The Miller Medal is an award of the Royal Society of Canada

Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada , may also operate under the more descriptive name RSC: The Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada , is the oldest association of scientists and scholars in Canada...

 given for outstanding research in any branch of the earth sciences.

In 1941, twelve friends of Willet Green Miller, FRSC (1867–1925), a distinguished geologist

Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...

, and a guiding force in the development of the Ontario mining industry, subscribed funds to provide the Willet G. Miller Medal for geology.

The award consists of a gold-plated silver medal and is awarded every two years if there is a suitable candidate.

Award winners

• 2009 - R. Paul Young
• 2007 - Frederick John Longstaffe
• 2005 - Kurt Kyser, FRSC
• 2003 - Roger H. Mitchell, FRSC
• 2001 - Robert L. Carroll
  Robert L. Carroll
  Robert Lynn Carroll is a vertebrate paleontologist who specialises in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan...
  
  , FRSC
• 1999 - Robert Kerrich
• 1997 - Paul F. Hoffman
  Paul F. Hoffman
  Paul Felix Hoffman is a Canadian geologist and former Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He specializes in the Precambrian era and is widely known for the theory of the Snowball Earth about phenomena that occurred in the Neoproterozoic era, co-published with Daniel P....
  
  
• 1995 - Hans J. Hofmann
  Hans J. Hofmann
  Hans J. Hofmann was an award winning paleontologist, specializing in the study of Precambrian fossils using computer modelling and image analysis to quantify morphologic attributes....
  
  
• 1993 - Frank C. Hawthorne, FRSC
• 1991 - Jan Veizer
  Jan Veizer
  Ján Veizer is the Distinguished University Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Institute for Geology, Mineralogy und Geophysis, of Bochum Ruhr University, he held the NSERC/Noranda/CIFAR Industrial Chair in Earth System Isotope and Environmental Geochemistry until 2004...
  
  , FRSC
• 1989 - William H. Mathews, FRSC
• 1987 - Harold Williams, FRSC
• 1985 - William S. Fyfe, FRSC
• 1983 - Donald F. Stott
• 1981 - Denis M. Shaw, FRSC
• 1979 - Edward T. Tozer
• 1977 - Allan M. Goodwin
• 1975 - J. Ross Mackay
  J. Ross Mackay
  John Ross Mackay, OC, FRSC is an award winning Canadian geologist. He is most noted for his explorations of permafrost phenomena in the western Canadian Arctic...
  
  
• 1973 - Raymond Thorsteinsson
  Raymond Thorsteinsson
  Raymond Thorsteinsson is an award-winning Canadian geologist who focuses on the geology of the high Arctic. He is a Fellow of The Arctic Institute of North America, primarily known for his contribution to the geology of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic rocks.-Biography:Thorsteinsson was born in...
  
  
• 1971 - Robert W. Boyle
• 1969 - J.A. Jeletzky
• 1967 - Robert E. Folinsbee
• 1965 - R. J. W. Douglas
  R. J. W. Douglas
  Robert John Wilson "Bob" Douglas FRSC was an award winning Canadian geologist who made noteworthy contributions in the fields of structure stratigraphy, sedimentation, and petroleum geology.-Education:...
  
  , FRSC
• 1963 - Leonard G. Berry
• 1961 - William H. White
  William H. White
  William H. White was a British architect. In 1892, he published "The Architect and his artists, an essay to assist the public in considering the question is architecture a profession or an art" in reply to "Architecture, a Profession or an Art" edited by Norman Shaw and T. G...
  
  
• 1959 - Loris S. Russell
• 1957 - James E. Gill
  James E. Gill
  James Edward Gill was a scientist, teacher, explorer and mine developer. Along with William R. James, Sr. he discovered the high-grade iron ore deposits of Quebec and Labrador. He is remembered for his important contributions in the fields of stratigraphy and Pleistocene geology.Gill was born in...
  
  
• 1955 - John Tuzo Wilson
• 1953 - Clifford H. Stockwell
  Clifford H. Stockwell
  Clifford Howard Stockwell was an award-winning geologist, who published many scientific papers, reports and memoirs in the fields of Mineralogy, Structural Geology, Petrology, and Stratigraphy....
  
  
• 1951 - James Edwin Hawley
  James Edwin Hawley
  James Edwin Hawley was an award winning Canadian geologist and distinguished Professor of Mineralogy at Queen's University....
  
  
• 1949 - Hardy V. Ellsworth
• 1947 - Frank H. McLearn, FRSC
• 1945 - Morley E. Wilson, FRSC
• 1943 - Norman Levi Bowen, FRSC

External links

• Willet G. Miller Medal Royal Society of Canada