Past Recipients
| 2008 | Walter Alvarez the maverick geologist who convinced a skeptical world that dinosaurs and many other living things on Earth were wiped out by a huge fireball from space | |
| 2004 | Sir Nicholas Shackleton, Climate Change, Great Britain
W. Richard Peltier, Climate Change, Canada |
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| 2000 |
W. Jason Morgan, Seafloor Spreading, Plate Tectonics and Mantle Convection, USA Walter C. Pitman III, Plate Tectonic Theory, Theoretical Geomorphology and Tectonics, USA Lynn R. Sykes, Earthquake Forecasting and Prediction, Seismological Verification of Underground Nuclear Test-ban Treaties, USA |
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| 1996 |
Robert E. Dickinson, Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Modeling, Climate-Biosphere Interactions, USA |
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| 1993 | Walter Munk, Geophysics, USA | |
| 1987 |
Wallace S. Broecker, Geochemistry, USA |
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| 1981 | Marion King Hubbert, Geophysics and Geology, USA | |
| 1978 | J. Tuzo Wilson, Geology, Canada | |
| 1974 | Chaim Leib Pekeris, Mathematical Methods Applied to Earth's Interior, Israel | |
| 1973 | William A. Fowler, Astrophysics, USA | |
| 1970 | Allan V. Cox, Paleomagnetism, USA Richard R. Doell, Paleomagnetism, USA S. Keith Runcorn, Paleomagnetism, Great Britain |
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| 1968 | Francis Birch, Physical Properties of Rocks, USA Sir Edward Bullard, Interior of the Earth, Magnetism, Great Britain |
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| 1966 | Jan Hendrik Oort, Astrophysics, Holland | |
| 1964 | Pentti Eelis Eskola, Chemistry of Rocks, Finland
Arthur Holmes, Geology, Great Britain |
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| 1962 | Sir Harold Jeffreys, Mathematical Methods Applied to the Study of the Interior of the Earth, Great Britain Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Gravity and the Interior of the Earth, Holland |
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| 1960 | W. Maurice Ewing, Geophysics, Seismology, Study of the Ocean Bottom, USA |