J. Lawrence Smith Medal
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J. Lawrence Smith Medal is awarded by the National Academy of Sciences
United States National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences is a corporation in the United States whose members serve pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine." As a national academy, new members of the organization are elected annually by current members, based on their distinguished and...

 for investigations of meteoric bodies. The medal is in honor of its namesake, J. Lawrence Smith.
J. Lawrence Smith Medal Winners
YearName
1888 H. A. Newton
1922 George P. Merrill
1945 Fred L. Whipple
1954 Peter Millman
Peter Millman
Peter Mackenzie Millman was a Canadian astronomer. He worked at the Dunlap Observatory from 1933 until 1940. In early 1941 he enlisted with the Royal Canadian Air Force. In 1946 he joined the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa...

1957 Mark G. Inghram
1960 Ernst Öpik
Ernst Öpik
Ernst Julius Öpik was a noted Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.-Education:...

1962 Harold C. Urey
1967 John Reynolds
1970 Edward P. Henderson
1971 Edward Anders
1973 Clair C. Patterson
Clair Cameron Patterson
Clair Cameron Patterson was a geochemist born in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. He graduated from Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, received his Ph.D...

1976 John A. Wood
1979 Ralph B. Baldwin
1985 G. J. Wasserburg
1988 Alastair G. W. Cameron
1991 Robert M. Walker (scientist)
1994 Donald E. Brownlee
Donald E. Brownlee
Don Brownlee is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington and the principal investigator for NASA's STARDUST mission. His primary research interests include astrobiology, comets, cosmic dust, and porsche evangelism....

1997 Ernst Zinner
2000 George Wetherill
George Wetherill
George Wetherill was the Director Emeritus, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC, USA....

2003 John T. Wasson
2006 Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil
Klaus Keil is a professor at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. He is the former Director of the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology. He is also the former director of the University of New Mexico Institute of Meteoritics. Klaus...

2009 Robert N. Clayton

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