Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud

The Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud (Colloquialised as Prix Vautrin Lud or the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize) established in 1991, it is the highest award that can be gained in the field of geography

Geography

Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

. The award is modelled on the Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

it is considered and colloquially called the Nobel prize for geography. The award is named after the 16th Century French scholar Vautrin Lud who is credited with naming the New World

New World

The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically America and sometimes Oceania . The term originated in the late 15th century, when America had been recently discovered by European explorers, expanding the geographical horizon of the people of the European middle...

America after Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.-Expeditions:...

. The award is given in the autumn of each year at the International Geography Festival in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges

Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, commonly referred to as Saint-Dié, is a commune in the Vosges department in Lorraine in northeastern France.It is a sub-prefecture of the department.-Geography:...

, France (the home town of Vatrin Lud) and decided upon by a five person international.

Recipients

Name	Country	Year
Peter Haggett Peter Haggett Peter Haggett, CBE Sc.D. FBA is an eminent British geographer and academic, Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Fellow in Urban and Regional Geography at the School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol....	UK	1991
Torsten Hägerstrand Torsten Hägerstrand Torsten Hägerstrand , was a Swedish geographer. He is known for his work on migration, cultural diffusion and time geography.... & Gilbert F. White Gilbert F. White Gilbert Fowler White was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century"...	Sweden & USA	1992
Peter Gould Peter Gould Peter Gould was an Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Geography at Penn State University. Throughout his tenure at Penn State University, Gould received many awards including the Lauréat Prix International de Géographie Vautrin Lud, the Retzius Gold Metal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and...	USA	1993
Milton Santos Milton Santos Milton Almeida dos Santos was a Brazilian geographer who had a degree in law.-Biography:Santos was born in Brotas de Macaúbas, Bahia, Brazil on May 3, 1926. Santos' parents were teachers at elementary school and taught him at home how to read and write...	Brazil	1994
David Harvey David Harvey (geographer) David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York . A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD in Geography from University of Cambridge in 1961. Widely influential, he is among the top 20 most cited...	UK	1995
Roger Brunet Roger Brunet -Life:Born in Toulouse, Brunet attended the University of Toulouse, where he earned his PhD in 1965. He was subsequently professor at the University of Reims from 1966 to 1976, where he founded IATEUR. He was director of research at CNRS from 1976 to 1981, and from 1981 to 1984 served advisory and... & Paul Claval	France	1996
Jean-Bernard Racine Jean-Bernard Racine Jean-Bernard Racine is a Professor of Geography at the Institute of Geography, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment of the University of Lausanne and at HEC Lausanne Business School...	Switzerland	1997
Doreen Massey Doreen Massey (geographer) Doreen Barbara Massey FRSA FBA AcSS , is a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, working among others on topics typical of marxist geography...	UK	1998
Ron J. Johnston Ron J. Johnston Ronald 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...	UK	1999
Yves Lacoste Yves Lacoste Yves Lacoste is a French geographer and geopolitician. He was born in Fes, Morocco. In 1976 he established the French geopolitical journal "Hérodote"...	France	2000
Sir Peter Hall Peter Hall (urbanist) Sir Peter Geoffrey Hall, FBA is an English town planner, urbanist and geographer. He is the Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at The Bartlett, University College London and President of both the Town and Country Planning Association and the Regional Studies Association.He is...	UK	2001
Bruno Messerli	Switzerland	2002
Allen J. Scott Allen J. Scott Allen John Scott is a professor of geography and public policy at University of California, Los Angeles.- Biography :Scott was born in Liverpool, England in 1938 and graduated from Oxford University in 1961. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern University...	USA	2003
Philippe Pinchemel	France	2004
Brian J. L. Berry Brian Berry Brian Joe Lobley Berry is a British-American human geographer. He is Lloyd Viel Berkner Regental Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas...	USA	2005
Heinz Wanner	Switzerland	2006
Mike Goodchild Michael Frank Goodchild Michael Frank Goodchild is a British-American geographer. He is currently a professor of geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara...	UK	2007
Horacio Capel Sáez	Spain	2008
Terry McGee Terry McGee Terence Gary McGee, usually called Terry McGee is an urban geographer and social scientist.-Key themes:McGees' major academic work has mainly been in the following areas:...	Canada	2009
Denise Pumain	France	2010

External links

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19981001/ai_n14191789
http://www.geog.ucla.edu/news.php
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1683
http://www.csiss.org/SPACE/about/news.php
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2000/492.html
http://www.utdallas.edu/news/archive/2005/berry-lud.html
http://www.fig-saintdie.com/

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