Prestwich Medal
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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.
Geological Society of London
The Geological Society of London is a learned society based in the United Kingdom with the aim of "investigating the mineral structure of the Earth"...
established in the will of Joseph Prestwich
Joseph Prestwich
Sir Joseph Prestwich FRS, was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds....
"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
- 1903 John Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
- 1906 William Whitaker
- 1909 Lady Maria Millington Evans
- 1912 (Library extension)
- 1915 Emile CartailhacÉmile CartailhacÉmile Cartailhac was a French prehistorian, one of the founding fathers of the studies of the cave art. He is perhaps best remembered because of his involvement with the Altamira paintings....
- 1918 William Boyd DawkinsWilliam Boyd DawkinsProfessor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS, KBE was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man...
- 1921 (Publications)
- 1924 (Publications)
- 1927 (Publications)
- 1930 (Publications)
- 1933 (Publications)
- 1936 (Publications)
- 1939 Samuel Hazzledine Warren
- 1942 Alfred Santer Kennard
- 1945 (Publications)
- 1948 Henri BreuilHenri BreuilHenri Édouard Prosper Breuil , often referred to as Abbé Breuil, was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist...
- 1951 Harry GodwinHarry GodwinSir Harry Godwin FRS, was a prominent English botanist and ecologist of the 20th century. He had a long association with Clare College, Cambridge.-Early life:...
- 1954 Frederick William ShottonFrederick William ShottonProfessor Frederick William Shotton FRS was a British geologist....
- 1957 John Kaye Charlesworth
- 1960 Vivian FuchsVivian FuchsSir Vivian Ernest Fuchs FRS was an English explorer whose expeditionary team completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica in 1958.- Biography :...
- 1963 Kenneth Page Oakley
- 1966 Dennis Curry
- 1969 Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey and Mary Douglas Leakey
- 1972 Richard Foster Flint Richard Foster FlintRichard Foster Flint , born in Chicago, graduated from the University of Chicago and earned his Ph.D. in geology at the University of California graduating in 1925...
- 1976 Walter William Bishop
- 1979 Ian Graham GassIan Graham GassIan Graham Gass, FRS, geologist, was Professor of Earth Sciences and Head of Discipline at the Open University, Milton Keynes and he was President of the IAVCEI . He was married to Mary Pearce ....
- 1981 Harold Garnar Reading
- 1984 Charles Downie
- 1987 Claud William WrightClaud William WrightClaud William Wright , aka Willy Wright, was a senior British civil servant who was also was a notable expert in the disciplines of geology, palaeontology, and archaeology.- Life :He was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford...
- 1990 William James KennedyWilliam James KennedyProf. William James "Jim" Kennedy MA, DSc is a British geologist.Jim Kennedy studied at the University of London.Kennedy was a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford and Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford...
- 1993 Henry ElderfieldHenry ElderfieldProfessor Henry "Harry" Elderfield, FRS, , is Professor of Ocean Geochemistry and Palaeoclimate Research at the Godwin Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University...
- 1996 Christine Mary Rutherford Fowler
- 1999 Claude Jaupart
- 2002 Adrian William Amsler Rushton
- 2005 Geoffrey Russell Coope
- 2007 Frederick Vine
- 2008 Christopher John Ballentine
- 2009 Christian Turney