Wollaston Medal

The Wollaston Medal is an award that is awarded by the Geological Society of London to scientists for outstanding achievements in the field of geology.

The medal is named after the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston ( 1766-1828 ). It was first awarded in 1831., Originally consisting of palladium, a metal that Wollaston had discovered.

The list of awarded this medal personalities includes:

1831-1849

1850-1899

1900-1949

1950-1999

Since 2000

  • 2000 William Sefton Fyfe
  • 2001 Harry Whittington
  • 2002 Rudolf Trümpy
  • 2003 Ikuo Kushiro
  • 2004 Geoffrey Eglinton
  • 2005 Edward A. Irving
  • 2006 James Lovelock
  • 2007 Andrew Knoll
  • 2008 Norman Sleep
  • 2009 Paul F. Hoffman
  • 2010 Richard Sibson
  • 2011 Robert Stephen John Sparks
  • 2012 Christopher Hawkesworth
  • 2013 Kurt Lambeck
  • 2014 Maureen Raymo
William Smith (geologist) Gideon Mantell Proby Cautley Richard Owen Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart John Phillips (geologist) William Lonsdale William Buckland Joseph Prestwich William Hopkins Adam Sedgwick William Henry Fitton Sir Richard Griffith, 1st Baronet William Edmond Logan Charles Darwin Searles Valentine Wood Heinrich Georg Bronn Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen Gustav Bischof Charles Lyell George Julius Poulett Scrope Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann Henry Clifton Sorby Sir Philip Grey Egerton, 10th Baronet Oswald Heer Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck Thomas Henry Huxley Robert Mallet Thomas Wright (geologist) Bernhard Studer Peter Martin Duncan George Busk Alfred Des Cloizeaux Henry Benedict Medlicott Thomas George Bonney William Crawford Williamson John Wesley Judd Nevil Story Maskelyne Karl Alfred von Zittel Archibald Geikie Ferdinand Zirkel Charles Lapworth Grove Karl Gilbert Charles Barrois Albert Heim Paul Heinrich von Groth Horace Bolingbroke Woodward William Berryman Scott Lazarus Fletcher Osmond Fisher John Edward Marr Edgeworth David Aubrey Strahan Ben Peach John Horne Alfred Harker William Whitaker (geologist) George William Lamplugh Henry Fairfield Osborn William Whitehead Watts Dukinfield Henry Scott Friedrich Johann Karl Becke Albert Charles Seward Arthur William Rogers Marcellin Boule Henry Alexander Miers John Flett (geologist) Waldemar Lindgren Maurice Lugeon Frank Dawson Adams Arthur Louis Day Victor Goldschmidt Owen Thomas Jones Emmanuel de Margerie Robert Broom Norman L. Bowen Herbert Harold Read Leonard Johnston Wills Arthur Elijah Trueman Arthur Holmes Pentti Eskola Cecil Edgar Tilley Leonard Hawkes Harold Jeffreys Francis Parker Shepard Edward Bullard Maurice Ewing Ralph Alger Bagnold Hans Ramberg Alfred Romer Kingsley Charles Dunham Augusto Gansser-Biaggi Dan McKenzie (geophysicist) Gerald J. Wasserburg John Graham Ramsay Martin Bott Samuel Epstein (geochemist) W. Jason Morgan George Patrick Leonard Walker Steve Sparks (volcanologist) List of Penrose Medal winners Murchison Medal
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