The Seligman Crystal is an award of the
International Glaciological Society
The International Glaciological Society (IGS) was founded in 1936 to provide a focus for individuals interested in glaciology, practical and scientific aspects of snow and ice. It was originally known as the "Association for the Study of Snow an ...
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The prize is "awarded from time to time to one who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to glaciology so that the subject is now enriched"
and named after
Gerald Seligman.
Recipients
Source
International Glaciological Society*
Gerald Seligman (1963)
* H. Bader (1967)
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J.F. Nye (1969)
* John W. Glen (1972)
* B. L. Hansen (1972)
* S. Evans (1974)
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Willi Dansgaard
Willi Dansgaard (30 August 1922 – 8 January 2011) was a Denmark, Danish paleoclimatologist. He was Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at the University of Copenhagen and a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, the Royal Swedi ...
(1976)
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W. B. Kamb (1977)
* Marcel de Quervain (1982)
* William Osgood Field, Jr (1983)
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Johannes Weertman (1983)
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Mark F. Meier (1985)
* Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1986)
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Hans Oeschger Hans Oeschger (2 April 1927, Ottenbach, Switzerland, Ottenbach – 25 December 1998, Bern) was a Swiss climatologist. He founded the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in 1963 and was ...
(1989)
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W. F. Weeks (1989)
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Charles R. Bentley
Charles Raymond Bentley (December 23, 1929 – August 19, 2017) was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Su ...
(1990)
* Akira Higashi (1990)
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Hans Röthlisberger (1992)
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Louis Lliboutry (1993)
* Anthony J. Gow (1995)
* William F. Budd (1996)
* Sigfús J. Johnsen (1997)
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Claude Lorius
Lorius (born 1932) is a French glaciologist. He is director emeritus of research at CNRS. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988.
He has taken part in more than 20 po ...
(1998)
* Charles F. Raymond (1999)
* S.C. Colbeck (2000)
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Geoffrey S. Boulton (2001)
* Garry K. C. Clarke (2001)
* Kolumban Hutter (2003)
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Richard Alley (2005)
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Lonnie G. Thompson
Lonnie Thompson (born July 1, 1948), is an American paleoclimatologist and university professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Ohio State University. He has achieved global recognition for his drilling and analysis of ice cores from ice caps ...
(2007)
* Paul A. Mayewski (2009)
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Almut Iken (2011)
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David E. Sugden (2012)
* Paul Duval (2013)
* Richard C.A. Hindmarsh (2019)
* Douglas R. MacAyeal (2019)
* Andrew C. Fowler (2020)
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Catherine Ritz (2020)
* Adrian Jenkins (2021)
See also
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List of earth sciences awards
This list of earth sciences awards is an index to articles on notable awards for earth sciences, or natural science related to the planet Earth. It includes awards for meteorology, oceanography and paleontology, but excludes awards for environmenta ...
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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 th ...
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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
Glaciology
Earth sciences awards
Awards established in 1962
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