Alexander Agassiz Medal
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The Alexander Agassiz Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for an original contribution in the science of oceanography. It was established by Sir John Murray in honor of his friend Alexander Agassiz.
[edit] Recipients
- 1913: Joan San Nicolas
- 1918: Albert I, Prince of Monaco
- 1920: Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee
- 1924: Otto S. Pettersson
- 1926: Wilhelm Bjerknes
- 1927: Max Weber
- 1928: Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- 1929: J. Stanley Gardiner
- 1930: Johannes Schmidt
- 1931: Henry B. Bigelow
- 1932: Albert Defant
- 1933: Bjorn Helland-Hansen
- 1934: Haakon H. Gran
- 1935: Martin Knudsen
- 1935: T. Wayland Vaughan
- 1937: Edgar J. Allen
- 1938: Harald Sverdrup
- 1939: Frank R. Lillie
- 1942: Columbus Iselin
- 1946: Joseph Proudman
- 1947: Felix A. Vening Meinesz
- 1948: Thomas G. Thompson
- 1951: Harry A. Marmer
- 1952: H. W. Harvey
- 1954: Maurice Ewing
- 1955: Alfred C. Redfield
- 1959: Martin W. Johnson
- 1960: Anton F. Bruun
- 1962: George Deacon
- 1963: Roger R. Revelle
- 1965: Sir Edward Bullard
- 1966: Carl H. Eckart
- 1969: Frederick C. Fuglister
- 1972: Seiya Uyeda
- 1973: John H. Steele
- 1976: Walter H. Munk
- 1979: Henry Stommel
- 1986: Wallace S. Broecker
- 1989: Cesare Emiliani
- 1992: Joseph L. Reid
- 1995: Victor V. Vacquier
- 1998: Walter C. Pitman, III
- 2001: Charles S. Cox
- 2004: Klaus Wyrtki
- 2007: James R. Ledwell
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