Lyell Medal

The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal. This medal is awarded based on one Earth Scientist's exceptional contribution of research to the scientific community. It is named after Charles Lyell.

Lyell Medalists

Source: Geological Society

19th century

1876 John Morris
1877 James Hector
1878 George Busk
1879 Edmond Hebert
1880 John Evans
1881 John William Dawson
1882 John Lycett
1883 William Benjamin Carpenter
1884 Joseph Leidy
1885 Harry Govier Seeley
1886 William Pengelly
1887 Samuel Allport
1888 Henry Alleyne Nicholson
1889 William Boyd Dawkins
1890 Thomas Rupert Jones
1891 Thomas McKenny Hughes
1892 George Highfield Morton
1893 Edwin Tulley Newton
1894 John Milne
1895 John Frederick Blake
1896 Arthur Smith Woodward
1897 George Jennings Hinde
1898 Wilhelm Waagen
1899 Charles Alexander McMahon
1900 John Edward Marr^[1]

20th century

21st century

2001 Paul Tapponnier
2002 Andrew Smith
2003 Harry Elderfield
2004 Dianne Edwards
2005 Michael James Benton
2006 Geoffrey Boulton
2007 Phillip Allen
2008 Alan Gilbert Smith
2009 Nick McCave
2010 William Ruddiman
2011 Christopher Paola
2012 Eric Wolff
2013 Paula Reimer
2014 Martin Brasier
2015 Colin Ballantyne
2016 John R. Underhill^[4]
2017 Rosalind Rickaby
2018 Julian A. Dowdeswell
2019 Nicholas Kusznir
2020 Rachel Wood
2021 Nicholas White
2022 William B. F. Ryan
2023 Peter Clift

References

^ "The Geological Society of London". The Times. No. 36070. London. 20 February 1900. p. 5.
^ "The Geological Society of London". The Times. No. 36974. London. 10 January 1903. p. 6.
^ Mary R. S. Creese, ‘Reid , Eleanor Mary (1860–1953)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 accessed 6 October 2015
^ The Geological Society website list of winners, Retrieved 28 March 2016