Bigsby Medal

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Bigsby Medal

HONORS

Awarded by the Geological Society of London:

In 1877 Dr. Bigsby gave to the Society a sum of Ł200, the interest of which was to be devoted to providing a medal to be given biennially, preferentially to one who had studied American Geology, "as an acknowledgment of eminent services in any department of Geology, irrespective of the receiver's country; but he must not be older than 45 years at his last birthday, thus probably not too old for further work, and not too young to have done much." The medal is struck in gold.

Awarded annually starting in 2005.

1877 Othniel Charles Marsh

1879 Edward Drinker Cope

1881 Charles Barrois

1883 Henry Hicks

1885 Alphonse Renard

1887 Charles Lapworth

1889 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall

1891 George Mercer Dawson

1893 William Johnson Sollas

1895 Charles Doolittle Walcott

1897 Clement Reid

1899 Edgeworth David

1901 George William Lamplugh

1903 Henri-Marc Ami

1905 John Walter Gregory

1907 Arthur William Rogers

1909 John Smith Flett

1911 Othenio Abel

1913 Thomas Henry Holland

1915 Henry Hubert Hayden

1917 Robert George Carruthers

1919 Douglas Mawson

1921 Lewis Leigh Fermor

1923 Edward Battersby Bailey

1925 Cyril Workman Knight

1927 Bernard Smith

1929 Percy George Hamnall Boswell

1931 Norman Levi Bowen

1933 Edward James Wayland

1935 Herbert Harold Read

1937 Cecil Edgar Tilley

1939 Arthur Elijah Trueman

1941 Cyril James Stubblefield

1943 George Martin Lees

1945 Lawrence Rickard Wager

1947 George Hoole Mitchell

1949 William Quarrier Kennedy

1951 Edwin Sherbon Hills

1953 Kingsley Charles Dunham

1955 Percy Edward Kent

1957 Harry Blackmore Whittington

1959 Basil Charles King

1961 Alwyn Williams

1963 Wallace Spencer Pitcher

1965 Janet Vida Watson

1965 John Sutton

1967 Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes

1969 Richard Gilbert West

1971 Frederick Vine

1973 John Graham Ramsay

1975 Drummond Matthews

1977 Brian Frederick Windley

1979 Ernest Ronald Oxburgh

1981 Alan Gilbert Smith

1983 Robert Keith O'Nions

1985 Stephen Sparks

1987 Nick Kuznir

1989 Trevor Elliott

1991 Robert Stephen White

1993 Julian Anthony Pearce

1995 Andrew Benjamin Smith

1997 James Anthony Jackson

1999 Ali Mehmet Celal Sengor

2001 Nicholas Jeremiah White

2003 Paul Nicholas Pearson

2005 Jonathan Blundy

2006 Jonathan Lloyd

2007 Philip Donoghue

2008 Christopher John Ballentine

2009 Christian Turney

2010 Sara Russell

2011 Alexander Logan Densmore

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