The Mary Soper Pope Memorial Award, informally known as the Mary Soper Pope Medal, was awarded by the Cranbrook Institute of Science of Detroit, Michigan, for notable achievement in plant sciences. It was inaugurated in 1946, and the last award was in 1970. The medal itself was designed by sculptor Marshall Fredericks.

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*1946 Frans Verdoorn *1947 Charles C. Deam"Cranbrook Institute of Science Director's Papers"
Cranbrook website. Retrieved Dec. 27, 2016. *1948

William Vogt William Vogt (15 May 1902 – 11 July 1968) was an American ecologist and ornithologist, with a strong interest in both the carrying capacity and population control. He was the author of best-seller ''Road to Survival'' (1948), National Direc ...

*1949 Jens Christian Clausen, David D. Keck, and

William Hiesey William McKinley Hiesey (August 21, 1903 – August 7, 1998) was an American botanist who specialized in ecological physiology. He was notable for his collaboration with Jens Clausen and David D. Keck at Stanford University in the 1930s. In 194 ...

*1950 David D. Keck *1951 Martín Cárdenas *1952

Emma Lucy Braun E. Lucy Braun (April 19, 1889 – March 5, 1971) was a prominent botanist, ecologist, and expert on the forests of the eastern United States who was a professor of the University of Cincinnati. She was the first woman to be elected President o ...

*1954

Irving Widmer Bailey Irving Widmer Bailey (August 15, 1884 – May 16, 1967) was an American botanist known for his work in plant anatomy. Early life and education Bailey was born in 1884, in Tilton, New Hampshire to Ruth Pouter Bailey and Solon Irving Bailey. His f ...

*1959

Kenneth Neatby Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byna ...

*1962 Edmund H. Fulling *1964 Edgar T. Wherry"Edgar Theodore Wherry"
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center website. Retrieved Dec. 27, 2016. *1966

Hally Jolivette Sax Hally Delilia Mary Jolivette Sax (June 22, 1884 – March 20, 1979),''U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014'' was an American botanist known for her work on the chromosomal structure of plant species and how it is affected by radiation and ...

and Karl Sax *1969 Stanley A. Cain *1970

William Campbell Steere William Campbell Steere (1907–1989) was an American botanist known as an expert on bryophytes, especially arctic and tropical American species. Early life Steere was born November 4, 1907 in Muskegon, Michigan to a family of Irish Quakers ...

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