The J. Tuzo Wilson Medal is given out annually by the Canadian Geophysical Union

Canadian Geophysical Union

The Canadian Geophysical Union/Union géophysique canadienne began as a society dedicated to the scientific study of the solid earth and has evolved into one that is concerned with all aspects of the physical study of Earth and its space environment, including the Sun and solar system...

 to recognize scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to the field of geophysics

Geophysics

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...

 in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. Factors taken into account in the selection process include excellence in scientific or technical research, instrument development, industrial applications and/or teaching. The award was created in 1978 and named after its first recipient, John Tuzo Wilson.

Past recipients

• 1978- John Tuzo Wilson
• 1979- Roy O. Lindseth
• 1980- Larry W. Morley
• 1981- George D. Garland
• 1982- Jack A. Jacobs
• 1983- D. Ian Gough
• 1984- Ted Irving
  Edward A. Irving
  Edward A. "Ted" Irving, CM, FRSC, FRS is a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift...
  
  
• 1985- Harold O. Seigel
• 1986- Mike Rochester
• 1987- David Strangway
  David Strangway
  David William Strangway, OC, FRSC is a Canadian Geophysicist and University Administrator. Strangway is the founder, first President and first Chancellor of Quest University Canada, a private non-profit liberal arts and sciences university in Squamish, British Columbia which opened in September...
  
  
• 1988- Ernie Kanesewich
• 1989- Leonard S. Collett
• 1990- Gordon F. West
• 1991- Thomas Edvard Krogh
  Thomas Edvard Krogh
  Thomas Edvard "Tom" Krogh, FRSC was a geochronologist and a former curator for the Royal Ontario Museum. He revolutionized the technique of radiometric uranium-lead dating with the development of new laboratory procedures and analytical methodologies. His discoveries have yielded an unprecedented...
  
  
• 1992- R. Don Russel
• 1993- Alan E. Beck
• 1994- Michael J. Berry
• 1995- Charlotte E. Keen
• 1996- Petr Vaníček
  Petr Vanícek
  Petr Vaníček is a Czech Canadian geodesist and theoretical geophysicist who has made important breakthroughs in theory of spectral analysis and geoid computation. He initiated the establishing of the Canadian Geophysical Union in 1974, and served as the Union's president between 1986 and 1988...
  
  
• 1997- Chris Beaumount
• 1998- Ronald M. Clowes
  Ronald M. Clowes
  Dr. Ronald M. Clowes, CM is an award winning professor specializing in seismic and other geophysical studies of the Earth’s lithosphere. For his work he has been appointed a Member of the Order of Canada....
  
  
• 1999- David J. Dunlop
• 2000- Donald M. Gray
• 2001- Roy D. Hyndman
• 2002- Doug E. Smylie
• 2003- Garry K.C. Clarke
• 2004- Dick Peltier
  William Richard Peltier
  William Richard Peltier, Ph.D., D.Sc. , is a university professor of physics at the University of Toronto. He is director of the Centre for Global Change Science and principal investigator of the Polar Climate Stability Network...
  
  
• 2005- Ted Evans
• 2006- Alan Jones
• 2007- Herb Dragert
• 2008- Ming-ko (Hok) Woo
• 2009- Garth van der Kamp
• 2010- Nigel Edwards
• 2011- Fred Cook

External links

• Canadian Geophysical Union- J. Tuzo Wilson Medal