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 a ...
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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
Gerald Seligman (26 March 1886 – 21 February 1973) was the founder of the International Glaciological Society and the ''Journal of Glaciology''. He was born in London, educated at Harrow, and studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the fi ...
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Recipients
Source
International Glaciological Society*
Gerald Seligman
Gerald Seligman (26 March 1886 – 21 February 1973) was the founder of the International Glaciological Society and the ''Journal of Glaciology''. He was born in London, educated at Harrow, and studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was the fi ...
(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 (1976)
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W. B. Kamb (1977)
* Marcel de Quervain (1982)
* William Osgood Field, Jr (1983)
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Johannes Weertman
Johannes Weertman (May 11, 1925 – October 13, 2018) was an American materials scientist and geophysicist.
Biography
Born in 1925 in Fairfield, Alabama, Weertman served in the United States Marine Corps for three years. He then received from Carn ...
(1983)
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Mark F. Meier
Mark F. Meier (December 19, 1925 – November 25, 2012) was an American glaciologist who was considered a leading expert on the study of rising sea levels due to the melting of glaciers. Meier was the Director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine ...
(1985)
* Gordon de Quetteville Robin (1986)
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Hans Oeschger (1989)
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W. F. Weeks (1989)
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Charles R. Bentley (1990)
* Akira Higashi (1990)
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Hans Röthlisberger (1992)
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Louis Lliboutry
Louis Lliboutry (born 19 February 1922 in Madrid; died on 21 October 2007 in Grenoble) was a French glaciologist, geophysicist, and mountaineer. While in Chile in the early 1950s, he analysed and explained the formation of snow penitents in the ...
(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 p ...
(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 (2007)
* Paul A. Mayewski (2009)
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Almut Iken (2011)
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David E. Sugden
David Edward Sugden FRSE, FRSGS is an emeritus professor and senior research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is a glaciologist and glacial geomorphologist. His research focuses in particular on glacial and polar landforms, Antarctic ice ...
(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
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List of geology awards
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Prizes named after people
References
Glaciology
Earth sciences awards
Awards established in 1962
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