The Murchison Fund

Award from the Geological Society of London

The Murchison Fund is an award given by the Geological Society of London to researchers under the age of 40 who have contributed substantially to the study of hard rock and tectonic geology. It is named in honour of Prof. Roderick Impey Murchison.

Recipients

Source: Murchison Fund, The Geological Society

2020 Alexander Dunhill
2019 Jonathan Pownall
2018 George Cooper
2017 Sami Mikhail
2016 Craig Magee
2015 Sebastian Watt^[1]
2014 Katherine Joy
2013 Alison Rust
2012 Russell Wynn
2011 Sarah Sherlock
2010 No award made
2009 Howard Falcon-Lang
2008 Arwen Deuss
2007 Glenn Milne
2006 Dougal Jerram
2005 Peter Clift
2004 Kenneth McCaffrey
2003 No award made
2002 Philip Donoghue
2001 No award made
2000 No award made
1999 Nick Petford
1998 Jonathan David Blundy
1997 Timothy Harvey Druitt
1996 Marian Barbara Holness
1995 Timothy Holland
1994 Graham Barry Shimmield
1993 Michael Anthony Lovell
1992 Kenneth Ronald McClay
1991 Donald Herbert William Hutton
1990 D G Smith
1989 A Mackenzie
1988 A D Saunders
1987 Richard J. Howarth
1986 Colin McClellan Graham
1985 Jane Anne Plant
1984 Nigel Howard Woodcock
1983 Geoffrey Charles Brown
1982 Richard Barrie Rickards
1981 Andrew Harry Gordon Mitchell
1980 Michael Peter Coward
1979 John Tamey
1978 William David Ian Rolfe
1977 John Charles Mowbray Taylor
1976 Anthony Leonard Harris
1975 Richard Curtis Selley
1974 Denys Barker Smith
1973 Frank Moseley
1972 Harold Gamar Reading
1971 John Frederick Dewey
1970 Arthur Clive Bishop
1969 Anthony Hallam
1968 Ronald Keith Harrison
1967 Frederick Weir Dunning
1966 John G. Ramsay
1965 Isles Strachan
1964 Rupert William Roye Rutland
1963 Edward Howel Francis
1962 Frank Hodson
1961 Jack Ineson
1960 Derek Victor Ager
1959 Desmond Thomas Donovan
1958 Geoffrey Bond
1957 John Weaver Pallister
1956 William Walker Black
1955 Raymond Casey
1954 Nancy Kirk
1953 Cameron Darrell Ovey
1952 Norman Leslie Falcon
1951 Thomas Deans
1950 Henry Dighton Thomas
1949 Stuart Olof Agrell
1948 Frederick Wolverson Cope
1947 Duncan Leitch
1946 Alan Wood
1945 William Alexander Deer
1944 Gerald Murray Stockley
1943 Arthur George Davis
1942 Kingsley Charles Dunham
1941 John Weir
1940 Archibald Gordon MacGregor
1939 Arthur Lennox Coulson
1938 Frank Coles Philips
1937 Stephen Henry Straw
1936 Emily Dix
1935 John Vernon Harrison
1934 J. Wilfrid Jackson
1933 Talbot Haes Whitehead
1932 Alfred Kingsley Wells
1931 Cyril James Stubblefield
1930 John Smith
1929 Leslie Reginald Cox
1928 George Slater
1927 Sidney H. Haughton
1926 William Sawney Bisat
1925 Arthur Elijah Trueman
1924 Leonard Frank Spath
1923 Thomas H Withers
1922 Herbert Bolton
1921 Albert Gilligan
1920 David Woolacott
1919 Eleanor Mary Reid^[1]
1918 Thomas Crook
1917 William Mackie
1916 George Walter Tyrrell
1915 David Cledlyn Evans
1914 Frederick Nairn Haward
1913 Ernest E L Dixon
1912 Arthur Morley Davies
1911 Edgar Sterling Cobbold
1910 John Walker Sather
1909 James Vincent Elsden
1908 Ethel Gertrude Skeat
1907 Felix Oswald
1906 Herbert Lapworth
1905 Herbert Lister Bowman
1904 Arthur Hutchinson
1903 Elizabeth Gray^[2]
1902 Thomas Henry Holland^[3]
1901 Thomas Sergeant Hall
1900 A. Vaughan Jennings
1899 James Bennie
1898 Jane Longstaff
1897 Sydney S. Buckman
1896 Phillip Lake
1895 Albert Seward
1894 George Barrow
1893 Griffith John Williams
1892 Beeby Thomas
1891 Richard Baron
1890 Edward B. Wethered
1889 Grenville Cole
1888 Edward Wilson
1887 Robert Kidston
1886 Clement Reid^[1]
1885 Horace B. Woodward
1884 Martin Simpson
1883 John Young
1882 Thomas Rupert Jones
1881 Frank Rutley
1880 Robert Etheridge
1879 James Walker Kirkby
1878 Charles Lapworth
1877 John F. Blake
1876 James Croll
1875 Harry Seeley
1874 Ralph Tate
1874 Alfred Bell
1873 Oswald Heer^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Geological Society, Retrieved 6 October 2015
^ "The Geological Society of London". The Times. No. 36974. London. 10 January 1903. p. 6.
^ "The Geological Society of London". The Times. No. 36699. London. 24 February 1902. p. 6.