The Bancroft Award is an award of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; , SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguishe ...

"given for publication, instruction, and research in the earth sciences that have conspicuously contributed to public understanding and appreciation of the subject". The award was endowed in 1968 to honour her late husband by the wife of Joseph Austin Bancroft (1882–1957), formerly Dawson Professor at McGill University. It is normally awarded on a biennial basis and consists of a presentation scroll and a cash award of

CAD Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve c ...

$2,500.

Recipients

* 1968 -

John Tuzo Wilson John Tuzo Wilson (October 24, 1908 – April 15, 1993) was a Canadian geophysicist and geologist who achieved worldwide acclaim for his contributions to the theory of plate tectonics. He added the concept of ''hot spots'', a volcanic region hott ...

, FRSC * 1970 - David M. Baird, FRSC * 1975 -

E.R. Ward Neale Ernest Richard Ward Neale, (July 3, 1923 – May 20, 2008) was a Canadians, Canadian geologist. His scientific research contributed to the understanding of the large-scale structure of the northern Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian mountains ...

, FRSC * 1976 - Roger A. Blais * 1978 - Frank Kenneth North * 1980 - William W. Hutchison * 1982 - Christopher R. Barnes, FRSC * 1984 - Jack G. Souther * 1986 - Derek York, FRSC * 1990 - Steven D. Scott, FRSC * 1992 - Godfrey S. Nowlan * 1994 - Alan V. Morgan * 1996 - Dale A. Russell * 2000 - Jan Veizer, FRSC * 2002 - John J. Clague, FRSC * 2004 -

William Richard Peltier William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. ( hc(born 1943), is university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Scienc past principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Networ and the ...

, FRSC * 2006 - David J. Dunlop, FRSC * 2008 - Anthony E. Williams-Jones, FRSC * 2010 - Frank C. Hawthorne * 2014 - Guy Narbonne * 2016 - Barbara Sherwood Lollar, FRSC * 2018 -

Michel Jébrak Michel Jébrak is a Franco-Canadian geologist, academic and a researcher. He is an emeritus professor at University of Quebec’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a former Vice-Rector for Research and Creation at UQAM and holde ...

* 2020 -

Irena Creed Irena Creed is a Canadian hydrologist. She is a professor in thDepartment of Physical and Environmental Sciencesat University of Toronto Scarborough in Toronto, Canada, and was formerly the University's Vice-President for Research and Innovation, ...

, FRSC * 2022 - Sandra M. Barr * 2024 - Kurt Konhauser

References

{{Royal Society of Canada Canadian science and technology awards Royal Society of Canada Geology awards Awards established in 1968 Earth sciences Canadian academic awards

Recipients

See also

References