Murchison Award
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The Murchison Award was first given by the Royal Geographical Society
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...

 in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years.

Recipients

  • 1895 Eivind Astrup
  • 1898 Herbert Warrington Smyth
    Herbert Warrington Smyth
    Herbert Warington Smyth CMG, LLM, FGS, FRGS, was a British traveller, writer, naval officer and mining engineer who served the government of Siam and held several important posts in the Union of South Africa....

  • 1920 Maria Czaplicka
    Maria Czaplicka
    Maria Antonina Czaplicka , also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism...

  • 1942 Sidney William Wooldridge
    Sidney William Wooldridge
    Professor Sidney William Wooldridge CBE, FRS, FGS , geologist, geomorphologist and geographer, was a pioneer in the study of the geomorphology of south-east England and the first professor of geography at King's College London...

     and David Leslie Linton
    David Leslie Linton
    Professor David Leslie Linton , British geographer and geomorphologist, was professor of geography at Sheffield and Birmingham, best remembered for his work on the landscape development of south-east England with S.W.Wooldridge, and on the development of tors.-Early life and education:David Linton...

  • 1970 I R Bishop
  • 1971 Professor J W House
  • 1972 Professor Emeritus W Gordon East
  • 1973 Professor W B Fisher
  • 1974 Professor H H Lamb
    Hubert Lamb
    Hubert Horace Lamb was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.-Career:...

  • 1975 Professor Akin L Mabogunje
  • 1976 Professor Emeritus W G Hoskins CBE FBA
  • 1977 Mr Harold Fullard
  • 1978 Professor Kenneth Walton
  • 1979 Professor Eila Campbell
  • 1980 Mr Clive Jermy
  • 1981 Professor C Kidson
  • 1982 Dr R J Bennett
  • 1983 Professor Richard Lawton
  • 1984 Professor Stanley Gregory
  • 1985 Ron J. Johnston
    Ron J. Johnston
    Ronald John Johnston, OBE, AcSS, FBA is a British human geographer, noted for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography...

  • 1986 Mr David Bickmore
  • 1987 Professor Monica Cole
  • 1988 Dr. Roger Tomlinson
  • 1989 Professor Emeritus Vernon Forbes
  • 1990 Professor Jim Rose
  • 1991 Mr Peter Clark
  • 1992 Professor William Buttiker
  • 1993 Professor Paul Claval
  • 1994 Dr Andrew Warren
  • 1995 Professor Frank Oldfield
  • 1996 Professor Ronald A Dodgshon
  • 1997 Professor Anne Buttimer
  • 1998 Professor Susan Smith
  • 1999 Professor Robert Woods
  • 2000 Professor Felix Driver
  • 2001 Ann Shirley
  • 2002 Professor David Woodward
    David Woodward
    David Woodward was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.- Biography :Woodward was born in Royal Leamington Spa, England. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester, England, he came to the United States to study cartography under Arthur H....

  • 2003 Professor David Smith
  • 2004 Dr Tom Spencer
  • 2005 Dr Clive Oppenheimer
  • 2006 Professor Tony Gatrell
  • 2007 not awarded
  • 2008 Professor Neil Wrigley
  • 2009 Professor Jenny Robinson
  • 2010 Professor Gerry Kearns
  • 2011 Professor Stuart Elden
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