The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the
Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe with more than 12,000 Fellows.
Fe ...
, equal in status to the
Murchison Medal
The Murchison Medal is an academic award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871. First awarded in 1873, it is normally given to people who have made a significant contribution to geology by means of a substantial body of research and ...
. This medal is awarded based on one Earth Scientist's exceptional contribution of research to the scientific community. It is named after
Charles Lyell
Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who demonstrated the power of known natural causes in explaining the earth's history. He is best known as the author of ''Principles of Geolo ...
.
Lyell Medalists
Source
Geological Society
19th century
* 1876
John Morris
* 1877
James Hector
Sir James Hector (16 March 1834 – 6 November 1907) was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employe ...
* 1878
George Busk
George Busk FRS FRAI (12 August 1807 – 10 August 1886) was a British naval surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist.
Early life, family and education
Busk was born in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was the son of the merchant Robert Busk and his ...
* 1879
Edmond Hebert
* 1880
John Evans
* 1881
John William Dawson
Sir John William Dawson (1820–1899) was a Canadian geologist and university administrator.
Life and work
John William Dawson was born on 13 October 1820 in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where he attended and graduated from Pictou Academy. Of Scotti ...
* 1882
John Lycett
* 1883
William Benjamin Carpenter
William Benjamin Carpenter CB FRS (29 October 1813 – 19 November 1885) was an English physician, invertebrate zoologist and physiologist. He was instrumental in the early stages of the unified University of London.
Life
Carpenter was born ...
* 1884
Joseph Leidy
Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist.
Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later was a professor of natural history at Swarthmore ...
* 1885
Harry Govier Seeley
Harry Govier Seeley (18 February 1839 – 8 January 1909) was a British paleontologist.
Early life
Seeley was born in London on 18 February 1839, the second son of Richard Hovill Seeley, a goldsmith, and his second wife Mary Govier. When his fat ...
* 1886
William Pengelly
William Pengelly, Royal Society, FRS Geological Society, FGS (12 January 1812 – 16 March 1894) was a British geologist and amateur archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated ...
* 1887
Samuel Allport
Samuel Allport (January 23, 1816July 7, 1897) was an English petrologist.
Life
He was born in Birmingham and educated in that city.
Although occupied in business during the greater portion of his life, his leisure was given to geological stud ...
* 1888
Henry Alleyne Nicholson
Henry Alleyne Nicholson FRS FRSE FGS FLS (11 September 1844 – 19 January 1899) was a British palaeontologist and zoologist.
Life
The son of John Nicholson (1809–1886), a biblical scholar, and his wife Annie Elizabeth Waring, he was born ...
* 1889
William Boyd Dawkins
Sir William Boyd Dawkins (26 December 183715 January 1929) was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manc ...
* 1890
Thomas Rupert Jones
Thomas Rupert Jones Royal Society, FRS (1 October 181913 April 1911) was a British geologist and palaeontologist.
Biography
Jones was born on 1 October 1819 in Cheapside, London, the son of John Jones, silk merchant, and his wife Rhoda (née Bur ...
* 1891
Thomas McKenny Hughes
Thomas McKenny Hughes (17 December 1832 – 9 June 1917) was a Wales, Welsh geologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.
Private life
Thomas M. Hughes was born in Aberystwyth, one of the nine children (six sist ...
* 1892
George Highfield Morton
* 1893
Edwin Tulley Newton
Edwin Tulley Newton (4 May 1840 – 28 January 1930) was a British paleontologist.
Newton originally worked at handicrafts, but was able to attend Thomas Henry Huxley's lectures and by 1865, was appointed as his assistant. In 1882, he becam ...
* 1894
John Milne
John Milne (30 December 1850 – 31 July 1913) was a British geologist and mining engineer who worked on a horizontal seismograph.
Biography
Milne was born in Liverpool, England, the only child of John Milne of Milnrow, and at first raised in ...
* 1895
John Frederick Blake
John Frederick Blake (3 April 1839 – 7 July 1906) was a British geologist and Anglican clergyman.
Blake received B.A. 1862 and M.A. 1865 from Caius College, Cambridge. He was ordained a deacon in 1862 and a priest in 1863. He was curate of Len ...
* 1896
Arthur Smith Woodward
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, FRS (23 May 1864 – 2 September 1944) was an English palaeontologist, known as a world expert in fossil fish. He also described the Piltdown Man fossils, which were later determined to be fraudulent. He is not relate ...
* 1897
George Jennings Hinde
George Jennings Hinde (24 March 1839 – 18 March 1918) was a British geologist and paleontologist.
Works
Extensive studies on scolecodonts by George J. Hinde of material from England, Wales, Canada and Sweden established a basis for the nome ...
* 1898
Wilhelm Waagen
* 1899
Charles Alexander McMahon Lieutenant-General Charles Alexander McMahon FRS FGS (23 March 1830 – 21 February 1904) was an Anglo-Irish soldier, geologist, and administrator in British India. In 1899 he was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London.
McMah ...
* 1900
John Edward Marr
John Edward Marr FGS FRS (14 June 1857 – 1 October 1933) 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. Following under ...
20th century
* 1901
Ramsay Heatley Traquair
Ramsay Heatley Traquair FRSE FRS (30 July 1840 – 22 November 1912) was a Scottish naturalist and palaeontologist who became a leading expert on fossil fish.
Traquair trained as a medical doctor, but his thesis was on aspects of fish anatom ...
* 1902
Antonin Fritsch Antonin may refer to:
People
* Antonin (name)
Places
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* Antonin, Jarocin County, Greater Poland Voivodeship
* Antonin, Kalisz County, Greater Poland Voivodeship
* Antonin, Oborniki County, Greater Poland Voivodeship
* Antonin, Ostrów ...
* 1902
Richard Lydekker
Richard Lydekker (; 25 July 1849 – 16 April 1915) was an English naturalist, geologist and writer of numerous books on natural history.
Biography
Richard Lydekker was born at Tavistock Square in London. His father was Gerard Wolfe Lydekker, ...
* 1903
Frederick William Rudler
Frederick William Rudler FGS FRAI (8 July 1840 – 23 January 1915) was an English mineralogist, geologist, anthropologist, and natural scientist.
He was born on 8 July 1840 in London. After completing education at the Regent Street Royal Poly ...
* 1904
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist.
Life
He was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden.
Nathorst's interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’Pr ...
* 1905
Hans Reusch
Hans Henrik Reusch (5 September 1852 – 27 October 1922) was a Norwegian geologist, geomorphologist and educator. He served as director of the Geological Survey of Norway. Biography
Born in Bergen, he was educated at the University of Leipz ...
* 1906
Frank Dawson Adams
Frank Dawson Adams (September 17, 1859 – December 26, 1942) was a Canadian geologist.
Early life and education
Frank Dawson Adams was born into a prosperous, middle-class family in Montreal, Quebec.
Adams attended the High School of Montr ...
* 1907
(John) Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
* 1908
Richard Dixon Oldham
Richard Dixon Oldham FRS (; 31 July 1858 – 15 July 1936) was a British geologist who made the first clear identification of the separate arrivals of P-waves, S-waves and surface waves on seismograms and the first clear evidence that the ...
* 1909
Percy Fry Kendall
* 1910
Arthur Vaughan
* 1911
Francis Arthur Bather
Francis Arthur Bather FRS (17 February 1863, in Richmond upon Thames – 20 March 1934) was a British palaeontologist, geologist and malacologist. His mother, Lucy Elizabeth Blomfield, was a daughter of Charles Blomfield, Bishop of London. His ...
* 1911
Arthur Walton Rowe
* 1912
Philip Lake
* 1913
Sydney Savory Buckman
Sydney Savory Buckman (3 April 1860, in Cirencester – 26 February 1929) was a British palaeontologist and stratigrapher. He is known for his studies of extinct marine invertebrates, especially the Brachiopoda and Ammonoidea of the Jurassic er ...
* 1914
Charles Stewart Middlemiss
* 1915
Edmund Johnston Garwood
Edmund Johnston Garwood (18 May 1864 in Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire – 12 June 1949 in London) was a British geologist and President of the Geological Society of London from 1930 to 1932.
He was born in Bridlington and educated at ...
* 1916
Charles William Andrews
Charles William Andrews (30 October 1866 – 25 May 1924) F.R.S., was a British palaeontologist whose career as a vertebrate paleontologist, both as a curator and in the field, was spent in the services of the British Museum, Department of Ge ...
* 1917
Wheelton Hind
* 1918
Henry Woods
* 1919
William Fraser Hume
Dr William Fraser Hume FRSE (1867–1949) was a British geologist specialising in Egypt.
Life
He was born in Cheltenham in England on 1 October 1867 the son of George Hume.
He received his early education in Russia and at College Galliard in ...
* 1920
Edward Greenly
Edward Greenly (3 December 1861 – 4 March 1951) was an English geologist known for his a detailed geological survey of the island of Anglesey. ''The Geology of Anglesey'' was published in two volumes in 1919 and followed by a one-inch geologic ...
* 1921
Emmanuel de Margerie
Emmanuel Marie Pierre Martin Jacquin de Margerie ForMemRS (11 November 1862 – 20 December 1953) was a French geographer after whom the Margerie Glacier was named, which he visited in 1913.
Awards and honours
Margerie was awarded the Cullum Geog ...
* 1922
Charles Davison
* 1923
Gustave Frédéric Dollfus Gustave Frédéric Dollfus (26 November 1850, Paris – 6 November 1931, Paris) was a French geologist and malacologist. He was the father of parasitologist Robert-Philippe Dollfus (1887–1976).
In 1868–70 he studied geology under Edmond H ...
* 1924
William Wickham King
William Wickham King (30 May 1862 – 11 December 1959), usually known as Wickham King, was a distinguished amateur geologist, a Fellow of the Geological Society for 50 years.
He was the younger son of William Henry King and followed him as a soli ...
* 1925
John Frederick Norman Green John Frederick Norman Green (26 June 1873 – 11 December 1949) was an English geologist who won the prestigious Lyell Medal in 1925 and served as president of the Geological Society of London between 1934 and 1936.
He was born in Stibbard, Norfo ...
* 1926
Owen Thomas Jones
Owen Thomas Jones, FRS FGS (16 April 1878 – 5 May 1967) was a Welsh geologist.
Education
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 ...
* 1927
Albert Ernest Kitson
Sir Albert Ernest Kitson, (21 March 1868 – 8 March 1937) was a British-Australian geologist, naturalist, and winner of the Lyell Medal in 1927.
Early life
Kitson was born in North Street, Audenshaw, Cheshire, England, the son of John ...
* 1928
Sidney Hugh Reynolds
* 1928
William Dickson Lang
William Dickson Lang (28 September 1878 – 3 March 1966) was Keeper of the Department of Geology at the British Museum from 1928 until 1938.
Early life
Lang was born at Kurnal, India the second son of Edward Tickle Lang and Hebe, the daughter of ...
* 1929
Arthur Morley Davies
* 1930
Frederick Chapman
* 1930
Herbert Brantwood Maufe
* 1931
Ernest Clayton Andrews
Ernest Clayton Andrews BA, FRS (18 October 1870 – 1 July 1948), commonly referred to as E. C. Andrews, was an Australian geologist and botanist.
Early life and education
Andrews was born in Balmain, New South Wales, second child of noted artis ...
* 1932
Henry Dewey
* 1932
Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon
* 1933
James Ernest Richey
James Ernest Richey (24 April 1886 – 19 June 1968) was an Irish-born geologist.
Life
He was born on 24 April 1886 in Desertcreat in County Tyrone in Ireland, the son of Rev John Richey, rector of the local church. His later education was at ...
* 1934
Walter Howchin
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Walter Howchin (12 January 1845 – 27 November 1937) was a geologist who lectured in mineralogy and palaeontology at the former Adelaide School of Mines and the University of Adelaide; he won the Clarke Medal in 1907.N. H. Ludbrook, ...
* 1934
Finlay Lorimer Kitchin
Finlay Lorimer Kitchin FGS, FRS (3 December 1870, Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK – 20 January 1934, London) was a British geologist and palaeontologist.
Kitchin was educated at St. Bees School and then at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he recei ...
* 1935
D. M. S. Watson
Prof David Meredith Seares Watson FRS FGS HFRSE LLD (18 June 1886 – 23 July 1973) was the Jodrell Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at University College, London from 1921 to 1951.
Biography
Early life
Watson was born in the Highe ...
* 1936
Eleanor Mary Reid[Mary R. S. Creese, ‘Reid , Eleanor Mary (1860–1953)’, ]Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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* 1936 Leonard Johnston Wills
Professor Leonard Johnston Wills (1884–1979) – known as 'Jack' to friends and family – was one of the leading British geologists of his generation. He held the Chair of Geology at the University of Birmingham from 1932 to 1949, and received m ...
* 1937 Linsdall Richardson
* 1938 John Pringle John Pringle may refer to:
*John Pringle, Lord Haining (c. 1674–1754), Scottish landowner, judge and politician, shire commissioner for Selkirk 1702–07, MP for Selkirkshire 1708–29, Lord of Session
*Sir John Pringle, 1st Baronet (1707–1782) ...
* 1939 Noel Benson
William Noel Benson FRS FRGS (26 December 1885 – 20 August 1957) was an English-born research geologist and academic active first in Australia and then New Zealand. After studying geology at the University of Sydney, Benson worked temporari ...
* 1940 Herbert Leader Hawkins
Herbert Leader Hawkins FRS (1887 – 29 December 1968) was a British geologist. Awarded the Lyell Medal in 1940.
In the First World War he was a conscientious objector, exempted from military service conditional upon continuing his then work.
...
* 1941 Ernest Sheppard Pinfold
* 1942 William Sawney Bisat
* 1943 Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia FRS (23 October 1883 – 15 June 1969) was a pioneering geologist in India and among the first Indian scientists to work in the Geological Survey of India. He is remembered for his work on the stratigraphy of the H ...
* 1944 Norman Ross Junner
* 1945 Leonard Frank Spath
Leonard Frank Spath FRS (20 October 1882 – 2 March 1957) was a British geologist specialising in malacology and ammonitology.
Education
Spath gained a Bachelor of Science degree in geology at Birkbeck College in 1912 and obtained emplo ...
* 1946 Robert Heron Rastall
* 1947 Stanley Smith
* 1948 Arthur Hubert Cox
Arthur is a common male given name of Brythonic origin. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. The etymology is disputed. It may derive from the Celtic ''Artos'' meaning “Bear”. Another theory, more w ...
* 1949 William Joscelyn Arkell
William Joscelyn Arkell FGS, FRS (9 June 1904 – 18 April 1958) was a British geologist and palaeontologist, regarded as the leading authority on the Jurassic Period during the middle part of the 20th century.
Childhood
Arkell was born in Hi ...
* 1950 Samuel James Shand
Prof Samuel James Shand (1882–1957) was a British mineralogist and petrologist, specialising in silicate analysis and igneous petrology.
Life
He was born in Edinburgh on 29 October 1882 the son of James Shand (1851–1929), originally from ...
* 1951 William Dixon West
* 1952 Alfred Kingsley Wells
* 1953 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman (20 May 1902 – 18 February 1974) was a British palaeontologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge.
Early life
Oliver Bulman was born in Chelsea to artist Henry Herbert Bul ...
* 1954 John Baird Simpson
Dr John Baird Simpson FRSE FGS (January 14, 1894 – June 28, 1960), was a Scottish geologist. He was President of the Edinburgh Geological Society 1950-52 and was awarded the Lyell Medal by the Geological Society of London in 1954.
Life
Sim ...
* 1955 Wilfred Norman Edwards
* 1956 Leslie Reginald Cox
Leslie Reginald Cox FRS (22 November 1897, Islington – 5 August 1965) was an English palaeontologist and malacologist.
Education
Cox was born to parents who worked as government servants, in the Post Office telephone engineers' department. Wh ...
* 1957 Stephen Henry Straw
* 1958 Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
* 1959 David Williams
* 1960 Doris Reynolds
Doris Livesey Reynolds (also known by her married name Doris Holmes) Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Geological Society of London, FGS (1 July 1899 – 10 October 1985) was a British geologist, best known for her work on metasomatism in rocks ...
* 1961 John Vernon Harrison
John Vernon Harrison FRSE FGS (1892-1972) was a British structural geologist, explorer and cartographer.
Life
He was born to British parents in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 16 March 1892. His father was John Frederick Harrison, a ci ...
* 1962 Lawrence Wager
Lawrence Rickard Wager, commonly known as Bill Wager, (5 February 1904 – 20 November 1965) was a British geologist, explorer and mountaineer, described as "one of the finest geological thinkers of his generation"Vincent and best remembered for ...
* 1963 Neville George
* 1964 Dorothy Hill
Dorothy Hill, (10 September 1907 – 23 April 1997) was an Australian geologist and palaeontologist, the first female professor at an Australian university, and the first female president of the Australian Academy of Science.
Education
Doroth ...
* 1965 Charles Findlay Davidson
* 1966 Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff
* 1967 William Quarrier Kennedy
* 1968 Maurice Black
Maurice Black (January 14, 1891 – January 18, 1938) was an American character actor known for his portrayal of mobsters. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1928 to 1938, when he died of pneumonia, four days after his 47th birthday. ...
* 1969 Francis John Turner
Francis John Turner (10 April 1904 – 21 December 1985) was a New Zealand geologist. He received his BSc and MSc from the Auckland University College. He worked with the New Zealand Geological Survey and in 1926 he became a geology lecturer in ...
* 1970 Frederick Henry Stewart
Sir Frederick Henry Stewart (16 January 1916 – 9 December 2001) was a Scottish geologist and academic who was a professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Background
He was born in Aberdeen on 16 January 1916, the son of Frederick Robert St ...
* 1971 Percival Allen
Percival Allen FRS (15 March 1917 – 3 April 2008) was a British geologist. Served as Professor and Head of Department at Reading from 1952 and became an Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 1982. He was awarded an honorary DSc in 1992.
...
* 1972 Alec Westley Skempton
* 1973 Janet Vida Watson
Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS (1923–1985) was a British geologist. She was a professor of Geology at Imperial College, a rapporteur for the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) (1977–1982) and a vice president of the Roy ...
* 1974 Martin Fritz Glaessner
* 1975 Dorothy Helen Rayner
Dorothy Helen Rayner (3 February 1912 – 31 December 2003) was a British geologist who became an authority on the stratigraphy of the British Isles while working at University of Leeds. In 1975 she was awarded the prestigious Lyell Medal from ...
* 1976 Walter Brian Harland
* 1977 Bernard Elgey Leake
* 1978 Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst (21 March 1920, Chelsea, London – 24 May 2006, Derwen Dêg Fawr, North Wales) was a British geologist, known as a leading expert on the diagenesis of carbonate sediments.
Biography
During WW II, Robin G. C. Bathurs ...
* 1979 Derek Victor Ager
* 1980 John Robert Lawrence Allen
* 1981 William Stuart McKerrow
* 1982 George P. L. Walker
George Patrick Leonard Walker (2 March 1926 – 17 January 2005) was a British geologist who began his career studying mineralogy and later made significant contributions to volcanology.
He was widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern ...
* 1983 John Frederick Dewey
John Frederick Dewey FRS (born 22 May 1937) 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. He is widely regarded as an authority on th ...
* 1984 Douglas James Sheannan
* 1985 John Douglas Hudson
* 1986 Harry Blackmore Whittington
Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS (24 March 1916 – 20 June 2010) was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna. His works are largely responsible for the conce ...
* 1987 Nicholas John Shackleton
Sir Nicholas John Shackleton (23 June 1937 – 24 January 2006) was an English geologist and paleoclimatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the son of the distinguished field geologist Robert Millner Shackleton and great- ...
* 1988 Richard Gilbert West
Richard Gilbert West FRS (31 May 1926 – 30 December 2020) was a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist. He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went t ...
* 1989 John Michael "Jake" Hancock
* 1990 Anthony Hallam
Anthony Hallam, aka Tony Hallam, (23 December 1933 – 23 October 2017) was a British geologist, palaeontologist and writer. His research interests concentrated on the Jurassic Period, with particular reference to stratigraphy, sea level c ...
* 1991 John Imbrie
John Imbrie (July 4, 1925 – May 13, 2016) was an American paleoceanographer best known for his work on the theory of ice ages. He was the grandson of William Imbrie, an American missionary to Japan.
After serving with the 10th Mountain ...
* 1992 Alfred G. Fischer
* 1993 Michael Robert Leeder
* 1994 William Gilbert Chaloner
William Gilbert Chaloner FRS (22 November 1928 – 13 October 2016) was a British palaeobotanist. He was Professor of Botany in the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Professor in Earth Sciences ...
* 1995 Robert Keith O'Nions
* 1996 Richard Allen Fortey
* 1997 Richard Barrie Rickards
* 1998 Simon Conway Morris
Simon Conway Morris (born 1951) is an English palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and astrobiologist known for his study of the fossils of the Burgess Shale and the Cambrian explosion. The results of these discoveries were celebrated in ...
* 1999 Ernest Henry Rutter
* 2000 Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs
21st century
* 2001 Paul Tapponnier Paul Tapponnier (born 6 January 1947 in Annecy) is a French geologist, specializing in plate tectonics and crustal deformation.
Education and career
Tapponnier graduated in 1970 with an M.S. in geology from the École Nationale Supérieure des Min ...
* 2002 Andrew Smith
* 2003 Harry Elderfield
Professor Henry "Harry" Elderfield One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (25 April 1943 – 19 April 2016), was Professor of Ocean Chemistry and Palaeochemistry at the Godwin Laborat ...
* 2004 Dianne Edwards
Professor Dianne Edwards CBE, FRS, FRSE, FLS, FLSW (born 1942) is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.
Early life
Edwards was born in Swansea, South Wales, and spent much of he ...
* 2005 Michael James Benton
* 2006 Geoffrey Boulton
Geoffrey Stewart Boulton (born 28 November 1940) is a British geoscientist, and Regius Professor Emeritus of the University of Edinburgh.
He was awarded the 2006 Lyell Medal, by the Geological Society.
He was awarded the 2011 James Croll Medal. ...
* 2007 Phillip Allen
* 2008 Alan Gilbert Smith
* 2009 Nick McCave
Ian Nicholas McCave (born 3 February 1941) is a British geologist, who was the Woodwardian Professor of Geology at the University of Cambridge Department of Earth Sciences from 1985 to 2008 and a fellow of St John's College from 1986 to present ...
* 2010 William Ruddiman
William F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Ruddiman earned an undergraduate degree in geology in 1964 at Williams College, and a Ph.D. in marine geology from Columbia University in 1969. Rud ...
* 2011 Christopher Paola
* 2012 Eric Wolff
Eric William Wolff, FRS (born 5 June 1957) is a British climatologist, glaciologist, and academic. Since 2013, he has been Royal Society Research Professor of Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
...
* 2013 Paula Reimer
* 2014 Martin Brasier
* 2015 Colin Ballantyne
* 2016 John R. Underhill
John R. Underhill (born 5 January 1961) is Professor of Stratigraphy and Director of the Centre for Energy Transition at Aberdeen University, Scotland. He was a football referee in the Scottish Premier League, until mandatory age retiral in ...
The Geological Society website list of winners
Retrieved 28 March 2016
* 2017
Rosalind Rickaby
* 2018
Julian A. Dowdeswell
Julian A. Dowdeswell (born 18 November 1957) is a British glaciologist and a Professor of Physical Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, and from 2002-2021 was the Director of the Scott Polar Research Institut ...
* 2019
Nicholas Kusznir
* 2020
Rachel Wood
See also
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List of geology awards
This list of geology awards is an index to articles on notable awards for geology, an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time. Geology can also include the ...
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Prizes named after people
A prize is an award to be given to a person or a group of people (such as sporting teams and organizations) to recognize and reward their actions and achievements.
References
External links
The Geological Society website list of winners
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Geology awards
Awards of the Geological Society of London
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British science and technology awards
Awards established in 1876
1876 establishments in England