Prestwich Medal
The Prestwich Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London established in the will of Joseph Prestwich "to apply the accumulated annual proceeds...at the end of every three years, in providing a Gold Medal to the value of Twenty Pounds which, with the remainder of the proceeds is to be awarded... to the person or persons either male or female, and either resident in England or abroad, who shall have done well for the advancement of the Science of Geology; or, from time to time to accumulate the annual proceeds for a period not exceeding six years, and apply the said accumulated annual proceeds to some object of special research bearing on Stratigraphical or Physical Geology, to be carried out by one single individual or by a Committee; or, failing these objects, to accumulate the annual proceeds for either three or six years and devote such proceeds to such special purposes as may be decided". The money has also been used for funding publication and a library extension.
Prestwich medalists[]
Source: Geological Society
- 1903 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
- 1906 William Whitaker
- 1909
- 1912 (Library extension)
- 1915 Emile Cartailhac
- 1918 William Boyd Dawkins
- 1921 (Publications)
- 1924 (Publications)
- 1927 (Publications)
- 1930 (Publications)
- 1933 (Publications)
- 1936 (Publications)
- 1939
- 1942
- 1945 (Publications)
- 1948 Henri Breuil
- 1951 Harry Godwin
- 1954 Frederick William Shotton
- 1957 John Kaye Charlesworth
- 1960 Vivian Fuchs
- 1963 Kenneth Page Oakley
- 1966 Dennis Curry
- 1969 Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey and Mary Douglas Leakey
- 1972 Richard Foster Flint
- 1976
- 1979 Ian Graham Gass
- 1981
- 1984
- 1987 Claud William Wright
- 1990 William James Kennedy
- 1993 Henry Elderfield
- 1996 Mary Fowler
- 1999 Claude Jaupart
- 2002
- 2005 Russell Coope
- 2007 Frederick Vine
- 2010
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016 Henry Emeleus[1]
- 2017 not awarded
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
See also[]
- List of geology awards
- Prizes named after people
References[]
- ^ "Geological Society Awards 2016". Geological Society. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
- Geology awards
- Geological Society of London
- British science and technology awards
- Awards established in 1903
- 1903 establishments in the United Kingdom