Price Medal is a medal of the

Royal Astronomical Society The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charitable organisation, charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, planetary science, solar-system science, geophysics and closely related branches of science. Its ...

, for investigations of outstanding merit in solid-earth

geophysics Geophysics () is a subject of natural science concerned with the physical processes and Physical property, properties of Earth and its surrounding space environment, and the use of quantitative methods for their analysis. Geophysicists conduct i ...

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, or

planetary sciences Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their f ...

. The medal is named after Albert Thomas Price. It was first awarded in 1994 and was initially given every three years. In 2005 this switched to every two years, and from 2014 it has been awarded every year.

Price Medallists

Source
Royal Astronomical Society
(unless otherwise noted) * 1994

J.A. Jacobs John Arthur “Jack” Jacobs (13 April 1916 – 13 December 2003) was a British geophysicist and mathematician, whose primary area of research was geomagnetism. He worked at multiple universities in Canada and the UK, and was awarded the Gold ...

* 1997 Catherine Constable * 2000 Jean-Louis Le Mouël * 2003 Y. Kaminde * 2005 Gillian Foulger * 2007

Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before Presidency of Andrew Jackson, his presidency, he rose to fame as a general in the U.S. Army and served in both houses ...

* 2009 Malcolm Sambridge * 2011 Roger Searle * 2013

Kathryn Whaler Kathryn Anne "Kathy" Whaler Order of the British Empire, OBE Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE American Geophysical Union#Fellowships, FAGU (born 11 June 1956) is a professor of geophysics at the University of Edinburgh School of G ...

* 2014 Seth Stein * 2015

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* 2016 John Tarduno * 2017 Richard Holme * 2018 Stuart Crampin * 2019 Catherine Johnson * 2020 Phil Livermore * 2021 Emily Brodsky * 2022 Hrvoje Tkalcic * 2023 Rhian Jones * 2024 Chris Davies

References

{{Royal Astronomical Society Awards of the Royal Astronomical Society Awards established in 1994 1994 establishments in the United Kingdom Geophysics awards

Price Medallists

See also

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