Bigsby Medal
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The Bigsby Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London
established by John Jeremiah Bigsby
. It is awarded for the study of American
geology and recipients must be under 45 years of age.
Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"...
established by John Jeremiah Bigsby
John Jeremiah Bigsby
John Jeremiah Bigsby , English geologist and physician, the son of Dr. John Bigsby, was born at Nottingham on the 14th of August 1792....
. It is awarded for the study of American
Americas
The Americas, or America , are lands in the Western hemisphere, also known as the New World. In English, the plural form the Americas is often used to refer to the landmasses of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions, while the singular form America is primarily...
geology and recipients must be under 45 years of age.
Bigsby Medalists
List of Medallists- 1877 Othniel Charles MarshOthniel Charles MarshOthniel Charles Marsh was an American paleontologist. Marsh was one of the preeminent scientists in the field; the discovery or description of dozens of news species and theories on the origins of birds are among his legacies.Born into a modest family, Marsh was able to afford higher education...
- 1879 Edward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker CopeEdward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist, as well as a noted herpetologist and ichthyologist. Born to a wealthy Quaker family, Cope distinguished himself as a child prodigy interested in science; he published his first scientific paper at the age of nineteen...
- 1881 Charles BarroisCharles BarroisCharles Barrois was a French geologist and palaeontologist.Barrois was born at Lille and educated at the college in that town, where he studied geology under Professor Jules Gosselet...
- 1883 Henry HicksHenry Hicks (geologist)Henry Hicks, MRCS, FRS was a Welsh physician, surgeon, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons , geologist, President of the Geological Society and Fellow of the Royal Society...
- 1885 Alphonse Renard
- 1887 Charles LapworthCharles LapworthCharles Lapworth was an English geologist.-Biography:He was born at Faringdon in Berkshire and educated as a teacher at the Culham Diocesan Training College near Abingdon, Oxfordshire. He moved to the Scottish border region, where he investigated the previously little-known fossil fauna of the area...
- 1889 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
- 1891 George Mercer DawsonGeorge Mercer DawsonDr. George Mercer Dawson F.R.S., C.M.G., was a Canadian scientist and surveyor. He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia, the eldest son of Sir John William Dawson, Principal of McGill University and his wife, Lady Margaret Dawson...
- 1893 William Johnson SollasWilliam Johnson SollasWilliam Johnson Sollas FRS was a British geologist and anthropologist. After studying at the City of London School, the Royal College of Chemistry and the Royal School of Mines he matriculated to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded First Class Honours in geology...
- 1895 Charles Doolittle WalcottCharles Doolittle WalcottCharles Doolittle Walcott was an American invertebrate paleontologist. He became known for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...
- 1897 Clement ReidClement ReidClement Reid FRS was a British geologist and palaeobotanist.He was born in London in 1853. His great uncle was Michael Faraday. His family circumstances meant he was largely self-taught but he was nonetheless able to join the Geological Survey of Great Britain in 1874 and be employed in drawing up...
- 1899 Edgeworth DavidEdgeworth DavidSir Tannatt William Edgeworth David KBE, DSO, FRS, was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. A household name in his lifetime, David's most significant achievements were discovering the major Hunter Valley coalfield in New South Wales and leading the first expedition to reach the...
- 1901 George William LamplughGeorge William LamplughGeorge William Lamplugh was a British geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905 and won the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society in 1925.-References:...
- 1903 Henri-Marc AmiHenri-Marc AmiHenri-Marc Ami was a French Canadian archaeologist responsible for the initial excavation of Combe-Capelle from the years of 1926 until his death in 1931.In 1900 he was elected to the Royal Society of Canada....
- 1905 John Walter GregoryJohn Walter GregoryJohn Walter Gregory, FRS, was a British geologist and explorer, known principally for his work on glacial geology and on the geography and geology of Australia and East Africa.-Early life:...
- 1907 Arthur William Rogers
- 1909 John Smith FlettJohn Smith FlettSir John Smith Flett KBE FRS was a Scottish geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1913, received the Bolitho Medal of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall in 1917, made KBE in 1925 and won the Wollaston Medal in 1935.In the mid 1970s, the then new, glass-faced structure...
- 1911 Othenio Abel
- 1913 Thomas Henry HollandThomas Henry HollandSir Thomas Henry Holland KCSI KCIE FRS was a British geologist and educational administrator.Thomas Holland was born in Helston, Cornwall. In 1884, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Science, graduating with a first class degree in Geology...
- 1915 Henry Hubert Hayden
- 1917 Robert George Carruthers
- 1919 Douglas MawsonDouglas MawsonSir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...
- 1921 Lewis Leigh FermorLewis Leigh FermorSir Lewis Leigh Fermor OBE FRS was an English geologist and the first president of the Indian National Science Academy...
- 1923 Edward Battersby BaileyEdward Battersby BaileySir Edward Battersby Bailey FRS was an English geologist.Bailey was born in Marsden, Kent, and educated at Kendal grammar school and Clare College, Cambridge. He gained first-class honours in both parts one and two of the natural sciences tripos...
- 1925 Cyril Workman Knight
- 1927 Bernard SmithBernard Smith"Father" Bernard Smith was a German-born master organ maker in England in the late seventeenth century.Smith served his apprenticeship in Germany before emigrating to England in 1667. He built an organ for the Chapel Royal and, in 1681, became the king's organ maker...
- 1929 Percy George Hamnall BoswellPercy George Hamnall BoswellProfessor Percy George Hamnall Boswell FRS was a British geologist.He was Professor of Geology at Liverpool University and Head of the Department of Geology at the Imperial College of Science, London. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May, 1931...
- 1931 Norman Levi Bowen
- 1933 Edward James Wayland
- 1935 Herbert Harold ReadHerbert Harold ReadHerbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College...
- 1937 Cecil Edgar TilleyCecil Edgar TilleyCecil Edgar Tilley FRS was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist.He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife Catherine Jane...
- 1939 Arthur Elijah TruemanArthur Elijah TruemanSir Arthur Elijah Trueman, FRS, was a British geologist.-Early life and career:Trueman was born in Nottingham, son of Elijah and Thirza Trueman. He was educated at High Pavement School, Nottingham, leaving in 1911 to become student teacher at Huntington Street School, Nottingham...
- 1941 Cyril James StubblefieldCyril James StubblefieldSir James Stubblefield FRS was a British geologist. Stubblefield was the President of the Geological Society of London from 1958 to 1960 and was the Director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain from 1960 until 1966.-Early life:...
- 1943 George Martin LeesGeorge Martin LeesGeorge Martin Lees Military Cross DFC FRS was a British soldier, geologist and leading authority on the geology of the Middle East.-Early life and military service:...
- 1945 Lawrence Rickard Wager
- 1947 George Hoole Mitchell
- 1949 William Quarrier Kennedy
- 1951 Edwin Sherbon HillsEdwin Sherbon HillsEdwin Sherbon Hills CBE was an Australian geologist, a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and at the time of his death was regarded as one of Australia's "most eminent scientists and most accomplished geologists".Hills grew in the Melbourne suburb Carlton...
- 1953 Kingsley Charles DunhamKingsley Charles DunhamSir Kingsley Charles Dunham FRS was one of the leading British geologists and mineralogists of the 20th century. He was a Professor of Geology at the University of Durham from 1950-71. He was later Professor Emeritus from 1967-2001...
- 1955 Percy Edward KentPercy Edward KentPercy Edward Kent PhD, DSc, LLD, ScD, FGS, FRS was a British geologist who won the Royal Medal in 1971.-Early life:...
- 1957 Harry Blackmore Whittington
- 1959 Basil Charles King
- 1961 Alwyn WilliamsAlwyn WilliamsAlwyn Terrell Petre Williams was Bishop of Durham and then Bishop of Winchester ....
- 1963 Wallace Spencer PitcherWallace Spencer Pitcher-Career:Pitcher was born in London and became interested in fossils in childhood. At 17 he started work as an assistant assayer, attending college part-time to study for a degree in Chemistry and Geology at Chelsea College, London, graduating after war service in 1947.Professor Herbert Harold Read...
- 1965 John Sutton
- 1965 Janet Vida WatsonJanet Vida WatsonProfessor Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS was a British geologist. She was the first woman to become president of the Geological Society of London.-Early life:...
- 1967 Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes
- 1969 Richard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert WestRichard Gilbert West FRS is a British botanist, geologist and palaeontologist.He began his career at the age of 18 in 1944 when he joined the Army and spent time in India. On return to England, he went to Clare College, Cambridge in 1948 taking Botany and Geology at Part I...
- 1971 Frederick John Vine
- 1973 John Graham RamsayJohn Graham RamsayJohn Graham Ramsay is a British structural geologist. He went to Imperial College London and became a full professor in 1966. In the following year he published his first book, Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, which garnered him attention in structural geology...
- 1975 Drummond Hoyle Matthews
- 1977 Brian Frederick Windley
- 1979 Ernest Ronald Oxburgh
- 1981 Alan Gilbert Smith
- 1983 Robert Keith O'Nions
- 1985 Stephen SparksSteve Sparks (volcanologist)Robert Stephen John Sparks, FRS, CBE , is Chaning Wills Professor of Geology in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. He is one of the world's leading volcanologists and has been widely recognised for his work in this field.-Career:Steve Sparks is a graduate of Imperial...
- 1987 Nick Kuznir
- 1989 Trevor Elliott
- 1991 Robert Stephen White
- 1993 Julian Anthony Pearce
- 1995 Andrew Benjamin Smith
- 1997 James Anthony Jackson
- 1999 Ali Mehmet Celal Sengor
- 2001 Nicholas Jeremiah White
- 2003 Paul Nicholas Pearson
- 2005 Jonathan BlundyJon BlundyJonathan David Blundy FRS , is Professor of Petrology, in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. -Life:...
- 2006 Jonathan Lloyd
- 2007 Philip DonoghuePhilip DonoghuePhilip Conrad Donoghue is a British palaeontologist, Reader in Geology at the University of Bristol.- Selected publications :Donoghue, P. C. J., and M. A. Purnell. 2005. Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 20:312-319.Donoghue, P. C. J., S....
- 2008 Christopher John Ballentine
- 2009 Christian Turney
- 2010 Sara Russell
- 2011 Alexander Logan Densmore