kt FRS was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by slow-moving forces still in operation...
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19th century
| width="50%" align="" valign="" style="border:0"|- 1876 John MorrisJohn Morris (geologist)John Morris was an English geologist.Morris was professor of geology at University College, London from 1854 to 1877. He was awarded the Lyell Medal in 1876.-External links:*...
- 1877 James HectorJames HectorSir James Hector was a Scottish geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist...
- 1878 George BuskGeorge BuskGeorge Busk RN FRS was a British Naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.-Biography:Busk was born in St Petersburg, the son of the merchant Robert Busk and grandson of Sir Wadsworth Busk...
- 1879 Edmond HebertEdmond HébertEdmond Hébert , French geologist, was born at Villefargau, Yonne.He was educated at the College de Meaux, Auxerre, and at the École Normale in Paris. In 1836 he became professor at Meaux, in 1838 demonstrator in chemistry and physics at the École Normale, and in 1841 sub-director of studies at that...
- 1880 John EvansJohn Evans (archaeologist)Sir John Evans, KCB, FRS was an English archaeologist and geologist.-Biography:John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire...
- 1881 John William DawsonJohn William DawsonSir John William Dawson, CMG, FRS, FRSC , was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.- Life and work :...
- 1882 John Lycett
- 1883 William Benjamin CarpenterWilliam Benjamin CarpenterWilliam Benjamin Carpenter MD CB FRS was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.-Life:...
- 1884 Joseph LeidyJoseph LeidyJoseph Leidy was an American paleontologist.Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore College. His book Extinct Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska contained many species not previously described and many previously...
- 1885 Harry Govier Seeley
- 1886 William PengellyWilliam PengellyWilliam Pengelly, FRS FGS was a British geologist and early archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect....
- 1887 Samuel AllportSamuel AllportSamuel Allport was an English petrologist. He was born in Birmingham and educated in that city.Although occupied in business during the greater portion of his life, his leisure was given to geological studies, and when residing for a short period in Bahia, South America, he made observations on...
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- 1888 Henry Alleyne NicholsonHenry Alleyne NicholsonHenry Alleyne Nicholson was a British palaeontologist and zoologist.The son of Dr. John Nicholson, a biblical scholar, was born at Penrith, Cumbria on 11 September 1844. He was educated at Appleby Grammar School and at the universities of Göttingen and Edinburgh...
- 1889 William Boyd DawkinsWilliam Boyd DawkinsProfessor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS, KBE was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man...
- 1890 Thomas Rupert JonesThomas Rupert JonesThomas Rupert Jones was an English geologist and palaeontologist born in London.He was born in Cheapside, London, the son of John Jones, silk merchant, and his wife Rhoda Jones of Coventry. While at a private school at Ilminster, his attention was attracted to geology by the fossils that are so...
- 1891 Thomas McKenny HughesThomas McKenny HughesThomas McKenny Hughes was a Welsh geologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.-Private life:...
- 1892 George Highfield Morton
- 1893 Edwin Tulley NewtonEdwin Tulley NewtonEdwin Tulley Newton was a British paleontologist. He originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865 was appointed as his assistant. In 1882 he became paleontologist to the "Geologic Survey", a position he retained until 1905...
- 1894 John MilneJohn MilneFor other uses, see John Milne .John Milne was the British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.-Biography:...
- 1895 John Frederick Blake
- 1896 Arthur Smith WoodwardArthur Smith WoodwardSir Arthur Smith Woodward was an English palaeontologist.-Biography:Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated there and at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of...
- 1897 George Jennings Hinde
- 1898 Wilhelm Waagen
- 1899 Charles Alexander McMahon
- 1900 John Edward MarrJohn Edward MarrJohn Edward Marr FGS FRS was a British geologist. After studying at Lancaster Royal Grammar School he matriculated to St John's College, Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours in 1878...
20th century
| width="33%" align="" valign="" style="border:0"|- 1901 Ramsay Heatley TraquairRamsay Heatley TraquairRamsay Heatley Traquair was a Scottish naturalist who became a leading expert on fossil fish.Born in Rhynd, Perthshire, he trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatomy...
- 1902 Antonin FritschAntonin FritschAntonin Fritsch was a Czech paleontologist, biologist and geologist, living during the Austria–Hungary era. Professor at the Charles University and later became director of the National Museum in Prague...
- 1902 Richard LydekkerRichard LydekkerRichard Lydekker was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.-Biography:...
- 1903 Frederick William Rudler
- 1904 Alfred Gabriel NathorstAlfred Gabriel NathorstAlfred Gabriel Nathorst was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist and palaeobotanist. Nathorst was born in Väderbrunn outside Nyköping and died in Stockholm.-Biography:He was born on November 7, 1850....
- 1905 Hans ReuschHans Henrik ReuschHans Henrik Reusch , Norwegian geologist, was born at Bergen. He was educated at Christiania, Leipzig and Heidelberg, and graduated Ph.D. at Christiania in 1883....
- 1906 Frank Dawson AdamsFrank Dawson AdamsFrank Dawson Adams was a Canadian geologist.He was born into a prosperous, middle-class family in Montreal, Quebec. At that time modern Canada did not exist : "Canada" consisted of Canada West and Canada East...
- 1907 (John) Joseph Frederick WhiteavesJoseph Frederick WhiteavesJoseph Frederick Whiteaves , was a British palaeontologist.Born in Oxford, Whiteaves was educated at private schools, and afterwards worked under John Phillips at Oxford ; he was led to study the Oolitic rocks, and added largely to our knowledge of the fossils of the Great Oolite series, Cornbrash...
- 1908 Richard Dixon OldhamRichard Dixon OldhamRichard Dixon Oldham FRS was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the Earth has a central core.-Life:Born on 31 July 1858 to Thomas Oldham, a Fellow of the Royal...
- 1909 Percy Fry KendallPercy Fry KendallPercy Fry Kendall FRS , was an English geologist. A student of Thomas Henry Huxley, he was Professor of Geology at the University of Leeds from 1904 to 1922. In 1909 he was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society of London, mainly for his work on the glacial geology of...
- 1910 Arthur Vaughan
- 1911 Francis Arthur BatherFrancis Arthur BatherFrancis Arthur Bather FRS was a British palaeontologist, geologist and malacologist.Bather joined the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1887...
- 1911 Arthur Walton Rowe
- 1912 Philip Lake
- 1913 Sydney Savory Buckman
- 1914 Charles Stewart Middlemiss
- 1915 Edmund Johnston GarwoodEdmund Johnston GarwoodEdmund Johnston Garwood was a British geologist and President of the Geological Society of London from 1930 to 1932....
- 1916 Charles William AndrewsCharles William AndrewsCharles William Andrews F.R.S., was a British palaeontologist whose career as a vertebrate paleontologist, both as a curator and in the field, was spent in the services of the British Museum, Department of Geology.-Biography:...
- 1917 Wheelton Hind
- 1918 Henry Woods
- 1919 William Fraser Hume
- 1920 Edward Greenly
- 1921 Emmanuel de MargerieEmmanuel de MargerieEmmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS was a French geographer after whom the Margerie Glacier was named, which he visited in 1913. He was awarded the Cullum Geographical Medal of the American Geographical Society in 1919. In 1923 de Margerie was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson...
- 1922 Charles Davison
- 1923 Gustave Frederic Dollfus
- 1924 William Wickham KingWilliam Wickham KingWilliam Wickham King , usually known as Wickham King was a distinguished amateur geologist.He was the younger son of William Henry King and followed him as a solicitor in Stourbridge and magistrates clerk for the Stourbridge and Kingswinford Petty Sessional Divisions.As a young man, he rowed with...
- 1925 John Frederick Norman GreenJohn Frederick Norman GreenJohn Frederick Norman Green , or J.F.N.Green, was a geologist who won the prestigious Lyell Medal in 1925 and served as President of the Geological Society between 1934 and 1936.-Published works:...
- 1926 Owen Thomas JonesOwen Thomas JonesOwen Thomas Jones, FRS FGS was a Welsh geologist.He was born in Beulah, near Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire, the only son of David Jones and Margaret Thomas. He attended the local village school in Trewen before going to Pencader Grammar School in 1893. In 1896 he went up to University College,...
- 1927 Albert Ernest KitsonAlbert Ernest KitsonSir Albert Ernest Kitson KBE, CMG was a British/Australian geologist and naturalist, winner of the Lyell Medal in 1927.-Early life:...
- 1928 Sidney Hugh Reynolds
- 1928 William Dickson LangWilliam Dickson LangWilliam Dickson Lang was Keeper of the Department of Geology at the British Museum from 1928 until 1938.He was born at Kurnal, India the second son of Edward Tickle Lang and Hebe, the daughter of John Venn Prior and moved to England at the age of one when the family returned...
- 1929 Arthur Morley Davies
- 1930 Frederick ChapmanFrederick ChapmanFrederick Chapman was the inaugural Australian Commonwealth Palaeontologist.-Early life:Chapman was born in Camden Town, London, England and studied at Royal College of Science, London where he was initially an assistant to John Wesley Judd...
- 1930 Herbert Brantwood Maufe
- 1931 Ernest Clayton AndrewsErnest Clayton AndrewsErnest Clayton Andrews was an Australian geologist and botanist.Andrews was born in Balmain, New South Wales, second chid of Fearleigh Leonard Montague, artist, and Alice Maud, née Smith. At three years of age, he and his sister were unofficially adopted by John Andrews and his wife Mary Ann, née...
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- 1932 Henry Dewey
- 1932 Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon
- 1933 James Ernest Richey
- 1934 Walter HowchinWalter HowchinWalter Howchin was a geologist who lectured in mineralogy and palaeontology at the former Adelaide School of Mines and Adelaide University; he won the Clarke Medal in 1907.-Early life:...
- 1934 Frank Lorimer Kitchin
- 1935 D. M. S. Watson
- 1936 Eleanor Mary Reid
- 1936 Leonard Johnston WillsLeonard Johnston WillsProfessor Leonard Johnston Wills – known as ‘Jack’ to friends and family – was one of the leading British geologists of his generation...
- 1937 Linsdall Richardson
- 1938 John Pringle
- 1939 William Noel BensonWilliam Noel BensonWilliam Noel Benson FRS FRGS was a research geologist and academic. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporarily at the University of Adelaide before returning to Sydney as a demonstrator...
- 1940 Herbert Leader HawkinsHerbert Leader HawkinsHerbert Leader Hawkins FRS was a British geologist.-References:...
- 1941 Ernest Sheppard Pinfold
- 1942 William Sawney Bisat
- 1943 Darashaw Nosherwan WadiaDarashaw Nosherwan WadiaDarashaw Nosherwan Wadia FRS was a geologist for the Geological Survey of India. He was born at Surat in Gujarat...
- 1944 Norman Ross Junner
- 1945 Leonard Frank SpathLeonard Frank SpathLeonard Frank Spath was a British paleomalacologist and an ammonitologist, a specialist of ammonites.He gained a B.Sc in geology at Birkbeck College in 1912 and obtained employment at the British Museum as an assistant curator in the geology department...
- 1946 Robert Heron Rastall
- 1947 Stanley Smith
- 1948 Arthur Hubert Cox
- 1949 William Joscelyn ArkellWilliam Joscelyn ArkellWilliam Joscelyn Arkell M.A.; D.Phil.; D.Sc.; FGS.; FRS. was a British geologist and paleontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century.-Childhood:...
- 1950 Samuel James Shand
- 1951 William Dixon West
- 1952 Alfred Kingsley Wells
- 1953 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
- 1954 John Baird SimpsonJohn Baird SimpsonJohn Baird Simpson , was a Scottish geologist.Simpson was born at Glenferness, Ardclach, Nairnshire, Scotland. After schooling at Nairn Academy, he went to the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated with a BSc in Agriculture, in 1914. He joined the Royal Engineers that same year, and was then...
- 1955 Wilfred Norman Edwards
- 1956 Leslie Reginald CoxLeslie Reginald CoxLeslie Reginald Cox was an eminent palaeontologist and malacologist.Cox was born to parents who worked as government servant in the Post Office telephone engineers' department. When he was just a few years old Cox moved to Harringay, where he at six he started attendance at the South Harringay...
- 1957 Stephen Henry Straw
- 1958 Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
- 1959 David WilliamsDavid Williams-Musicians:* David Williams , Aboriginal musician and artist* David Williams , Welsh bassist* David Williams , Welsh guitarist and bassist in Son of Dork...
- 1960 Doris Livesey Reynolds
- 1961 John Vernon Harrison
- 1962 Lawrence Rickard Wager
- 1963 Thomas Neville GeorgeThomas Neville GeorgeThomas Neville George FRS was a British geologist.-References:...
- 1964 Dorothy HillDorothy HillDorothy Hill, AC, CBE, FAA, FRS . She was an Australian geologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.-Education:...
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- 1965 Charles Findlay Davidson
- 1966 Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff
- 1967 William Quarrier Kennedy
- 1968 Maurice Black
- 1969 Francis John TurnerFrancis John TurnerFrancis John Turner was a New Zealand geologist. He received his BSc and MSc from the Auckland University College...
- 1970 Frederick Henry Stewart
- 1971 Percival AllenPercival AllenPercival Allen FRS was a British geologist.In Mar, 1973 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His applicaton citation read: "Distinguished for his investigations of Lower Cretaceous sedimentation in north-western Europe...
- 1972 Alec Westley Skempton
- 1973 Janet Vida WatsonJanet Vida WatsonProfessor Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS was a British geologist. She was the first woman to become president of the Geological Society of London.-Early life:...
- 1974 Martin Fritz GlaessnerMartin GlaessnerMartin Fritz Glaessner AM was a geologist and palaeontologist. Born and educated in Austro-Hungarian Empire, he spent the majority of his life in working for oil companies in Russia, and studying the geology of the South Pacific in Australia...
- 1975 Dorothy Helen Rayner
- 1976 Walter Brian Harland
- 1977 Bernard Elgey LeakeBernard Elgey LeakeBernard Elgey Leake is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Glasgow, wasLeverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Cardiff University 2000-2002 and has been an Honorary ResearchFellow at Cardiff University since 1997....
- 1978 Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst
- 1979 Derek Victor Ager
- 1980 John Robert Lawrence Allen
- 1981 William Stuart McKerrow
- 1982 George Patrick Leonard WalkerGeorge Patrick Leonard WalkerGeorge Patrick Leonard Walker FRS was a British geologist who specialized in mineralogy and volcanology.- Life :He worked on the volcanic rocks of Iceland, and on Mount Etna.He taught at Imperial College....
- 1983 John Frederick DeweyJohn Frederick DeweyJohn Frederick Dewey is a British structural geologist and a strong proponent of the theory of plate tectonics, building upon the early work undertaken in the 1960s and 1970s...
- 1984 Douglas James Sheannan
- 1985 John Douglas Hudson
- 1986 Harry Blackmore Whittington
- 1987 Nicholas John Shackleton
- 1988 Richard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert West FRS is a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist.He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I...
- 1989 John Michael "Jake" HancockJake HancockProfessor John Michael Hancock , known throughout the geological community as Jake, will be fondly remembered as a student of the Cretaceous, of the sedimentary and mineralogical character of the Chalk, as a world stratigrapher, as a bon viveur and an amiable, jovial, moustachioed...
- 1990 Anthony HallamAnthony HallamProfessor Anthony Hallam , aka Tony Hallam, is a British geologist, palaeontologist and writer. His research interests concentrate on the Jurassic Period, with particular reference to stratigraphy, sea level changes and palaeontology...
- 1991 John ImbrieJohn ImbrieJohn Imbrie is an American paleoceanographer best known for his work on the theory of ice ages.After serving with the 10th Mountain Division in Italy during World War II, Imbrie earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University. He then went on to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1951...
- 1992 Alfred G Fischer
- 1993 Michael Robert Leeder
- 1994 William Gilbert ChalonerWilliam Gilbert ChalonerProfessor William Gilbert Chaloner FRS is a distinguished British paleobotanist. He is Emeritus Professor of Botany in the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Professor in Earth Sciences at University College, London.-Life:Chaloner was born in Chelsea,...
- 1995 Robert Keith O'NionsKeith O'NionsSir Robert Keith O'Nions , is a British scientist and current Rector of the Imperial College London. He is the former Director General of the Research Councils as well as Professor of the Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and was head of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of...
- 1996 Richard Allen ForteyRichard ForteyRichard A. Fortey FRS is a British palaeontologist and writer.-Career:Richard Fortey studied geology at the University of Cambridge and had a long career as a palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London. Prof. Fortey’s research interests include, above all, trilobites...
- 1997 Richard Barrie Rickards
- 1998 Simon Conway MorrisSimon Conway MorrisSimon Conway Morris FRS is an English paleontologist made known by his detailed and careful study of the Burgess Shale fossils, an exploit celebrated in Wonderful Life by Stephen Jay Gould...
- 1999 Ernest Henry Rutter
- 2000 Derek Ernest Gilmor BriggsDerek BriggsDerek Ernest Gilmor Briggs is an Irish paleontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University. Briggs is one of three paleontologists who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale.-Professional achievements:...
21st century
- 2001 Paul TapponnierPaul TapponnierPaul Tapponnier was born on January 6, 1947 in Annecy, France. He became an engineer from the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Paris in 1970. He started his career at the Universite du Languedoc, in Montpellier, and trained as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of...
- 2002 Andrew Smith
- 2003 Harry Elderfield
- 2004 Dianne EdwardsDianne EdwardsDianne Edwards CBE ScD FRSE FLSW FRS is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.-Career:...
- 2005 Michael James Benton
- 2006 Geoffrey BoultonGeoffrey BoultonGeoffrey Stewart Boulton OBE, FRS, FRSE is a British geoscientist, and Regius Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh.He was awarded the 2006 Lyell Medal, by the Geological Society.He was awarded the 2011 James Croll Medal.-Life:...
- 2007 Phillip Allen
- 2008 Alan Gilbert Smith
- 2009 Nick McCaveNick McCaveIan Nicholas McCave, was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences and a fellow of St John's College from 1985 to 2008. His current research topic is "The Sediment Record of the Deep-Sea Circulation" in the area of "Environmental change and...
- 2010 William RuddimanWilliam RuddimanWilliam F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Ruddiman earned an undergraduate degree in geology in 1964 at Williams College, and a Ph.D. in marine geology from Columbia University in 1969. Ruddiman worked at the US Naval Oceanographic Office...