William Smith Medal

The William Smith Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London, awarded for outstanding research in applied or economic geology. It was first awarded in 1977. It is named after William Smith.

Smith Medalists
Source: Geological Society

Twentieth century
• 1977 Robert Ferguson Legget

• 1978 Marion King Hubbert

• 1979 William Harry Mayne

• 1980 George Armstrong

• 1981 John Stewart Webb

• 1982 Albert W. Bally

• 1983 Roy Woodall

• 1984 Bernard Pierre Tissot

• 1985 Peter George Fookes

• 1986 Peter Robbins Vail

• 1987 Robert Stanton

• 1988 Peter Ziegler

• 1989 Richard Allen Downing

• 1990 Desmond A Pretorius

• 1991 William Robert Dearman

• 1992 Daniel Francis Merriam

• 1993 Evert Hoek

• 1994 Ziad Rafiq Beydoun

• 1995 John Knill

• 1996 Richard Henry Sillitoe

• 1997 John Anthony Cherry

• 1998 Stephen Larter

• 1999 John William Lloyd

• 2000 Denys Brunsden

Twenty-first century
• 2001 Kenneth William Glennie

• 2002  Nicholas Ambraseys

• 2003  Richard Hardman

• 2004  Jeffrey Hedenquist

• 2005  Robert Knipe

• 2006  Stephen Foster

• 2007  Michael Worthington

• 2008  Martin Sinha

• 2009  Michael Russell

• 2010  Henry Posamentier

• 2011  Robert Stuart Haszeldine

• 2012  Willy Aspinall

• 2013  Dr Martin P A Jackson

• 2014  Peter Styles

• 2015  Anthony Doré

• 2016  Michael de Freitas

• 2017  John Walsh

• 2018  Peter Dolan

• 2019  Frances Wall

• 2020  Alastair Ruffell

• 2021 Philip Christie

• 2022 Rod Graham

• 2023 Karen Hanghøj