Penrose Medal
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The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America to those who advance the study of geoscience.
[edit] Award Winners
- 2005 Minze Stuiver
- 2004 W. Gary Ernst
- 2003 Peter R. Vail
- 2002 Walter Alvarez
- 2001 Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
- 2000 Robert L. Folk
- 1999 M. Gordon Wolman
- 1998 Jack E. Oliver
- 1997 John D. Bredehoeft
- 1996 John R. L. Allen
- 1995 John C. Crowell
- 1994 Luna B. Leopold
- 1993 Alfred G. Fischer
- 1992 John Frederick Dewey
- 1991 William R. Dickinson
- 1990 Norman D. Newell
- 1989 Warren Bell Hamilton
- 1988 Robert S. Dietz
- 1987 Marland P. Billings
- 1986 Laurence L. Sloss
- 1985 Rudolf Trümpy
- 1984 Donald E. White
- 1983 G. Arthur Cooper
- 1982 Aaron C. Waters
- 1981 John Rodgers
- 1980 Hollis D. Hedberg
- 1979 J Harlen Bretz
- 1978 Robert M. Garrels
- 1977 Robert P. Sharp
- 1976 Preston Cloud
- 1975 Francis J. Pettijohn
- 1974 William Maurice Ewing
- 1973 M. King Hubbert
- 1972 Wilmot H. Bradley
- 1971 Marshall Kay
- 1970 Ralph Alger Bagnold
- 1969 Francis Birch
- 1968 J. Tuzo Wilson
- 1967 Herbert Harold Read
- 1966 Harry H. Hess
- 1965 Philip Burke King
- 1964 Donnel Foster Hewett
- 1963 William Walden Rubey
- 1962 Alfred Sherwood Romer
- 1961 Philip Henry Kuenen
- 1960 Walter Herman Bucher
- 1959 Adolph Knopf
- 1958 James Gilluly
- 1957 Bruno Sander
- 1956 Arthur Holmes
- 1955 Maurice Gignoux
- 1954 Arthur Francis Buddington
- 1953 Esper S. Larsen, Jr.
- 1952 George Gaylord Simpson
- 1951 Pentti Eskola
- 1950 Morley Evans Wilson
- 1949 Wendell P. Woodring
- 1948 Hans Cloos
- 1947 Arthur Louis Day
- 1946 T. Wayland Vaughan
- 1945 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
- 1944 Bailey Willis
- 1943 No award given
- 1942 Charles Kenneth Leith
- 1941 Norman Levi Bowen
- 1940 Nelson Horatio Darton
- 1939 William Berryman Scott
- 1938 Andrew Cowper Lawson
- 1937 No award given
- 1936 Arthur Philemon Coleman
- 1935 Reginald Aldworth Daly
- 1934 Charles Schuchert
- 1933 Waldemar Lindgren
- 1932 Edward Oscar Ulrich
- 1931 William Morris Davis
- 1930 François Alfred Antoine Lacroix
- 1929 No award given
- 1928 Jakob Johannes Sederholm
- 1927 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
