Bigsby Medal

The Bigsby Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London established by John Jeremiah Bigsby. It is awarded for the study of American geology.

Recipients
Source:The Geological Society • 1877 Othniel Charles Marsh

• 1879 Edward Drinker Cope

• 1881 Charles Barrois

• 1883 Henry Hicks

• 1885 Alphonse Renard

• 1887 Charles Lapworth

• 1889 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall

• 1891 George Mercer Dawson

• 1893 William Johnson Sollas

• 1895 Charles Doolittle Walcott

• 1897 Clement Reid

• 1899 Edgeworth David

• 1901 George William Lamplugh

• 1903 Henri-Marc Ami

• 1905 John Walter Gregory

• 1907 Arthur William Rogers

• 1909 John Smith Flett

• 1911 Othenio Abel

• 1913 Thomas Henry Holland

• 1915 Henry Hubert Hayden

• 1917 Robert George Carruthers

• 1919 Douglas Mawson

• 1921 Lewis Leigh Fermor

• 1923 Edward Battersby Bailey

• 1925 Cyril Workman Knight

• 1927 Bernard Smith

• 1929 Percy George Hamnall Boswell

• 1931 Norman Levi Bowen

• 1933 Edward James Wayland

• 1935 Herbert Harold Read

• 1937 Cecil Edgar Tilley

• 1939 Arthur Elijah Trueman

• 1941 Cyril James Stubblefield

• 1943 George Martin Lees

• 1945 Lawrence Rickard Wager

• 1947 George Hoole Mitchell

• 1949 William Quarrier Kennedy

• 1951 Edwin Sherbon Hills

• 1953 Kingsley Charles Dunham

• 1955 Percy Edward Kent

• 1957 Harry Blackmore Whittington

• 1959 Basil Charles King

• 1961 Alwyn Williams

• 1963 Wallace Spencer Pitcher

• 1965 John Sutton

• 1965 Janet Vida Watson

• 1967 Frank H. T. Rhodes

• 1969 Richard Gilbert West

• 1971 Frederick John Vine

• 1973 John G. Ramsay

• 1975 Drummond Hoyle Matthews

• 1977 Brian Frederick Windley

• 1979 Ernest Ronald Oxburgh

• 1981 Alan Gilbert Smith

• 1983 Robert Keith O'Nions

• 1985 Robert Stephen John Sparks

• 1987 Nick Kusznir

• 1989 Trevor Elliott

• 1991 Robert Stephen White

• 1993 Julian Pearce

• 1995 Andrew Benjamin Smith

• 1997 James Anthony Jackson

• 1999 Ali Mehmet Celal Sengor

• 2001 Nicholas Jeremiah White

• 2003 Paul Nicholas Pearson

• 2005 Jonathan Blundy

• 2006 Jon Lloyd (microbiologist)

• 2007 Philip Donoghue

• 2008 Christopher John Ballentine

• 2009 Christian Turney

• 2010 Sara Russell

• 2011 Alexander Logan Densmore

• 2012 Geoffrey Duller

• 2013 Christopher Jackson

• 2014 John Maclennan

• 2015 Daniel Parsons

• 2016 Liane G. Benning

• 2017 Caroline Lear

• 2018 Simon Poulton

• 2019 Emily Rayfield

• 2020 Bridget Wade

• 2021 Marie Edmonds

• 2022 Catherine Annen