Murchison Award
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The Murchison Award was first given by the Royal Geographical Society
in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years.
Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society is a British learned society founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences...
in 1882 for publications judged to have contributed most to geographical science in preceding recent years.
Recipients
- 1895 Eivind Astrup
- 1898 Herbert Warrington SmythHerbert Warrington SmythHerbert Warington Smyth CMG, LLM, FGS, FRGS, was a British traveller, writer, naval officer and mining engineer who served the government of Siam and held several important posts in the Union of South Africa....
- 1920 Maria CzaplickaMaria CzaplickaMaria Antonina Czaplicka , also referred to as Marya Antonina Czaplicka and Marie Antoinette Czaplicka, was a Polish cultural anthropologist who is best known for her ethnography of Siberian shamanism...
- 1942 Sidney William WooldridgeSidney William WooldridgeProfessor Sidney William Wooldridge CBE, FRS, FGS , geologist, geomorphologist and geographer, was a pioneer in the study of the geomorphology of south-east England and the first professor of geography at King's College London...
and David Leslie LintonDavid Leslie LintonProfessor David Leslie Linton , British geographer and geomorphologist, was professor of geography at Sheffield and Birmingham, best remembered for his work on the landscape development of south-east England with S.W.Wooldridge, and on the development of tors.-Early life and education:David Linton... - 1970 I R Bishop
- 1971 Professor J W House
- 1972 Professor Emeritus W Gordon East
- 1973 Professor W B Fisher
- 1974 Professor H H LambHubert LambHubert Horace Lamb was an English climatologist who founded the Climatic Research Unit in 1972 in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia.-Career:...
- 1975 Professor Akin L Mabogunje
- 1976 Professor Emeritus W G Hoskins CBE FBA
- 1977 Mr Harold Fullard
- 1978 Professor Kenneth Walton
- 1979 Professor Eila Campbell
- 1980 Mr Clive Jermy
- 1981 Professor C Kidson
- 1982 Dr R J Bennett
- 1983 Professor Richard Lawton
- 1984 Professor Stanley Gregory
- 1985 Ron J. JohnstonRon J. JohnstonRonald John Johnston, OBE, AcSS, FBA is a British human geographer, noted for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography...
- 1986 Mr David Bickmore
- 1987 Professor Monica Cole
- 1988 Dr. Roger Tomlinson
- 1989 Professor Emeritus Vernon Forbes
- 1990 Professor Jim Rose
- 1991 Mr Peter Clark
- 1992 Professor William Buttiker
- 1993 Professor Paul Claval
- 1994 Dr Andrew Warren
- 1995 Professor Frank Oldfield
- 1996 Professor Ronald A Dodgshon
- 1997 Professor Anne Buttimer
- 1998 Professor Susan Smith
- 1999 Professor Robert Woods
- 2000 Professor Felix Driver
- 2001 Ann Shirley
- 2002 Professor David WoodwardDavid WoodwardDavid Woodward was an English-born American historian of cartography and cartographer.- Biography :Woodward was born in Royal Leamington Spa, England. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Manchester, England, he came to the United States to study cartography under Arthur H....
- 2003 Professor David Smith
- 2004 Dr Tom Spencer
- 2005 Dr Clive Oppenheimer
- 2006 Professor Tony Gatrell
- 2007 not awarded
- 2008 Professor Neil Wrigley
- 2009 Professor Jenny Robinson
- 2010 Professor Gerry Kearns
- 2011 Professor Stuart Elden