Lyell Medal

The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal, awarded on the basis of research to an Earth Scientist of exceptional quality. It is named after Charles Lyell.

Lyell Medalists

19th century

1876 John Morris
1877 James Hector
1878 George Busk
1879 Edmond Hebert
1880 John Evans
1881 John William Dawson
1882 John Lycett
1883 William Benjamin Carpenter
1884 Joseph Leidy
1885 Harry Govier Seeley
1886 William Pengelly
1887 Samuel Allport

1888 Henry Alleyne Nicholson
1889 William Boyd Dawkins
1890 Thomas Rupert Jones
1891 Thomas McKenny Hughes
1892 George Highfield Morton
1893 Edwin Tulley Newton
1894 John Milne
1895 John Frederick Blake
1896 Arthur Smith Woodward
1897 George Jennings Hinde
1898 Wilhelm Waagen
1899 Charles Alexander McMahon
1900 John Edward Marr

20th century

1901 Ramsay Heatley Traquair
1902 Antonin Fritsch
1902 Richard Lydekker
1903 Frederick William Rudler
1904 Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
1905 Hans Reusch
1906 Frank Dawson Adams
1907 (John) Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
1908 Richard Dixon Oldham
1909 Percy Fry Kendall
1910 Arthur Vaughan
1911 Francis Arthur Bather
1911 Arthur Walton Rowe
1912 Philip Lake
1913 Sydney Savory Buckman
1914 Charles Stewart Middlemiss
1915 Edmund Johnston Garwood
1916 Charles William Andrews
1917 Wheelton Hind
1918 Henry Woods
1919 William Fraser Hume
1920 Edward Greenly
1921 Emmanuel de Margerie
1922 Charles Davison
1923 Gustave Frédéric Dollfus
1924 William Wickham King
1925 John Frederick Norman Green
1926 Owen Thomas Jones
1927 Albert Ernest Kitson
1928 Sidney Hugh Reynolds
1928 William Dickson Lang
1929 Arthur Morley Davies
1930 Frederick Chapman
1930 Herbert Brantwood Maufe
1931 Ernest Clayton Andrews

1932 Henry Dewey
1932 Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon
1933 James Ernest Richey
1934 Walter Howchin
1934 Frank Lorimer Kitchin
1935 D. M. S. Watson
1936 Eleanor Mary Reid
1936 Leonard Johnston Wills
1937 Linsdall Richardson
1938 John Pringle
1939 William Noel Benson
1940 Herbert Leader Hawkins
1941 Ernest Sheppard Pinfold
1942 William Sawney Bisat
1943 Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
1944 Norman Ross Junner
1945 Leonard Frank Spath
1946 Robert Heron Rastall
1947 Stanley Smith
1948 Arthur Hubert Cox
1949 William Joscelyn Arkell
1950 Samuel James Shand
1951 William Dixon West
1952 Alfred Kingsley Wells
1953 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
1954 John Baird Simpson
1955 Wilfred Norman Edwards
1956 Leslie Reginald Cox
1957 Stephen Henry Straw
1958 Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
1959 David Williams
1960 Doris Livesey Reynolds
1961 John Vernon Harrison
1962 Lawrence Rickard Wager
1963 Thomas Neville George
1964 Dorothy Hill

1965 Charles Findlay Davidson
1966 Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff
1967 William Quarrier Kennedy
1968 Maurice Black
1969 Francis John Turner
1970 Frederick Henry Stewart
1971 Percival Allen
1972 Alec Westley Skempton
1973 Janet Vida Watson
1974 Martin Fritz Glaessner
1975 Dorothy Helen Rayner
1976 Walter Brian Harland
1977 Bernard Elgey Leake
1978 Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst
1979 Derek Victor Ager
1980 John Robert Lawrence Allen
1981 William Stuart McKerrow
1982 George P. L. Walker
1983 John Frederick Dewey
1984 Douglas James Sheannan
1985 John Douglas Hudson
1986 Harry Blackmore Whittington
1987 Nicholas John Shackleton
1988 Richard Gilbert West
1989 John Michael "Jake" Hancock
1990 Anthony Hallam
1991 John Imbrie
1992 Alfred G Fischer
1993 Michael Robert Leeder
1994 William Gilbert Chaloner
1995 Robert Keith O'Nions
1996 Richard Allen Fortey
1997 Richard Barrie Rickards
1998 Simon Conway Morris
1999 Ernest Henry Rutter
2000 Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

21st century

2001 Paul Tapponnier
2002 Andrew Smith
2003 Harry Elderfield
2004 Dianne Edwards
2005 Michael James Benton
2006 Geoffrey Boulton
2007 Phillip Allen
2008 Alan Gilbert Smith
2009 Nick McCave
2010 William Ruddiman
2011 Christopher Paola
2012 Eric Wolff
2013 Paula Reimer
2014 Martin Brasier

External links

The Geological Society website list of winners