Linnean Medal
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The Linnean Medal of the Linnean Society of London
was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and is for the preceding years often referred to as "the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society".
Linnean Society of London
The Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...
was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and is for the preceding years often referred to as "the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society".
19th century
- 1888: Sir Joseph D. HookerJoseph Dalton HookerSir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM, GCSI, CB, MD, FRS was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century. Hooker was a founder of geographical botany, and Charles Darwin's closest friend...
and Sir Richard OwenRichard OwenSir Richard Owen, FRS KCB was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist.Owen is probably best remembered today for coining the word Dinosauria and for his outspoken opposition to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection... - 1889: Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de CandolleAlphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de CandolleAlphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle , was a French-Swiss botanist, the son of the Swiss botanist A. P. de Candolle....
- 1890: Thomas Henry Huxley
- 1891: Jean Baptiste Édouard Bornet
- 1892: Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace, OM, FRS was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist...
- 1893: Daniel OliverDaniel OliverDaniel Oliver, FRS was a British botanist.He was Librarian of the Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1860–1890 and Keeper there from 1864–1890, and Professor of Botany at University College, London from 1861–1888....
- 1894: Ernst HaeckelErnst HaeckelThe "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...
- 1895: Ferdinand Julius Cohn
- 1896: George James AllmanGeorge James AllmanGeorge James Allman FRS , M.D., Emeritus Professor of Natural History in Edinburgh, was an eminent Irish naturalist.-Life:...
- 1897: Jacob Georg AgardhJacob Georg AgardhJacob Georg Agardh was a Swedish botanist, phycologist, and taxonomist.-Biography:He was the son of Carl Adolph Agardh, and in 1854 was appointed professor of botany at Lund University...
- 1898: George Charles WallichGeorge Charles WallichGeorge Charles Wallich was a British medical doctor and marine biologist. He was the son of the Danish naturalist Nathaniel Wallich. He won the Linnean Medal.- External links :*http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=2932&inst_id=20...
- 1899: John Gilbert BakerJohn Gilbert BakerJohn Gilbert Baker was an English botanist.Baker was born in Guisborough, the son of John and Mary Baker and educated at Quaker schools in Ackworth and York....
- 1900: Alfred NewtonAlfred NewtonAlfred Newton FRS was an English zoologist and ornithologist.Newton was Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Cambridge University from 1866 to 1907...
20th century
- 1901: Sir George KingGeorge King (botanist)Sir George King , was a British botanist appointed superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta in 1871, and the first Director of the Botanical Survey of India from 1890. King was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1901....
- 1902: Albert von KöllikerAlbert von KöllikerAlbert von Kölliker was a Swiss anatomist and physiologist.-Biography:Albert Kölliker was born in Zurich, Switzerland. His early education was carried on in Zurich, and he entered the university there in 1836...
- 1903: Mordecai Cubitt CookeMordecai Cubitt CookeMordecai Cubitt Cooke was an English botanist and mycologist.Cooke came from a mercantile family in Horning, Norfolk, and worked as an apprentice to a fabric merchant before becoming a clerk in a law firm, but his chief interest was in botany. He founded the Society of Amateur Botanists in 1862...
- 1904: Albert C. L. G. GüntherAlbert C. L. G. GüntherAlbert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther FRS, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther , was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist....
- 1905: Eduard StrasburgerEduard StrasburgerEduard Adolf Strasburger was a German professor who was one of the most famous botanists of the 19th century....
- 1906: Alfred Merle NormanAlfred Merle NormanAlfred Merle Norman was an English clergyman and naturalist.-Early life:Norman was born in Exeter, England in 1831. His father was a landowner, surgeon and Deputy-Lieutenant of Somerset. He studied the molluscs and plants of Somerset at young age. He studied at Winchester College from 1844 to 1848...
- 1907: Melchior TreubMelchior TreubMelchior Treub was a Dutch botanist who was born in Voorschoten. In 1873 he graduated from the University of Leiden, and afterwards remained in Leiden as a botanical assistant. From 1880 until 1909 he was a botanist in the Dutch East Indies.Treub is remembered for his botanical work with tropical...
- 1908: Thomas Roscoe Rede StebbingThomas Roscoe Rede StebbingThe Reverend Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing F.R.S., F.L.S. was a British zoologist, who described himself as "a serf to natural history, principally employed about Crustacea". Educated in London and Oxford, he only took to natural history in his thirties, having worked as a teacher until then...
- 1909: Frederick Orpen BowerFrederick Orpen BowerFrederick Orpen Bower FRS was a British botanist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1891. He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1909 and the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society in 1938....
- 1910: Georg Ossian Sars
- 1911: Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach
- 1912: R. C. L. Perkins
- 1913: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler
- 1914: Otto ButschliOtto BütschliJohann Adam Otto Bütschli was a German zoologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg. He specialized in invertebrates and insect development...
- 1915: Joseph Henry Maiden
- 1916: Frank Evers BeddardFrank Evers BeddardFrank Evers Beddard FRS was a British zoologist. He won the Linnean Medal in 1916 for his book on oligochaetes.Beddard was born in Dudley, educated at Harrow and studied at New College, Oxford. He was naturalist to the Challenger Expedition Commission from 1882 to 1884...
- 1917: Henry Brougham Guppy
- 1918: Frederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane GodmanFrederick DuCane Godman D.C.L., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S., F.Z.S., M.R.I., F.R.H.S., M.B.O.U. was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist....
- 1919: Sir Isaac Bayley BalfourIsaac Bayley BalfourSir Isaac Bayley Balfour FRS FRSE was a Scottish botanist. He was the son of John Hutton Balfour who was also a botanist.-Biography:...
- 1920: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
- 1921: Dukinfield Henry ScottDukinfield Henry ScottDukinfield Henry Scott FRS was a British botanist.The architect Sir George Gilbert Scott was his father...
- 1922: Sir Edward Bagnall PoultonEdward Bagnall PoultonSir Edward Bagnall Poulton, FRS was a British evolutionary biologist who was a lifelong advocate of natural selection...
- 1923: Thomas Frederic CheesemanThomas Frederic CheesemanThomas Frederick Cheeseman was a New Zealand botanist and also a naturalist who had a wide-ranging interest in natural history, such that he even described a few species of sea slugs, marine gastropod molluscs.- Biography :...
- 1924: William Carmichael McIntoshWilliam Carmichael McIntoshWilliam Carmichael McIntosh, FRS was a Scottish physician and marine zoologist. His medical qualification was granted in 1860 by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, following study at Edinburgh University...
- 1925: Francis Wall OliverFrancis Wall OliverFrancis Wall Oliver FRS was a British botanist. He was Quain Professor of Botany at University College London 1890-1925 and then Professor of Botany at the University of Cairo 1929–1935. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. He was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1925.- References :...
- 1926: Edgar Johnson AllenEdgar Johnson AllenEdgar Johnson Allen FRS was a British marine biologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1914 and won the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1926 and the Royal Society's Darwin Medal in 1936....
- 1927: Otto StapfOtto StapfOtto Stapf FRS was an Austrian born botanist and taxonomist.Stapf trained in Vienna, moving to Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1890. He was keeper of the Herbarium from 1909 to 1920...
- 1928: Edmund Beecher WilsonEdmund Beecher WilsonEdmund Beecher Wilson was a pioneering American zoologist and geneticist. He wrote one of the most famous textbooks in the history of modern biology, The Cell.- Career :...
- 1929: Hugo de VriesHugo de VriesHugo Marie de Vries ForMemRS was a Dutch botanist and one of the first geneticists. He is known chiefly for suggesting the concept of genes, rediscovering the laws of heredity in the 1890s while unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, for introducing the term "mutation", and for developing a mutation...
- 1930: James Peter HillJames Peter HillJames Peter Hill was a British embryologist.Born in Edinburgh he gained a DSc at Edinburgh University but went to Australia in 1892. In Australia he formed with a group dubbed "The Fraternity of Duckmaloi" that did studies on the platypus and was named for a noted "hunting ground" for the animal....
- 1931: Karl Ritter von Goebel
- 1932: Edwin Stephen GoodrichEdwin Stephen GoodrichEdwin Stephen Goodrich , was an English zoologist, specialising in comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and evolution. He held the Linacre Chair of Zoology in the University of Oxford from 1921 to 1946...
- 1933: Robert Hippolyte ChodatRobert Hippolyte ChodatRobert Hippolyte Chodat was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva....
- 1934: Sir Sidney Frederic HarmerSidney Frederic HarmerSir Sidney Frederic Harmer was a British zoologist. He was President of the Linnean Society 1927-1931 and was awarded the Linnean Medal in 1934....
- 1935: Sir David PrainDavid PrainSir David Prain FRS was a Scottish botanist.-Biography:Prain was born to a saddler in Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland and studied at the local Parish Schhool and the University of Aberdeen. He taught for two years at Ramsgate College and then returned to Scotland to enter the University of...
- 1936: John Stanley GardinerJohn Stanley GardinerJohn Stanley Gardiner FRS was a British zoologist and oceanographer.He was born in Belfast in 1872. His research career began in 1896 when he took part in the Royal Society's expedition to Funafuti atoll in the South Pacific ; from then onwards he was recognized as an authority on the distribution...
- 1937: Frederick Frost Blackman
- 1938: Sir D'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonD'Arcy Wentworth ThompsonSir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist, he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917 book On Growth and Form, written largely in Dundee in 1915...
- 1939: Elmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew MerrillElmer Drew Merrill was an American botanist, specializing in the flora of the Asia-Pacific region.He was born in East Auburn, Maine, and attended the University of Maine where he received a B.S. in 1898...
- 1940: Sir Arthur Smith WoodwardArthur Smith WoodwardSir Arthur Smith Woodward was an English palaeontologist.-Biography:Woodward was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England and was educated there and at Owens College, Manchester. He joined the staff of the Department of Geology at the Natural History Museum in 1882. He became assistant Keeper of...
- 1941: Sir Arthur George TansleyArthur TansleySir Arthur George Tansley FRS was an English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of ecology. He obtained his degree in Biological Science in 1896, with specialization in botany and zoology. From the start, he was much influenced by the Danish plant ecologist Eugenius Warming. He championed...
- 1942: Award suspended
- 1946: William Thomas CalmanWilliam Thomas CalmanWilliam Thomas Calman was a Scottish zoologist, specialising in the Crustacea.He was born in Dundee, studying at the High School. In the scientific societies in the city, he met D'Arcy Thompson. He later became Thompson's lab boy, which allowed him to attend lectures at University College, Dundee...
and Frederick Ernest WeissFrederick Ernest WeissFrederick Ernest Weiss FRS FLS VMH was an Anglo-German botanist.He was awarded the Victoria Medal of Honour in 1947.- References :... - 1947: Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery
- 1948: Agnes ArberAgnes ArberAgnes Robertson Arber was a renowned British plant morphologist and anatomist, historian of botany and philosopher of biology. She was born in London but lived most of her life in Cambridge, including the last 51 years of her life...
- 1949: D. M. S. Watson
- 1950: Henry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas RidleyHenry Nicholas Ridley CMG , MA , FRS, FLS, F.R.H.S. was an English botanist and geologist.Born at West Harling Hall, Norfolk, England...
- 1951: Theodor Mortensen
- 1952: Isaac Henry BurkillIsaac Henry BurkillIsaac Henry Burkill was an English botanist.Educated at Repton School and Caius College, Cambridge, Burkill served as Assistant in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew from 1897 to 1899. In 1912 he succeeded H. N. Ridley as Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore...
- 1953: Patrick Alfred Buxton
- 1954: Felix Eugene Fritsch
- 1955: Sir John Graham KerrJohn Graham KerrSir John Graham Kerr was a Scottish embryologist and Unionist Member of Parliament . He is best known for his studies of the embryology of lungfishes.Born in Hertfordshire to Scottish parents, Kerr was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh, but...
- 1956: William Henry LangWilliam Henry LangWilliam Henry Lang FRS was a British botanist. The son of Thomas Lang, a medical practitioner, Lang was educated at Dennistoun public school in Glasgow before being accepted into the University of Glasgow, where he graduated with a Bsc in botany and zoology in 1894...
- 1957: Erik StensiöErik StensiöErik Helge Osvald Stensiö was a Swedish paleozoologist.Erik Andersson, as his original name was, was born in the village of Stensjö in Döderhult parish in Kalmar County; he later took his new surname from his place of origin and is occasionally referred to with both names...
- 1958: Sir Gavin de BeerGavin de BeerSir Gavin Rylands de Beer FRS was a British evolutionary embryologist. He was Director of the British Museum , President of the Linnean Society, and received the Royal Society's Darwin Medal for his studies on evolution.-Biography:...
and William Bertram TurrillWilliam Bertram TurrillWilliam Bertram Turrill OBE was an English botanist.He was born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire to William Banbury and Thirza Mary Turrill and educated at the Woodstock National School... - 1959: H. M. Fox and Carl SkottsbergCarl SkottsbergCarl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.Skottsberg was born in Karlshamn, began his academic studies at Uppsala University in 1898 and received his doctorate and a docentship there in 1907...
- 1960: Libbie H. Hyman and Hugh Hamshaw ThomasHugh Hamshaw ThomasHugh Hamshaw "Ham" Thomas, MBE, FRS, FLS, , was a British paleobotanist.He was born in Wrexham the son of J.T. Thomas and educated at Grove Park School, Wrexham and Downing College, Cambridge .He became a university lecturer in Botany and a Fellow of the college. He was also curator of the museum...
- 1961: Edmund W. Mason and Sir Frederick Stratten RussellFrederick Stratten RussellSir Frederick Stratten Russell was an English marine biologist.Russell was born in Bridport, Dorset, and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University. From 1924 he worked for the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth, becoming its director in 1945.Russell studied the life...
- 1962: Norman L. Bor and George Gaylord SimpsonGeorge Gaylord SimpsonGeorge Gaylord Simpson was an American paleontologist. Simpson was perhaps the most influential paleontologist of the twentieth century, and a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution , The meaning of evolution and The major features of...
- 1963: Sidnie M. Manton and William H. Pearsall
- 1964: Richard E. Holttum and Carl Frederick Abel Pantin
- 1965: John HutchinsonJohn Hutchinson (botanist)John Hutchinson, OBE, FRS was a renowned English botanist, taxonomist and author.-Life and career:...
and John RamsbottomJohn Ramsbottom (mycologist)John Ramsbottom was a British mycologist.He was Keeper of Botany at the British Museum . He served as general secretary and twice as president of the British Mycological Society, and was long editor of its Transactions. He was president of the Linnean Society from 1937 to 1940 and was awarded... - 1966: G. S. CarterG. S. CarterMajor Gordon Senior 'Toby' Carter DSO was a New Zealand surveyor and road engineer who worked in Sarawak, Borneo prior to World War II for Shell Oil...
and Sir Harry GodwinHarry GodwinSir Harry Godwin FRS, was a prominent English botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge.-Early life:... - 1967: Charles Sutherland EltonCharles Sutherland EltonCharles Sutherland Elton FRS was an English zoologist and animal ecologist. His name is associated with the establishment of modern population and community ecology, including studies of invasive organisms.-Personal life:...
and Charles E. Hubbard - 1968: A. Gragan and T. M. Harris
- 1969: Irene MantonIrene MantonIrene Manton, FRS was a British botanist. She was noted for study of ferns, algae and bums.-Biography:...
and Ethelwynn Trewavas - 1970: E. J. H. CornerE. J. H. CornerEdred John Henry Corner FRS was a botanist who occupied the posts of assistant director at the Singapore Botanic Gardens and Professor of Tropical Botany at the University of Cambridge...
and Errol I. White - 1971: Charles R. Metcalfe and J. E. Smith
- 1972: A. R. Clapham and A. S. Romer
- 1973: G. Ledyard StebbinsG. Ledyard StebbinsGeorge Ledyard Stebbins, Jr. was an American botanist and geneticist who is widely regarded as one of the leading evolutionary biologists of the 20th century. Stebbins received his Ph.D. in botany from Harvard University in 1931. He went on to the University of California, Berkeley, where his work...
and John.Z.YoungJohn Zachary YoungJohn Zachary Young FRS , generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one of the most influential biologists of the 20th century ..... - 1974: E. H. W. Hennig and Josias Braun-BlanquetJosias Braun-BlanquetJosias Braun-Blanquet was an influential phytosociologist and botanist. Braun-Blanquet was born in Chur, Switzerland and died in Montpellier, France.-Phytosociology:...
- 1975: A. S. WattAlexander WattAlexander Stuart Watt was a Scottish botanist and plant ecologist.-Life:Watt was born on an Aberdeenshire farm and went to school at Turriff Secondary School and Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. He graduated as M.A. and B.Sc. from the University of Aberdeen in 1913...
and Philip M Sheppard - 1976: William Thomas Stearn
- 1977: Ernst MayrErnst MayrErnst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...
and Thomas G. Tutin - 1978: Olav K. H. Hedberg and Thomas Stanley WestollThomas Stanley WestollThomas Stanley Westoll, FRS FRSE, FGS was the long-time head of the Department of Geology at Newcastle University.-Education and career:He was born in West Hartlepool and educated at the local grammar school...
- 1979: R. McN. Alexander and P. W. Richards
- 1980: Geoffrey Clough AinsworthGeoffrey Clough AinsworthGeoffrey Clough Ainsworth was a British mycologist and scientific historian.- Education and work :...
and Roy CrowsonRoy CrowsonRoy Albert Crowson was a British biologist who specialized in the taxonomy of beetles.He lectured at the Zoology Department of the University of Glasgow from 1949. He collected beetles and their larvae from around the world and studied the relationships between them... - 1981: Brian Laurence BurttBrian Laurence BurttBrian Laurence Burtt , was an English botanist and taxonomist who is noted for his contributions to the family Gesneriaceae...
and Sir Cyril Astley ClarkeCyril ClarkeSir Cyril Astley Clarke KBE, FRCP, FRCOG, FRC Path, FRS was a British physician, geneticist and lepidopterist... - 1982: P. H. Davis and Peter H. Greenwood
- 1983: Cecil T. Ingold and M. J. D. White
- 1984: John G. Hawkes and J. S. Kennedy
- 1985: Arthur CainArthur CainArthur James Cain FRS was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989.- Life :...
and Jeffrey B. Harborne - 1986: Arthur CronquistArthur CronquistArthur John Cronquist was a North American botanist and a specialist on Compositae. He is considered one of the most influential botanists of the 20th century, largely due to his formulation of the Cronquist system. Two plant genera in the aster family have been named in his honor...
and Percy C. C. Garnham - 1987: Geoffrey Fryer and V. H. Heywood
- 1988: John L. Harley and Sir Richard Southward
- 1989: William Donald HamiltonW. D. HamiltonWilliam Donald Hamilton FRS was a British evolutionary biologist, widely recognised as one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century....
and Sir David SmithDavid Smith (botanist)Professor Sir David Cecil Smith FRS FRSE was the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1987 to 1994, and President of Wolfson College, Oxford.... - 1990: Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance and F. Gwendolen ReesF. Gwendolen ReesFlorence Gwendolen Rees, FRS was a British zoologist and parasitologist. Her career was at the Zoology Department of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she held positions of Assistant Lecturer , Lecturer , Senior Lecturer , Reader and Professor , becoming Professor Emeritus in...
- 1991: William Gilbert ChalonerWilliam Gilbert ChalonerProfessor William Gilbert Chaloner FRS is a distinguished British paleobotanist. He is Emeritus Professor of Botany in the Earth Sciences Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Visiting Professor in Earth Sciences at University College, London.-Life:Chaloner was born in Chelsea,...
and R. M. May - 1992: Richard Evans SchultesRichard Evans SchultesRichard Evans Schultes may be considered the father of modern ethnobotany, for his studies of indigenous peoples' uses of plants, including especially entheogenic or hallucinogenic plants , for his lifelong collaborations with chemists, and...
and Stephen Jay GouldStephen Jay GouldStephen Jay Gould was an American paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and historian of science. He was also one of the most influential and widely read writers of popular science of his generation.... - 1993: Barbara Pickersgill and L. P. Brower
- 1994: F. E. Round and Sir Alec John JeffreysAlec JeffreysSir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
- 1995: S. M. WaltersMax WaltersDr Max Walters was a British botanist and academic. As a conscientious objector in the Second World War, he worked as a hospital orderly in Sheffield and Bristol...
and John Maynard SmithJohn Maynard SmithJohn Maynard Smith,His surname was Maynard Smith, not Smith, nor was it hyphenated. F.R.S. was a British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Originally an aeronautical engineer during the Second World War, he took a second degree in genetics under the well-known biologist J.B.S.... - 1996: Jack Heslop-HarrisonJack Heslop-HarrisonJohn "Jack" Heslop-Harrison FRS FAAAS was a British soldier and botanist.-Early life and education:He was born in Middlesbrough to John William Heslop-Harrison and his wife Christian Henderson, the last of three children...
and K. Vickerman - 1997: Enrico S. Coen and Rosemary Helen Lowe-McConnell
- 1998: Mark W. Chase and C. PattersonColin Patterson (biologist)Colin Patterson FRS , was a paleontologist at the British Museum who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school....
- 1999: Philip Barry Tomlinson and Q. Bone
- 2000: Bernard VerdcourtBernard VerdcourtBernard Verdcourt was a biologist and taxonomist, most widely known as a botanist and latterly an Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. Prior to coming to Kew in 1964, he was associated with the East African Herbarium for 15 years...
and Michael F. Claridge
21st century
- 2001: Chris HumphriesChris HumphriesChris Humphries was a British botanist known for his work on systematic botany and biogeography.In 1980 he was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society. In 2001 the Linnean Society of London awarded him the Linnean Medal for his contributions to the botany....
and Gareth J. Nelson - 2002: Sherwin CarlquistSherwin CarlquistSherwin Carlquist is an American botanist and photographer. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1952 and a Ph.D. in botany in 1956, also at Berkeley. Carlquist did a postdoctoral study at Harvard University from 1955 to 1956. After his postdoctoral...
and William J. Kennedy - 2003: Pieter Baas and Bryan Campbell Clarke
- 2004: Geoffrey Allen Boxshall and John DransfieldJohn DransfieldJohn Dransfield is an honorary research fellow and former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom, as well as being an authority on the phylogenetic classification of palms....
- 2005: Paula Rudall and Andrew Smith
- 2006: David MabberleyDavid MabberleyProfessor Dr. David John Mabberley, , is a botanist, educator and writer. Among his varied interests is the taxonomy of tropical plants, especially trees of the families Labiatae, Meliaceae and Rutaceae. He is perhaps best known for his plant dictionary The plant-book. A portable dictionary of the...
and Richard A. Fortey - 2007: Phil Cribb and Thomas Cavalier-SmithThomas Cavalier-SmithProfessor Thomas Cavalier-Smith , FRS, FRSC, NERC Professorial Fellow, is a Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology, at the University of Oxford...
- 2008: Jeffrey Duckett and Stephen Donovan
- 2009: Peter Shaw AshtonPeter Shaw AshtonPeter Shaw Ashton is a British botanist. He is Charles Bullard Professor of Forestry at Harvard University, and director of the Arnold Arboretum there from 1978 to 1987....
and Michael AkamMichael AkamMichael Edwin Akam FRS is a British zoologist. He is professorial fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, and Director, University Museum of Zoology.He was Damon Runyan fellow at Stanford University, from 1979 to 1981.... - 2010: Dianne EdwardsDianne EdwardsDianne Edwards CBE ScD FRSE FLSW FRS is a palaeobotanist, who studies the colonisation of land by plants, and early land plant interactions.-Career:...
and Derek YaldenDerek YaldenDr Derek William Yalden, B.Sc., Ph.D. is a zoologist and an Honorary Reader at the University of Manchester.After obtaining a 1st Class B.Sc. University College London in 1962, he completed his PhD on carpal bones in mammals at Royal Holloway College, under Prof. P. M. Butler, in 1965... - 2011: Brian Coppins and H. Charles Godfray
External links
- The Linnean Medal at the website of the Linnean Society of LondonLinnean Society of LondonThe Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...