The Barringer Medal recognizes outstanding work in the field of impact cratering and/or work that has led to a better understanding of impact phenomena. http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/simple_template.cfm?code=home_awards The Barringer Medal and Award were established to honor the memory of D. Moreau Barringer Sr.

Daniel Barringer (geologist)

Daniel Moreau Barringer was a geologist best known as the first person to prove the existence of a meteorite crater on the Earth, the Meteor Crater in Arizona...

 and his son D. Moreau Barringer Jr. and are sponsored by the Barringer Crater Company. The medal is awarded by the Meteoritical Society

Meteoritical Society

The Meteoritical Society is a non-profit scholarly organization founded in 1933 to promote research and education in planetary science with emphasis on studies of meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the solar system.The...

. The senior Barringer was the first to seriously propose an impact origin for the crater that now bears his name.

Barringer Medal Winners

Year	Name
1984	Eugene M. Shoemaker
1985	Robert S. Dietz Robert S. Dietz Robert Sinclair Dietz was Professor of Geology at Arizona State University. Dietz was a marine geologist, geophysicist and oceanographer who conducted pioneering research along with Harry Hammond Hess concerning seafloor spreading, published as early as 1960–1961...
1986	Donald E. Gault
1987	Wolf J. von Engelgardt
1988	Michael R. Dence
1989	Virgil E. Barnes
1990	Richard A. F. Grieve
1991	Victor L. Masaitis
1992	Edward C. T. Chao Edward C. T. Chao Edward C. T. Chao was one of the founders of the field of impact metamorphism, the study of the effects of meteorite impacts on the Earth's crust....
1993	Dieter Stoffler
1994	D. W. Roddy
1995	William A. Cassidy
1996	F. Hörz
1997	T. Ahrens
1998	B. A. Ivanov
1999	H. Jay Melosh H. Jay Melosh Dr. H. Jay Melosh is an American geophysicist, renowned as an expert on impact cratering. He earned a degree in physics from Princeton University and a doctoral degree in physics and geology from Caltech in 1972. Dr. Melosh's research interests include impact craters, planetary tectonics, and the...
2000	Ralph Belknap Baldwin Ralph Belknap Baldwin Ralph Belknap Baldwin was an American planetary scientist known for his work on lunar craters, beginning in the late 1940s...
2001	Alexander T. Basilevsky
2002	Bevan M. French
2003	Graham Ryder Graham Ryder Graham Ryder was an English geologist and lunar scientist.He was educated at the University of Wales, Swansea, receiving his B.Sc. in 1970. He then earned a Ph.D. in geology from Michigan State University in 1974. His post-doctoral work was performed at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.Dr...
2004	Peter H. Schultz Peter H. Schultz Peter H. Schultz is Professor of Geological Sciences at Brown University specializing in the study of planetary geology, impact cratering on the Earth and other objects in the Solar System, and volcanic modifications of planetary surfaces...
2005	Billy P. Glass
2006	Robert M. Schmidt
2007	Christian Koeberl Christian Koeberl Christian Koeberl is a professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna, Austria, and director general of the Natural History Museum in Vienna...
2008	Frank T. Kyte
2009	Wolf Uwe Reimold
2010	William K. Hartmann William Kenneth Hartmann William K. Hartmann is a noted planetary scientist, author, and writer. He was the first to convince the scientific mainstream that the Earth had once been hit by a planet sized body , creating both the moon and the Earth's 23° tilt....
2011	Bruce F. Bohor
2012	Jan Smit