Price Medal
Encyclopedia
Price Medal is a medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
. It is now awarded every other year for investigations of outstanding merit in solid-earth geophysics
, oceanography
, or planetary sciences.
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...
. It is now awarded every other year for investigations of outstanding merit in solid-earth geophysics
Geophysics
Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...
, oceanography
Oceanography
Oceanography , also called oceanology or marine science, is the branch of Earth science that studies the ocean...
, or planetary sciences.
Price Medalists
Recent award winners are:- 1994 John Arthur Jacobs
- 1997 Catherine Constable
- 2000 Jean-Louis Le Mouël
- 2003 Y. Kaminde
- 2005 Gillian FoulgerGillian FoulgerGillian Foulger is a professor of geophysics at Durham University.She is one of the leading proponents of alternative models to the established deep mantle thermal plume hypothesis....
- 2007 Andrew Jackson
- 2009 Malcolm Sambridge