Wollaston Medal
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The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology
, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London
.
The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston
, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of palladium
, a metal discovered by Wollaston.
Geology
Geology is the science comprising the study of solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which it evolves. Geology gives insight into the history of the Earth, as it provides the primary evidence for plate tectonics, the evolutionary history of life, and past climates...
, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London
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"...
.
The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston FRS was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering two chemical elements and for developing a way to process platinum ore.-Biography:...
, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of palladium
Palladium
Palladium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired...
, a metal discovered by Wollaston.
1831 – 1849
- 1831 William SmithWilliam Smith (geologist)William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology" for collating the geological history of England and Wales into a single record, although recognition was very slow in coming...
- 1835 Gideon MantellGideon MantellGideon Algernon Mantell MRCS FRS was an English obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist...
- 1836 Louis AgassizLouis AgassizJean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history. He grew up in Switzerland and became a professor of natural history at University of Neuchâtel...
- 1837 Proby Thomas Cautley
- 1837 Hugh FalconerHugh FalconerHugh Falconer MD FRS was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist and paleoanthropologist. He studied the flora, fauna and geology of India, Assam and Burma, and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium...
- 1838 Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection...
- 1839 Christian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried EhrenbergChristian Gottfried Ehrenberg , German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time.- Early collections :...
- 1840 Andre Hubert Dumont
- 1841 Adolphe Theodore BrongniartAdolphe Theodore BrongniartAdolphe-Théodore Brongniart was a French botanist. He was the son of the geologist Alexandre Brongniart and grandson of the architect, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. Brongniart's pioneering work on the relationships between extinct and existing plants has earned him the title of father of...
- 1842 Leopold von Buch
- 1843 Jean-Baptiste Elie de BeaumontJean-Baptiste Élie de BeaumontJean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist.-Biography:Élie de Beaumont was born at Canon, in Calvados...
- 1843 Pierre Armand Dufrenoy
- 1844 William Conybeare
- 1845 John PhillipsJohn Phillips (geologist)John Phillips FRS was an English geologist.- Life and work :Philips was born at Marden in Wiltshire...
- 1846 William LonsdaleWilliam LonsdaleWilliam Lonsdale , English geologist and palaeontologist, won the Wollaston medal in 1846 for his research on the various kinds of fossil corals.-Biography:...
- 1847 Ami BouéAmi BouéAmi Boué , Austrian geologist, was born at Hamburg, and received his early education there and in Geneva and Paris....
- 1848 William BucklandWilliam BucklandThe Very Rev. Dr William Buckland DD FRS was an English geologist, palaeontologist and Dean of Westminster, who wrote the first full account of a fossil dinosaur, which he named Megalosaurus...
- 1849 Joseph PrestwichJoseph PrestwichSir Joseph Prestwich FRS, was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds....
1850 – 1899
- 1850 William HopkinsWilliam HopkinsWilliam Hopkins FRS was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate Cambridge mathematicians, earning him the sobriquet the senior-wrangler maker....
- 1851 Adam SedgwickAdam SedgwickAdam Sedgwick was one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Devonian period of the geological timescale...
- 1852 William Henry FittonWilliam Henry FittonWilliam Henry Fitton was an Irish geologist-Biography:Fitton was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College in that city. He gained the senior scholarship in 1798, and graduated in the following year. At this time he began to take an interest in geology and to form a collection of fossils...
- 1853 Adolphe d'Archaic
- 1853 Edouard de VerneuilEdouard de VerneuilPhillippe Edouard Poulletier de Verneuil was a French paleontologist.He was born in Paris and educated in law, but being of independent means he was free to follow his own inclinations, and having attended lectures on geology by Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont he was so attracted to the subject...
- 1854 Richard John GriffithRichard John GriffithSir Richard John Griffith , was an Irish geologist, mining engineer and chairman of the Board of Works of Ireland, who completed the first complete geological map of Ireland and was author of the valuation of Ireland - known ever since as Griffith's Valuation.-Biography:Griffith was born in Hume...
- 1855 Henry De la BecheHenry De la BecheSir Henry Thomas De la Beche FRS was an English geologist and palaeontologist who helped pioneer early geological survey methods.-Biography:...
- 1856 William Edmond LoganWilliam Edmond LoganSir William Edmond Logan was a Scottish-Canadian geologist.Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh . He started teaching himself geology in 1831, when he took over the running of a copper works in Swansea. He produced a...
- 1857 Joachim BarrandeJoachim BarrandeJoachim Barrande was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrande was born at Saugues, Haute Loire, and educated in the École Polytechnique at Paris...
- 1858 Hermann von Meyer
- 1859 Charles DarwinCharles DarwinCharles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
- 1860 Searles Valentine WoodSearles Valentine WoodSearles Valentine Wood was an English palaeontologist.Wood went to sea in 1811 as a midshipman in the British East India Company's service, which he left, however, in 1826. He then settled at Hasketon near Woodbridge, Suffolk...
- 1861 Heinrich Georg BronnHeinrich Georg BronnHeinrich Georg Bronn was a German geologist and paleontologist.Bronn was born at Ziegelhausen near Heidelberg. Studying at the university of Heidelberg he took his doctor's degree in the faculty of medicine in 1821, and in the following year was appointed professor of natural history...
- 1862 Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen
- 1863 Gustav BischofGustav BischofKarl Gustav Bischof was a German chemist, born in Nuremberg, Bavaria. He died in Bonn.He was a professor at Bonn and experimented on the inflammable power of gas.-Further reading:...
- 1864 Roderick MurchisonRoderick MurchisonSir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.-Early life and work:...
- 1865 Thomas Davidson
- 1866 Charles LyellCharles LyellSir 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...
- 1867 George Poulett Scrope
- 1868 Carl Friedrich Naumann
- 1869 Henry Clifton SorbyHenry Clifton SorbyHenry Clifton Sorby , was an English microscopist and geologist.-Biography:Sorby was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire and attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early developed an interest in natural science, and one of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in...
- 1870 Gerard Paul DeshayesGérard Paul DeshayesGérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist.He was born in Nancy, his father at that time being professor of experimental physics in the École Centrale of the Meurthe département....
- 1871 Andrew RamsayAndrew RamsaySir Andrew Crombie Ramsay was a Scottish geologist.-Biography:Ramsay was born at Glasgow, being the son of William Ramsay, manufacturing chemist...
- 1872 James Dwight DanaJames Dwight DanaJames Dwight Dana was an American geologist, mineralogist and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcanic activity, and the origin and structure of continents and oceans around the world.-Early life and career:...
- 1873 Philip de Malpas Grey EgertonPhilip de Malpas Grey EgertonSir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet FRS was an English palaeontologist and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1830 and 1881....
- 1874 Oswald HeerOswald HeerOswald Heer , Swiss geologist and naturalist, was born at Niederuzwil in Canton of St. Gallen and died in Lausanne.-Biography:...
- 1875 Laurent-Guillaume de KoninckLaurent-Guillaume de KoninckLaurent-Guillaume de Koninck was a Belgian palaeontologist and chemist, born at Leuven.He studied medicine in the university of his native town, and in 1831 he became assistant in the chemical schools. He pursued the study of chemistry in Paris, Berlin and Gießen, and was subsequently engaged in...
- 1876 Thomas Henry Huxley
- 1877 Robert MalletRobert MalletRobert Mallet FRS , Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology.-Early life:...
- 1878 Thomas WrightThomas Wright (geologist)Thomas Wright was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist.Wright published a number of papers on the fossils which he had collected in the Cotswolds, including Lias Ammonites of the British Isles....
- 1879 Bernhard StuderBernhard StuderBernhard Studer , Swiss geologist, was born at Büren, near Bern.Although educated as a clergyman, he became so interested in geology at the university of Göttingen that he devoted his life to its pursuit...
- 1880 Auguste DaubréeGabriel Auguste DaubréeGabriel Auguste Daubrée was a French geologist.Daubrée was born at Metz, and educated at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris...
- 1881 Peter Martin DuncanPeter Martin DuncanPeter Martin Duncan was an English palaeontologist.-Biography:Duncan was born in Twickenham, and was educated partly at the local grammar school and partly in Switzerland...
- 1882 Franz Ritter von HauerFranz Ritter von HauerFranz Ritter von Hauer, or Franz von Hauer , was an Austrian geologist.-Biography:Hauer was born in Vienna, the son of Joseph von Hauer , who was equally distinguished as a high Austrian official and authority on finance and as a palaeontologist.He was educated in Vienna, afterwards studied...
- 1883 William Thomas BlanfordWilliam Thomas BlanfordWilliam Thomas Blanford was an English geologist and naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma.-Biography:Blanford was born in London...
- 1884 Albert Jean Gaudry
- 1885 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...
- 1886 Alfred Des CloizeauxAlfred Des CloizeauxAlfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist.Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of mineralogy at the École Normale Supérieure and afterwards at the Muséum National...
- 1887 John Whitaker Hulke
- 1888 Henry Benedict MedlicottHenry Benedict MedlicottHenry Benedict Medlicott was an Irish geologist who worked in India.-Early life:He was born in Loughrea, County Galway, Ireland, the son of the Church of Ireland Rector of Loughrea, Samuel Medlicott and his wife Charlotte , daughter of Henry Benedict Dolphin, C. B...
- 1889 Thomas George BonneyThomas George BonneyThomas George Bonney FRS was an English geologist.-Career:Bonney was the eldest son of the Reverend Thomas Bonney, master of Rugeley Grammar School...
- 1890 William Crawford WilliamsonWilliam Crawford WilliamsonWilliam Crawford Williamson was an English naturalist and palaeobotanist.-Life:Williamson was born at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. His father, John Williamson, after beginning life as a gardener, became a well-known local naturalist, who, in conjunction with William Bean, first explored the rich...
- 1891 John Wesley JuddJohn Wesley JuddJohn Wesley Judd was a British geologist.He was born in Portsmouth the son of George and Jannette Judd and educated at the Royal School of Mines, where he later became Professor of Geology....
- 1892 Ferdinand von RichthofenFerdinand von RichthofenFerdinand Freiherr von Richthofen was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.-Biography:He was born in Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia, and was educated in Breslau and Berlin. He traveled or studied in the Alps of Tyrol and the Carpathians in Transylvania...
- 1893 Nevil Story MaskelyneNevil Story MaskelyneMervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne was an English geologist and politician.-Scientific career:Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford from 1851, before becoming a professor of mineralogy, 1856-95. He was Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum...
- 1894 Karl Alfred von ZittelKarl Alfred von ZittelKarl Alfred Ritter von Zittel was a German palaeontologist.-Biography:He was born at Bahlingen in Baden, and educated at Heidelberg, Paris and Vienna. For a short period he served on the Geological Survey of Austria, and as assistant in the mineralogical museum at Vienna...
- 1895 Archibald GeikieArchibald GeikieSir Archibald Geikie, OM, KCB, PRS, FRSE , was a Scottish geologist and writer.-Early life:Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835, the eldest son of musician and music critic James Stuart Geikie...
- 1896 Eduard SuessEduard SuessEduard Suess was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana and the Tethys Ocean.Born in London to a Jewish Saxon merchant, when he was three his family relocated toPrague,...
- 1897 Wilfred Hudleston HudlestonWilfred Hudleston HudlestonWilfred Hudleston Hudleston FRS was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1884. He was the president of the Geological Society of London from 1892 to 1894...
- 1898 Ferdinand ZirkelFerdinand ZirkelFerdinand Zirkel was a German geologist and petrographer.-Biography:He was born in Bonn. He was educated in his native town, and graduated Ph.D. at the University of Bonn in 1861. His training and initial interest was in mining...
- 1899 Charles LapworthCharles LapworthCharles Lapworth was an English geologist.-Biography:He was born at Faringdon in Berkshire and educated as a teacher at the Culham Diocesan Training College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He moved to the Scottish border region, where he investigated the previously little-known fossil fauna of the area...
1900 – 1949
- 1900 Grove Karl GilbertGrove Karl GilbertGrove Karl Gilbert , known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist....
- 1901 Charles BarroisCharles BarroisCharles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...
- 1902 Friedrich SchmidtFriedrich SchmidtFriedrich Schmidt was Baltic German geologist and botanist in Russian Empire. He won the Wollaston Medal in 1902.- External links :*...
- 1903 Heinrich Rosenbusch
- 1904 Albert HeimAlbert HeimAlbert Heim was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz.Born at Zürich, he was educated at Zürich and Berlin universities. Very early in life he became interested in the physical features of the Alps, and at the age of sixteen he made a model of the Tödi group...
- 1905 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
- 1906 Henry WoodwardHenry Woodward (geologist)Henry Bolingbroke Woodward was an English geologist.He became assistant in the geological department of the British Museum in 1858, and in 1880 keeper of that department. He became FRS in 1873, LL.D in 1878, president of the Geological Society of London...
- 1907 William Johnson SollasWilliam Johnson SollasWilliam Johnson Sollas FRS was a British geologist and anthropologist. After studying at the City of London School, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines he matriculated to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours in geology...
- 1908 Paul Heinrich von GrothPaul Heinrich von GrothPaul Heinrich von Groth was a German mineralogist. His most important contribution to science was his systematic classification of minerals based on their chemical compositions and crystal structures....
- 1909 Horace Bolingbroke WoodwardHorace Bolingbroke WoodwardHorace Bolingbroke Woodward was a British geologist who participated in the Geological Survey of England and Wales. President of the Geological Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1896....
- 1910 William Berryman ScottWilliam Berryman ScottWilliam Berryman Scott was an American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs. He was a professor of geology and paleontology at Princeton University....
- 1911 Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
- 1912 Lazarus FletcherLazarus FletcherSir Lazarus Fletcher was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1912. Fletcher was knighted in 1916....
- 1913 Osmond FisherOsmond FisherReverend Osmond Fisher was an English geologist and geophysicist....
- 1914 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...
- 1915 Edgeworth DavidEdgeworth DavidSir Tannatt William Edgeworth David KBE, DSO, FRS, was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. A household name in his lifetime, David's most significant achievements were discovering the major Hunter Valley coalfield in New South Wales and leading the first expedition to reach the...
- 1916 Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky
- 1917 (Francois Antoine) Alfred LacroixAntoine LacroixAntoine François Alfred Lacroix was a French mineralogist and geologist. He was born at Mâcon, Saône-et-Loire....
- 1918 Charles Doolittle WalcottCharles Doolittle WalcottCharles Doolittle Walcott was an American invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...
- 1919 Aubrey StrahanAubrey StrahanSir Aubrey Strahan KBE FRS was a British geologist. He won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1919....
- 1920 Gerard Jacob De Geer
- 1921 Benjamin Neeve Peach
- 1921 John HorneJohn HorneJohn Horne was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. He was a pupil of Ben Peach....
- 1922 Alfred HarkerAlfred Harker (petrologist)Alfred Harker FRS was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He worked for the Geological Survey of Scotland and conducted extensive surveying and geological studies of western Scotland and the Isle of Skye...
- 1923 William Whitaker
- 1924 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...
- 1925 George William LamplughGeorge William LamplughGeorge William Lamplugh was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925.-References:...
- 1926 Henry Fairfield OsbornHenry Fairfield OsbornHenry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. ForMemRS was an American geologist, paleontologist, and eugenicist.-Early life and career:...
- 1927 William Whitehead WattsWilliam Whitehead WattsWilliam Whitehead Watts was a British geologist. He was born at Broseley and educated at Denstone College, and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, of which he was a fellow in 1888–94, and he was also an extension lecturer of the university in 1882–91...
- 1928 Dukinfield Henry ScottDukinfield Henry ScottDukinfield Henry Scott FRS was a British botanist.The architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was his father...
- 1929 Friedrich Johann Karl BeckeFriedrich Johann Karl BeckeFriedrich Johann Karl Becke was an Austrian mineralogist and petrograph.- Biography :After studying at the University of Vienna, where he specialized in the natural sciences, he became there a lecturer on geology. In 1882 he was appointed professor at the University of Czernowitz...
- 1930 Albert Charles SewardAlbert Charles SewardAlbert Charles Seward FRS was a British botanist and geologist.-Life:His first education was at Lancaster Grammar School and then on to St. John's College at Cambridge following his parents' wish to dedicate his life to the Church...
- 1931 Arthur William Rogers
- 1932 Johan Herman Lie Vogt
- 1933 Marcellin BouleMarcellin BouleMarcellin Boule was a French palaeontologist.He studied and published the first analysis of a complete Homo neanderthalensis. The fossil discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints was an old man, and Boule characterized it as brutish, bent kneed and not a fully erect biped...
- 1934 Henry Alexander Miers
- 1935 John Smith FlettJohn Smith FlettSir John Smith Flett KBE FRS was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1917, made KBE in 1925 and won the Wollaston Medal in 1935.In the mid 1970s, the then new, glass-faced structure...
- 1936 Gustaaf Adolf Frederik MolengraaffGustaaf Adolf Frederik MolengraaffGustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff was a Dutch geologist, biologist and explorer. He became an authority on the geology of South Africa and the Dutch East Indies....
- 1937 Waldemar LindgrenWaldemar LindgrenWaldemar Lindgren was a Swedish-American geologist. Lindgren was one of the founders of modern Economic geology.-Biography:...
- 1938 Maurice LugeonMaurice LugeonMaurice Lugeon was a Swiss geologist, and the pioneer of nappe tectonics. He was a pupil of Eugène Renevier. Named for Maurice Lugeon, the lugeon is a measure of transmissivity in rocks, determined by pressurized injection of water through a bore hole driven through the rock...
- 1939 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...
- 1940 Henry Woods
- 1941 Arthur Louis DayArthur Louis DayLouis Day was an American geological physicist. He was born in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Day established the Arthur L. Day Medal , for "outstanding distinction in contributing to geologic knowledge through the application of physics and chemistry to the solution of geologic problems", in...
- 1942 Reginald Aldworth DalyReginald Aldworth Daly-External links:* Daly′s Biography, American Geophysical Union* GSA Today, vol. 16, no. 2, 2006* National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 36 pp., 1960...
- 1943 Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman
- 1944 Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
- 1945 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,...
- 1946 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...
- 1947 Joseph Burr Tyrrell
- 1948 Edward Battersby BaileyEdward Battersby BaileySir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS was an English geologist.Bailey was born in Marsden, Kent, and educated at Kendal grammar school and Clare College, Cambridge. He gained first-class honours in both parts one and two of the natural sciences tripos...
- 1949 Robert BroomRobert BroomProfessor Robert Broom was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow...
1950 – 1999
- 1950 Norman Levi Bowen
- 1951 Olaf HoltedahlOlaf HoltedahlOlaf Holtedahl, , was a geologist who was a winner of the Wollaston Medal. He was elected member of the Royal Society in 1961.- Bibliography :...
- 1952 Herbert Harold ReadHerbert Harold ReadHerbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College...
- 1953 Erik StensiöErik StensiöErik Helge Osvald Stensiö was a Swedish paleozoologist.Erik Andersson, as his original name was, was born in the village of Stensjö in Döderhult parish in Kalmar County; he later took his new surname from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names...
- 1954 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...
- 1955 Arthur Elijah TruemanArthur Elijah TruemanSir Arthur Elijah Trueman, FRS, was a British geologist.-Early life and career:Trueman was born in Nottingham, son of Elijah and Thirza Trueman. He was educated at High Pavement School, Nottingham, leaving in 1911 to become student teacher at Huntington Street School, Nottingham...
- 1956 Arthur HolmesArthur HolmesArthur Holmes was a British geologist. As a child he lived in Low Fell, Gateshead and attended the Gateshead Higher Grade School .-Age of the earth:...
- 1957 Paul FourmarierPaul FourmarierPaul Fourmarier was a Belgian geologist, professor at the University of Liège, and after whom Fourmarierite is named. He won the Wollaston Medal....
- 1958 Pentti Eskola
- 1959 Pierre Pruvost
- 1960 Cecil Edgar TilleyCecil Edgar TilleyCecil Edgar Tilley FRS was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist.He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife Catherine Jane...
- 1961 Roman KozłowskiRoman KozłowskiRoman Kozłowski was a Polish palaeontologist, best known for his work on graptolites.Kozłowski was born in Włocławek. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and founder of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica...
- 1962 Leonard HawkesLeonard HawkesLeonard Hawkes FRS was a British geologist.-External links:* http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=910&inst_id=11...
- 1963 Felix Andries Vening MeineszFelix Andries Vening MeineszFelix Andries Vening Meinesz was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity. Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure gravity at sea, which led him to the discovery of gravity anomalies above the ocean floor...
- 1964 Harold JeffreysHarold JeffreysSir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His seminal book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.-Biography:Jeffreys was born in Fatfield, Washington, County...
- 1965 D. M. S. Watson
- 1966 Francis Parker ShepardFrancis Parker ShepardFrancis Parker Shepard was an American sedimentologist most associated with his studies of submarine canyons and seafloor currents around continental shelves and slopes....
- 1967 Edward Crisp Bullard
- 1968 Raymond Cecil MooreRaymond Cecil MooreRaymond Cecil Moore was an American geologist. In 1970 he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.- Bibliography :...
- 1969 William Maurice Ewing
- 1970 Philip Henry KuenenPhilip Henry KuenenPhilip Henry Kuenen was a Dutch geologist.Kuenen spent his earliest youth in Scotland, where his father was professor in physics. He studied geology at Leiden University, where he was a pupil of K. Martin and B.G. Escher. He finished his studies in 1925 and then became assistant to Escher...
- 1971 Ralph Alger BagnoldRalph Alger BagnoldBrigadier Ralph Alger Bagnold, FRS OBE, was the founder and first commander of the British Army's Long Range Desert Group during World War II. He is also generally considered to have been a pioneer of desert exploration, an acclaim earned for his activities during the 1930s...
- 1972 Hans RambergHans RambergHans Ramberg was a Norwegian-Swedish geologist. The mineral rambergite was named after him.-Life and work:He received his Ph.D from the University of Oslo in 1946...
- 1973 Alfred Sherwood Romer
- 1974 Francis John Pettijohn
- 1975 Hollis Dow HedbergHollis Dow HedbergHollis Dow Hedberg was an American geologist specialising in petroleum exploration. He taught at Princeton University from 1959 until his retirement in 1971. Hedberg was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1973...
- 1976 Kingsley Charles DunhamKingsley Charles DunhamSir Kingsley Charles Dunham FRS was one of the leading British geologists and mineralogists of the 20th century. He was a Professor of Geology at the University of Durham from 1950-71. He was later Professor Emeritus from 1967-2001...
- 1977 Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
- 1978 John Tuzo Wilson
- 1979 Hatton Schuyler YoderHatten YoderHatten Schuyler Yoder, Jr., was a geophysicist and experimental petrologist who conducted pioneering work on minerals under high pressure and temperature. He was noted for his study of silicates and igneous rocks....
- 1980 Augusto Gansser
- 1981 Robert Minard Garrels
- 1982 Peter John WylliePeter John WylliePeter John Wyllie is a petrologist who was Professor of Geology at Caltech from 1983 until his retirement in 1999. Prior to this, he held positions at the University of St Andrews , the University of Pennsylvania , the University of Leeds , and the University of Chicago...
- 1983 Dan Peter McKenzie
- 1984 Kenneth J. HsuKenneth J. HsuKenneth J. Hsu Ph.D, M.A., born 28 June 1929, is a Swiss scientist, geologist, paleoclimatologist, oceanographer, government advisor, author, inventor and entrepreneur who was born in Nanjing, China.-Biography:EducationHsu Kenneth J. Hsu Ph.D, M.A., born 28 June 1929, is a Swiss scientist,...
- 1985 Gerald Joseph Wasserburg
- 1986 John Graham RamsayJohn Graham RamsayJohn Graham Ramsay is a British structural geologist. He went to Imperial College London and became a full professor in 1966. In the following year he published his first book, Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, which garnered him attention in structural geology...
- 1987 Claude Jean AllègreClaude AllègreClaude Allègre is a French politician and scientist.- Scientific work :The main scientific area of Claude Allègre is geochemistry....
- 1988 Alfred Ringwood
- 1989 Drummond Hoyle MatthewsDrummond MatthewsDrummond Hoyle Matthews FRS was a British marine geologist and geophysicist and a key contributor to the theory of plate tectonics...
- 1990 Wallace S. BroeckerWallace S. BroeckerWallace Smith Broecker is the Newberry Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and a scientist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory...
- 1991 Xavier Le PichonXavier Le PichonXavier Le Pichon is a French geophysicist. Among many other contributions, he is known for his comprehensive model of plate tectonics .He is professor at the Collège de France.-Biography:Le Pichon holds a doctorate in physics....
- 1992 Martin Harold Phillips BottMartin BottMartin Harold Phillips Bott FRS is an English geologist and now Emeritus Professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Durham University, England.He is a Vice-President of Christians in Science...
- 1993 Samuel EpsteinSamuel Epstein (geochemist)Samuel Epstein was a Canadian-American geochemist who developed methods for reconstructing geologic temperature records using stable isotope geochemistry...
- 1994 William Jason Morgan
- 1995 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....
- 1996 Nicholas John Shackleton
- 1997 Douglas James Shearman
- 1998 Karl Karekin Turekian
- 1999 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...
2000
- 2000 William Sefton Fyfe
- 2001 Harry Blackmore Whittington
- 2002 Rudolf TrumpyRudolf TrumpyRudolf Trümpy is a Swiss Geologist, who was born in the small Swiss town of Glarus. He graduated from the ETH Zürich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: “Der Lias der Glarner Alpen”. From 1947 to 1953 he spent his post-doctoral years in Lausanne before being appointed professor at ETH Zürich...
- 2003 Ikuo Kushiro
- 2004 Geoffrey EglintonGeoffrey EglintonGeoffrey Eglinton, FRS is a British chemist and Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Fellow in Earth Sciences at Bristol University....
- 2005 Ted Irving
- 2006 James LovelockJames LovelockJames Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS is an independent scientist, environmentalist and futurologist who lives in Devon, England. He is best known for proposing the Gaia hypothesis, which postulates that the biosphere is a self-regulating entity with the capacity to keep our planet healthy by controlling...
- 2007 Andrew Knoll
- 2008 Norman Sleep
- 2009 Paul F. HoffmanPaul F. HoffmanPaul 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....
- 2010 Richard Hugh Sibson
- 2011 Robert Stephen John SparksSteve Sparks (volcanologist)Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, CBE , is Chaning Wills Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is one of the world's leading volcanologists and has been widely recognised for his work in this field.-Career:Steve Sparks is a graduate of Imperial...
See also
:Category:Wollaston Medal winners- List of medals
- Prizes named after peoplePrizes named after peopleThis is a list of prizes that are named after people.For other lists of eponyms see Lists of etymologies.* Ansari X Prize - Anousheh Ansari, Amir Ansari* Prince of Asturias Awards - Felipe, Prince of Asturias-A:...
- Geology of the United Kingdom