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Wollaston Medal

HONOR

Awarded by the Geological Society of London, to "geologists who have had a significant influence by means of a substantial body of excellent research in either or both pure and applied aspects of the science." Funded with a bequest by William Hyde Wollaston.

1831
William Smith  
1835
Gideon Mantell  
1836
Louis Agassiz  
1837
Proby Thomas Cautley  
1837
Hugh Falconer  
1838
Sir Richard Owen  
1839
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg  
1840
Andre Hubert Dumont  
1841
Adolphe Theodore Brongniart  
1842
Leopold von Buch  
1843
Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont  
1843
Pierre Armand Dufrenoy  
1844
William Conybeare  
1845
John Phillips  
1846
William Lonsdale  
1847
Ami Boué  
1848
William Buckland  
1849
Joseph Prestwich  
1850
William Hopkins  
1851
Adam Sedgwick  
1852
William Henry Fitton  
1853
Adolphe d'Archiac  
1853
Edouard de Verneuil  
1854
Richard John Griffith  
1855
Henry de la Beche  
1856
William Edmond Logan  
1857
Joachim Barrande  
1858
Hermann von Meyer  
1859
Charles Darwin  
1860
Searles Valentine Wood  
1861
Heinrich Georg Bronn  
1862
Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen  
1863
Gustav Bischof  
1864
Roderick Murchison  
1865
Thomas Davidson  
1866
Charles Lyell  
1867
George Poulett Scrope  
1868
Carl Friedrich Naumann  
1869
Henry Clifton Sorby  
1870
Gerard Paul Deshayes  
1871
Andrew Ramsay  
1872
James Dwight Dana  
1873
Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton  
1874
Oswald Heer  
1875
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck  
1876
Thomas Henry Huxley  
1877
Robert Mallet  
1878
Thomas Wright  
1879
Bernhard Studer  
1880
Auguste Daubree  
1881
Peter Martin Duncan  
1882
Franz Ritter von Hauer  
1883
William Thomas Blanford  
1884
Albert Jean Gaudry  
1885
George Busk  
1886
Alfred Des Cloizeaux  
1887
John Whitaker Hulke  
1888
Henry Benedict Medlicott  
1889
Thomas George Bonney  
1890
William Crawford Williamson  
1891
John Wesley Judd  
1892
Ferdinand von Richthofen  
1893
Nevil Story Maskelyne  
1894
Karl Alfred von Zittel  
1895
Archibald Geikie  
1896
Eduard Suess  
1897
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston  
1898
Ferdinand Zirkel  
1899
Charles Lapworth  
1900
Grove Karl Gilbert  
1901
Charles Barrois  
1902
Friedrich Schmidt  
1903
Heinrich Rosenbusch  
1904
Albert Heim  
1905
Jethro Justinian Harris Teall  
1906
Henry Woodward  
1907
William Johnson Sollas  
1908
Paul Heinrich von Groth  
1909
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward  
1910
William Berryman Scott  
1911
Waldemar Christopher Brøgger  
1912
Lazarus Fletcher  
1913
Osmond Fisher  
1914
John Edward Marr  
1915
(Tannatt William) Edgeworth David  
1916
Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky  
1917
(Francois Antoine) Alfred Lacroix  
1918
Charles Doolittle Walcott  
1919
Aubrey Strahan  
1920
Gerard Jacob De Geer  
1921
Benjamin Neeve Peach  
1921
John Horne  
1922
Alfred Harker  
1923
William Whitaker  
1924
Arthur Smith Woodward  
1925
George William Lamplugh  
1926
Henry Fairfield Osborn  
1927
William Whitehead Watts  
1928
Dukinfield Henry Scott  
1929
Friedrich Johann Karl Becke  
1930
Albert Charles Seward  
1931
Arthur William Rogers  
1932
Johan Herman Lie Vogt  
1933
Marcelin Boule  
1934
Henry Alexander Miers  
1935
John Smith Flett  
1936
Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff  
1937
Waldemar Lindgren  
1938
Maurice Lugeon  
1939
Frank Dawson Adams  
1940
Henry Woods  
1941
Arthur Louis Day  
1942
Reginald Aldworth Daly  
1943
Aleksandr Evgenevich Fersmann  
1944
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt  
1945
Owen Thomas Jones  
1946
Emanuel de Margerie  
1947
Joseph Burr Tyrrell  
1948
Edward Battersby Bailey  
1949
Robert Broom  
1950
Norman Levi Bowen  
1951
Olaf Holtedahl  
1952
Herbert Harold Read  
1953
Erik Stensiö  
1954
Leonard Johnston Wills  
1955
Arthur Elijah Trueman  
1956
Arthur Holmes  
1957
Paul Fourmarier  
1958
Penti Eskola  
1959
Pierre Pruvost  
1960
Cecil Edgar Tilley  
1961
Roman Kozlowski  
1962
Leonard Hawkes  
1963
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz  
1964
Harold Jeffreys  
1965
David Meredith Seares Watson  
1966
Francis Edward Shepard  
1967
Edward Crisp Bullard  
1968
Raymond Cecil Moore  
1969
William Maurice Ewing  
1970
Philip Henry Kuenen  
1971
Ralph Alger Bagnold  
1972
Hans Ramberg  
1973
Alfred Sherwood Romer  
1974
Francis John Pettijohn  
1975
Hollis Dow Hedberg  
1976
Kingsley Charles Dunham  
1977
Reinout William van Bemmelen  
1978
John Tuzo Wilson  
1979
Hatton Schuyler Yoder  
1980
Augusto Gansser  
1981
Robert Minard Garrels  
1982
Peter John Wyllie  
1983
Dan Peter McKenzie  
1984
Kenneth J. Hsu  
1985
Gerald Joseph Wasserburg  
1986
John Graham Ramsay  
1987
Claude Jean Allègre  
1988
Alfred Ringwood  
1989
Drummond Matthews  
1990
Wallace S. Broecker  
1991
Xavier Le Pichon  
1992
Martin Harold Phillips Bott  
1993
Samuel Epstein  
1994
William Jason Morgan  
1995
George Patrick Leonard Walker  
1996
Nicholas John Shackleton  
1997
Douglas James Shearman  
1998
Karl Karekin Turekian  
1999
John Frederick Dewey  
2000
William Sefton Fyfe  
2001
Harry Blackmore Whittington  
2002
Rudolf Trumpy  
2003
Ikuo Kushiro  
2004
Geoffrey Eglinton  



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