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Lyell Medal winners

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Harry Govier Seeley
British paleontologist (1839-1909)
Richard Lydekker
English naturalist, geologist and writer (1849–1915)
Joseph Leidy
American anatomist and paleontologist (1823 – 1891)
Arthur Smith Woodward
English paleontologist (1864–1944)
Dorothy Hill
Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1907 - 1997)
John Milne
British geologist, mining engineer and inventor of the horizontal pendulum seismograph (1850-1913)
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British palaeontologist
John Evans
English archaeologist and geologist (1823–1908)
Richard Dixon Oldham
British geologist (1858–1936)
George Busk
surgeon, zoologist and palaeontologist (1807-1886)
Simon Conway Morris
British palaeontologist (born 1951)
Lyell Medal
British geological award
Charles William Andrews
British palaeontologist
John William Dawson
Canadian geologist, principal of McGill University (1820–1899)
William Benjamin Carpenter
English biologist (1813–1885)
D. M. S. Watson
British paleontologist (1886–1973)
Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
Swedish explorer and geologist (1850-1921)
Antonín Frič
Czech geologist and paleontologist (1832–1913)
James Hector
Scottish born New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon (1834-1907)
Frank Dawson Adams
McGill University, Montreal, Canada, geologist and petrologist, who studied the Monteregian Hills (1859-1942)
Harry B. Whittington
British paleontologist (1916–2010)
Maria Gordon
Scottish geologist (1864-1939)
Derek Briggs
Irish paleontologist (born 1950)
Owen Thomas Jones
Welsh geologist (1878-1967)
Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen
German geologist and paleontologist (1841-1900)
William Boyd Dawkins
Welsh geologist, paleontologist and archaeologist (1837–1929)
Martin Glaessner
geologist and paleontologist (1906–1989)
Richard Fortey
British paleontologist (1946 – 2025)
Emmanuel de Margerie
French geographer (1862-1953)
John Edward Marr
British geologist (1857–1933)
Nicholas Shackleton
British geologist (1937–2006)
Hans Henrik Reusch
Norwegian geologist, geomorphologist and educator (1852-1922)
Henry Alleyne Nicholson
British palaeontologist and zoologist (1844-1899)
Francis Arthur Bather
British scientist (1863–1934)
Janet Watson
British geologist & academic
Dianne Edwards
Welsh palaeobotanist (1942- )
Ramsay Traquair
Scottish palaeoichthyologist (1840-1912)
Eleanor Mary Reid
British palaeobotanist (1860-1953)
Edmond Hébert
French geologist (1812–1890)
George P. L. Walker
British volcanologist (1926–2005)
Lynne Frostick
Chartered British geographer and geologist
John Morris
British geologist and paleontologist (1810-1886)
Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
British paleontologist
Gertrude Elles
British geologist (1872-1960)
Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
Indian geologist (1883–1969)
William F. Ruddiman
American palaeoclimatologist and professor
John Frederick Dewey
British structural geologist
Thomas Rupert Jones
British geologist and paleontologist (1819-1911)
William Pengelly
British geologist (1812–1894)
Edwin Tulley Newton
British paleontologist (1840-1930)
Albert Ernest Kitson
British/Australian geologist and naturalist (1868–1937)
W. Brian Harland
British geologist (1917-2003)
Gustave Frédéric Dollfus
French geologist
William Joscelyn Arkell
British palaeontologist (1904-1958)
Martin Brasier
British paleontologist
Leslie Reginald Cox
English palaeontologist, malacologist, and geologist
John Imbrie
American meteorologist (1925–2016)
William Gilbert Chaloner
British paleobotanist (1928-2016)
Leonard Johnston Wills
British geologist
Sydney Savory Buckman
British geologist and palaeontologist (1860–1929)