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The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology and the highest award granted by the
Geological Society of London The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. It is the oldest national geological society in the world and the largest in Europe, with more than 12,000 Fellows. Fe ...
, the oldest geological society in the world. The medal is named after
William Hyde Wollaston William Hyde Wollaston (; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical elements palladium and rhodium. He also developed a way to process platinum ore into malleable i ...
, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of
gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...
(1831–1845), then
palladium Palladium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1802 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas (formally 2 Pallas), ...
, a metal discovered by Wollaston (1846–1860). It was switched to gold again from 1861 to 1929, and then back to palladium from 1930 to present.


Laureates

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Geological Society


1831–1850

*1831 William 'Strata' Smith *1835
Gideon Mantell Gideon Algernon Mantell Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, MRCS Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 February 1790 – 10 November 1852) was an English obstetrician, geologist and paleontology, palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstr ...
*1836
Louis Agassiz Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( ; ) FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Spending his early life in Switzerland, he recei ...
*1837 Proby Thomas Cautley *1837 Hugh Falconer *1838
Richard Owen Sir Richard Owen (20 July 1804 – 18 December 1892) was an English biologist, comparative anatomy, comparative anatomist and paleontology, palaeontologist. Owen is generally considered to have been an outstanding naturalist with a remarkabl ...
*1839
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...
*1840
André Hubert Dumont André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries, as well in Portugal ...
*1841 Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart *1842 Leopold von Buch *1843 Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont *1843 Pierre Armand Dufrenoy *1844 William Conybeare *1845 John Phillips *1846 William Lonsdale *1847 Ami Boué *1848
William Buckland William Buckland Doctor of Divinity, DD, Royal Society, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian, geologist and paleontology, palaeontologist. His work in the early 1820s proved that Kirkdale Cave in North Yorkshire h ...
*1849 Joseph Prestwich *1850
William Hopkins William Hopkins Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (2 February 179313 October 1866) was an English mathematician and geologist. He is famous as a private tutor of aspiring undergraduate University of Cambridge, Cambridge mathematicians, earning h ...


1851–1900

*1851 Adam Sedgwick *1852 William Henry Fitton *1853 Adolphe d'Archiac *1853 Édouard de Verneuil *1854 Richard John Griffith *1855
Henry De la Beche Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS (10 February 179613 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods. He was the ...
*1856 William Edmond Logan *1857 Joachim Barrande *1858 Hermann von Meyer *1859
Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 â€“ 19 April 1882) was an English Natural history#Before 1900, naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all speci ...
*1860 Searles Valentine Wood *1861
Heinrich Georg Bronn Heinrich Georg Bronn (3 March 1800 – 5 July 1862) was a German geologist and paleontologist. He was the first to translate Charles Darwin's '' On the Origin of Species'' into German in 1860, although not without introducing his own interpretat ...
*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 Gérard Paul Deshayes *1871 Andrew Ramsay *1872
James Dwight Dana James Dwight Dana Royal Society of London, FRS FRSE (February 12, 1813 – April 14, 1895) was an American geologist, mineralogist, volcanologist, and zoologist. He made pioneering studies of mountain-building, volcano, volcanic activity, and the ...
*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 Daubrée *1881 Peter Martin Duncan *1882 Franz Ritter von Hauer *1883
William Thomas Blanford William Thomas Blanford (7 October 183223 June 1905) was an England, English geologist and natural history, naturalist. He is best remembered as the editor of a major series on ''The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma''. Biogra ...
*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 Eduard Suess (; 20 August 1831 – 26 April 1914) was an Austrian geologist and an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for hypothesising two major former geographical features, the supercontinent Gondwana (proposed in 1861) and ...
*1897 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston *1898 Ferdinand Zirkel *1899
Charles Lapworth Charles Lapworth Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Fellow of the Geological Society, FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was a headteacher and an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordov ...
*1900 Grove Karl Gilbert


1901–1950

*1901 Charles Barrois *1902 Friedrich Schmidt *1903 Heinrich Rosenbusch *1904 Albert Heim *1905 Jethro Teall *1906 Henry Woodward *1907 William Johnson Sollas *1908 Paul Heinrich von Groth *1909 Horace Bolingbroke Woodward *1910 William Berryman Scott *1911 Waldemar Christofer Brøgger *1912 Lazarus Fletcher *1913 Osmond Fisher *1914 John Edward Marr *1915 Edgeworth David *1916 Alexander Karpinsky *1917 Alfred Lacroix *1918 Charles Doolittle Walcott *1919 Aubrey Strahan *1920 Gerard De Geer *1921 Ben Peach *1921 John Horne *1922
Alfred Harker Alfred Harker Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography. He was lecturer in petrology at the University of Cambridge for many years, a ...
*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 Seward *1931 Arthur William Rogers *1932 Johan Herman Lie Vogt *1933 Marcellin Boule *1934 Henry Alexander Miers *1935 John 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 Alexander Fersman *1944
Victor Goldschmidt Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (27 January 1888 – 20 March 1947) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the Goldschmidt Classificatio ...
*1945 Owen Thomas Jones *1946 Emmanuel de Margerie *1947 Joseph Tyrrell *1948 Edward Battersby Bailey *1949
Robert Broom Robert Broom Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 6 April 1951) was a British- South African medical doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University ...
*1950 Norman L. Bowen


1951–2000

*1951 Olaf Holtedahl *1952 Herbert Harold Read *1953 Erik Stensiö *1954 Leonard Johnston Wills *1955
Arthur Elijah Trueman Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman (26 April 1894 – 5 January 1956) was a British geologist. Life Trueman was born in Nottingham, the son of Elijah Trueman, a lacemaker, and his wife Thirza Newton Cottee. He was educated at High Pavement School in N ...
*1956 Arthur Holmes *1957 Paul Fourmarier *1958 Pentti Eskola *1959 Pierre Pruvost *1960 Cecil Edgar Tilley *1961 Roman Kozłowski *1962 Leonard Hawkes *1963 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz *1964
Harold Jeffreys Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, ''Theory of Probability'', which was first published in 1939, played an importan ...
*1965 D. M. S. Watson *1966 Francis Parker 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 J. Pettijohn *1975 Hollis Dow Hedberg *1976 Kingsley Charles Dunham *1977 Reinout Willem 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 G. Ramsay *1987 Claude Jean Allègre *1988 Alfred Ringwood *1989 Drummond Hoyle Matthews *1990 Wallace S. Broecker *1991 Xavier Le Pichon *1992 Martin Harold Phillips Bott *1993 Samuel Epstein *1994 William Jason Morgan *1995 George P. L. Walker *1996 Nicholas John Shackleton *1997 Douglas James Shearman *1998 Karl Karekin Turekian *1999 John Frederick Dewey *2000 William Sefton Fyfe


2001–

*2001 Harry Blackmore Whittington *2002 Rudolf Trümpy *2003 Ikuo Kushiro *2004 Geoffrey Eglinton *2005 Ted Irving *2006 James Lovelock *2007 Andrew Knoll *2008 Norman Sleep *2009 Paul F. Hoffman *2010 Richard H. Sibson *2011 Robert Stephen John Sparks *2012 Christopher Hawkesworth *2013 Kurt Lambeck *2014 Maureen Raymo - first woman to receive the Wollaston Medal *2015 James A. Jackson *2016 Susan L. Brantley *2017 Richard Alley *2018 Terry Plank *2019 Edward Stolper *2020 Barbara Romanowicz *2021 David D. Pollard *2022 Tanya Atwater *2023 Kathryn Whaler *2024 Trond Helge Torsvik *2025 Barbara Sherwood Lollar


See also

* List of geology awards * List of awards named after people * Geology of Great Britain


References


External links


List of Wollaston Medal Winners
{{Geological Society of London Geology awards Palladium Awards established in 1831 Awards of the Geological Society of London British science and technology awards