The Bancroft Award is an award of the

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"given for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences that have conspicuously contributed to public understanding and appreciation of the subject". The award was endowed in 1968 to honour her late husband by the wife of Joseph Austin Bancroft (1882–1957), formerly Dawson Professor at McGill University. It is normally awarded on a biennial basis and consists of a presentation scroll and a cash award of

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$2,500.

Recipients

* 1968 -

John Tuzo Wilson John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. ''Plate tectonics'' is the scientific theory that the rigi ...

, FRSC * 1970 - David M. Baird, FRSC * 1975 - E.R. Ward Neale, FRSC * 1976 - Roger A. Blais * 1978 - Frank Kenneth North * 1980 - William W. Hutchison * 1982 - Christopher R. Barnes, FRSC * 1984 - Jack G. Souther * 1986 - Derek York, FRSC * 1990 - Steven D. Scott, FRSC * 1992 - Godfrey S. Nowlan * 1994 - Alan V. Morgan * 1996 -

Dale A. Russell Dale Alan Russell (27 December 1937 – 21 December 2019) was an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist. Throughout his career Russell worked as the Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Research Professor at ...

* 2000 -

Jan Veizer Ján Veizer (born 22 June 1941) is the Distinguished University Professor (emeritus) of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa and Institute for Geology, Mineralogy und Geophysics, of Bochum Ruhr University. He held the NSERC/Noranda/CIFAR I ...

, FRSC * 2002 - John J. Clague, FRSC * 2004 -

William Richard Peltier William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. ( hc(born 1943), is university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Scienc past principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Networ and the ...

, FRSC * 2006 - David J. Dunlop, FRSC * 2008 - Anthony E. Williams-Jones, FRSC * 2010 - Frank C. Hawthorne * 2014 - Guy Narbonne * 2016 -

Barbara Sherwood Lollar Barbara Sherwood Lollar, (born February 19, 1963) is a Canadian geologist and academic known for her research into billion-year-old water. She is currently a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Toronto. In 2007, sh ...

, FRSC * 2018 -

Michel Jébrak Michel Jébrak is a French Canadians, Franco-Canadian geologist, academic and a researcher. He is an emeritus professor at Université du Québec, University of Quebec’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a former Vice-Rector for ...

* 2020 -

Irena Creed Irena Creed is a Canadian hydrologist. She is currently the vice-principal for research and innovation at University of Toronto Scarborough. She was the associate vice-president for research at the University of Saskatchewan, and the executive dir ...

, FRSC * 2022 - Sandra M. Barr

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