Hubbard Medal
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The Hubbard Medal is awarded by the National Geographic Society for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research. The medal is named for Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first National Geographic Society president.
The Hubbard Medal has been presented 34 times. [1]
[edit] Recipients
- Robert Peary - 1906
- Roald Amundsen - 1907
- Capt. Robert Bartlett - 1909
- Sir Ernest Shackleton - 1910
- Richard E. Byrd - 1926
- Charles Lindbergh - 1927
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh - 1934
- British Mt. Everest Expedition - 1954 (group award) [2]
- Paul Allen Siple - 1958
- John Glenn - 1962
- Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey - 1962
- Norman G. Dyhenfurth - 1963 [3]
- Jim Whittaker - 1963
- Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins - 1970
- John Young and Robert Crippen - 1981 [4]
- Frank Borman [5]
- Richard Leakey - 1994
- Jane Goodall - 1995 [6]
- Robert Ballard - 1996 [7]
- Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones - 1999
- Matthew Henson - 2000 [8]
