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Wollaston Medal winners

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English naturalist and biologist (1809-1882)

Thomas Henry Huxley

British biologist and comparative anatomist (1825–1895)

English biologist and paleontologist (1804–1892)

Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)

British geologist (1797–1875)

English scientist (1919–2022)

William Buckland

English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist (1784-1856)

James Dwight Dana

American mineralogist, scientist and zoologist (1813-1895)

Austrian geologist (1831-1914)

Ferdinand von Richthofen

German traveller, geographer and scientist (1833-1905)

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

German biologist (1795–1876)

geologist credited with the first nationwide map (1769-1839)

British scientist and obstetrician (1790–1852)

English geologist (1785–1873)

Christian Leopold von Buch

German geologist (1774-1853)

Henry Fairfield Osborn

American geologist and eugenicist (1857–1935)

Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet

British geologist (1792-1871)

Viktor Goldschmidt

Norwegian mineralogist (1888-1947)

Harold Jeffreys

British geophysicist and statistician (1891–1989)

South African doctor and paleontologist (1866–1951)

Charles Doolittle Walcott

American paleontologist and 4th Secretary of the Smithsonian (1850-1927)

Wollaston Medal

award of the Geological Society of London

John Tuzo Wilson

Canadian geologist (1908–1993)

Norman L. Bowen

Canadian geologist (1887-1956)

Alexander Fersman

Russian mineralogist (1883–1945)

William Thomas Blanford

British geologist and naturalist (1832–1905)

Joachim Barrande

geologist, paleontologist and engineer (1799–1883)

English geologist (1890–1965)

Karl Alfred von Zittel

German geologist and paleontologist (1839–1904)

Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart

French botanist (1801-1876)

Grove Karl Gilbert

American geologist (1843–1918)

Alexander Karpinsky

Russian geologist and president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1847-1936)

Austrian geologist, physician and botanist (1794-1881)

Claude Allègre

French politician and geochemist (1937–2025)

Archibald Geikie

British geologist (1835–1924)

Swiss naturalist (1809–1883)

Swiss geologist (1849-1937)

geophysicist, civil engineer and inventor from Ireland (1810-1881)

Edgeworth David

Australian geologist (1858–1934)

Henry De la Beche

English geologist, palaeontologist and Slave plantations owner (1796–1855)

Hermann von Meyer

German paleontologist

American paleontologist (1894-1973)

William Hopkins

English mathematician and geologist (1793-1866)

Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont

French geologist

Ferdinand Zirkel

German geologist (1838–1912)

Scottish scientist (1808–1865)

Friedrich Schmidt

Baltic German geologist and botanist (1832–1908)

Dukinfield Henry Scott

British botanist (1854-1934)

Arthur Smith Woodward

English paleontologist (1864–1944)

Henry Clifton Sorby

British scientist, founder of microscopical petrology and metallography (1826–1908)

Adolphe d'Archiac

academic, member of the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino since 1853 (1802–1868)

Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann

German geologist (1797-1873)

William Daniel Conybeare

English geologist and palaeontologist (1787-1857)

Charles Lapworth

English geologist (1842-1920)

Antoine Lacroix

French mineralogist and geologist (1863–1948)

Marcellin Boule

French paleontologist, paleoanthropologist and geologist (1861–1942)

English geologist (1800-1874)

Reginald Aldworth Daly

Canadian geologist (1871–1957)

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger

Norwegian geologist and petrologist (1851–1940)

Swedish geologist (1858-1943)