Roebling Medal
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The Roebling Medal is the highest award of the Mineralogical Society of America for scientific eminence as represented primarily by scientific publication of outstanding original research in mineralogy.[1] The award is named for Colonel Washington A. Roebling (1837-1926) who was an engineer, bridge builder, mineral collector, and significant friend of the Mineralogical Society of America.
[edit] Roebling Medal Recipients
- 1937-Charles Palache
- 1938-Waldemar T. Schaller
- 1940-Leonard James Spencer
- 1941-Esper S. Larsen Jr.
- 1945-Edward H. Kraus
- 1946-Clarence S. Ross
- 1947-Paul Niggli
- 1948-William Lawrence Bragg
- 1949-Herbert E. Merwin
- 1950-Norman L. Bowen
- 1952-Frederick E. Wright
- 1953-William F. Foshag
- 1954-Cecil Edgar Tilley
- 1955-Alexander N. Winchell
- 1956-Arthur F. Buddington
- 1957-Walter F. Hunt
- 1958-Martin J. Buerger
- 1959-Felix Machatschki
- 1960-Tom F. W. Barth
- 1961-Paul Ramdohr
- 1962-John W. Gruner
- 1963-John Frank Schairer
- 1964-Clifford Frondel
- 1965-Adolf Pabst
- 1966-Max H. Hey
- 1967-Linus Pauling
- 1968-Tei-ichi Ito
- 1969-Fritz Laves
- 1970-George W. Brindley
- 1971-J. D. H. Donnay
- 1972-Elburt F. Osborn
- 1973-George Tunell
- 1974-Ralph E. Grim
- 1975-Michael Fleischer
- 1975-O. Frank Tuttle
- 1976-Carl W. Correns
- 1977-Raimond Castaing
- 1978-James B. Thompson
- 1979-W. H. Taylor
- 1980-Dmitrii S. Korzhinskii
- 1981-Robert M. Garrels
- 1982-Joseph V. Smith
- 1983-Hans P. Eugster
- 1984-Paul B. Barton Jr.
- 1985-Francis J. Turner
- 1986-Edwin Roedder
- 1987-Gerald V. Gibbs
- 1988-Julian R. Goldsmith
- 1989-Helen D. Megaw
- 1990-Sturges W. Bailey
- 1991-E-An Zen
- 1992-Hatten S. Yoder Jr.
- 1993-Brian Harold Mason
- 1994-William A. Bassett
- 1995-William S. Fyfe
- 1996-Donald H. Lindsley
- 1997-Ian Carmichael
- 1998-C. Wayne Burnham
- 1999-Ikuo Kushiro
- 2000-Robert C. Reynolds Jr.
- 2001-Peter J. Wyllie
- 2002-Werner F. Schreyer
- 2003-Charles T. Prewitt
- 2004-Francis R. Boyd
- 2005-Ho-kwang Mao
- 2006-W. Gary Ernst
- 2007-Gordon E. Brown Jr.
- 2008-Bernard Evans
