William Bowie Medal

The William Bowie Medal is a geoscientific price and represents the highest award, which is awarded by the American Geophysical Union ( AGU).

The usually short termed Bowie Medal Medal is awarded annually. With the award honors scientists for outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and unselfish cooperation in research. The latter is one of the defining themes of the AGU.

Was introduced the medal in 1939 at the initiative of the then ( eighth ) AGU President Richard Field in honor of William Bowie ( 1872-1940 ), the first presidents of AGU 1919 until 1921. This was 1939, the same time the first prize winner.

Award winners

Earth science William Bowie (engineer) Arthur Louis Day Henry Bryant Bigelow Jacob Bjerknes Harold Jeffreys Beno Gutenberg Veikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen Maurice Ewing Walter M. Elsasser Francis Birch (geophysicist) Keith Edward Bullen Sydney Chapman (mathematician) Merle Tuve Julius Bartels Hugo Benioff Lloyd Berkner Inge Lehmann Edward Bullard James Van Allen Helmut Landsberg Frank Press Herbert Friedman Marcel Nicolet Henry William Menard Eugene Parker Don L. Anderson Alfred O. C. Nier Irwin I. Shapiro Raymond Hide John Alexander Simpson Dan McKenzie (geophysicist) Susan Solomon Gerald J. Wasserburg
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