Category
page 1Penrose Medal winners
Harrison Schmitt
Astronaut, geologist, politician, 12th man to walk on the moon (Apollo 17)
William Morris Davis
American geographer (1850–1934)

Gaylord Simpson
American paleontologist (1902–1984)

John Tuzo Wilson
Canadian geologist (1908–1993)
Norman L. Bowen
Canadian geologist (1887-1956)
Arthur Holmes
English geologist (1890–1965)
Walter Alvarez
American geologist
Harry Hammond Hess
American geologist (1906–1969)
Alfred Romer
American paleontologist (1894-1973)
Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
American geologist and educator (1843–1928)
M. King Hubbert
American geoscientist (1903–1989)
Antoine Lacroix
French mineralogist and geologist (1863–1948)
Reginald Aldworth Daly
Canadian geologist (1871–1957)
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
Dutch geophysicist (1887-1966)
Ralph Alger Bagnold
English 20th-century desert explorer, geologist and soldier
Pentti Eskola
Finnish geologist (1883–1964)
William Berryman Scott
U.S. paleontologist (1858–1947)
Preston Cloud
American earth scientist, biogeologist, cosmologist, and paleontologist (1912–1991)
Maurice Ewing
American geophysicist and oceanographer (1906–1974)
Jakob Sederholm
Finnish geologist, director of the Geological Survey of Finland (1863–1934)
Hans Cloos
German geologist (1885-1951)
Robert Sinclair Dietz
American scientist (1914–1995)
Bailey Willis
American geologist (1857–1949)
G. Arthur Cooper
American paleobiologist (1902–2000)
Waldemar Lindgren
American geologist (1860-1939)

Francis Birch
American geophysicist (1903–1992)

Luna Leopold
American geomorphologist and hydrologist (1915–2006)

Arthur Louis Day
American geophysicist and volcanologist (1869–1960)
Charles Schuchert
American paleontologist (1858–1942)

Paul Fourmarier
geologist, professor (1877–1970)
Arthur Philemon Coleman
Canadian geologist (1852-1939)
J Harlen Bretz
American geologist who discovered the Missoula Floods (1882-1981)
Susan Kieffer
American geologist
Paul F. Hoffman
Canadian geologist
Andrew Lawson
British geologist (1861–1952)
Walter Hermann Bucher
American scientist (1888–1965)

Rudolf Trümpy
Swiss geologist (1921-2009)

Marshall Kay
American geologist (1904–1975)
Edward Oscar Ulrich
United States paleontologist (1857-1944)
Herbert Harold Read
British geologist (1889–1970)
John Frederick Dewey
British structural geologist
Norman D. Newell
American paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History (1909–2005)
T. Wayland Vaughan
U.S. geologist, paleontologist, and cnidariologist (1870–1952)
Kenneth Hsu
professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zuerich, Switzerland
Philip Henry Kuenen
Dutch geologist (1902-1976)

Robert P. Sharp
American geologist and planetary scientist (1911–2004)
William R. Dickinson
American geologist (1931–2015)
Peter Vail
American geologist
Nelson Horatio Darton
American geologist (1865-1948)
Adolph Knopf
American geologist (1882-1966)
Hollis Dow Hedberg
American academic (1903–1988)

Jack Oliver
American seismologist (1923–2011)
Francis J. Pettijohn
American geologist (1904–1999)

W. Gary Ernst
American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry

William Walden Rubey
American geologist (1898–1974)