Awarded by the Geological Society of London, to "geologists who have had a significant influence by means of a substantial body of excellent research in either or both pure and applied aspects of the science." Funded with a bequest by William Hyde Wollaston.
| 1831 |
William Smith
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| 1835 |
Gideon Mantell
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| 1836 |
Louis Agassiz
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| 1837 |
Proby Thomas Cautley
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| 1837 |
Hugh Falconer
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| 1838 |
Sir Richard Owen
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| 1839 |
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
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| 1840 |
Andre Hubert Dumont
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| 1841 |
Adolphe Theodore Brongniart
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| 1842 |
Leopold von Buch
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| 1843 |
Jean-Baptiste Elie de Beaumont
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| 1843 |
Pierre Armand Dufrenoy
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| 1844 |
William Conybeare
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| 1845 |
John Phillips
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| 1846 |
William Lonsdale
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| 1847 |
Ami Boué
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| 1848 |
William Buckland
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| 1849 |
Joseph Prestwich
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| 1850 |
William Hopkins
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| 1851 |
Adam Sedgwick
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| 1852 |
William Henry Fitton
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| 1853 |
Adolphe d'Archiac
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| 1853 |
Edouard de Verneuil
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| 1854 |
Richard John Griffith
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| 1855 |
Henry de la Beche
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| 1856 |
William Edmond Logan
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| 1857 |
Joachim Barrande
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| 1858 |
Hermann von Meyer
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| 1859 |
Charles Darwin
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| 1860 |
Searles Valentine Wood
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| 1861 |
Heinrich Georg Bronn
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| 1862 |
Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen
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| 1863 |
Gustav Bischof
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| 1864 |
Roderick Murchison
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| 1865 |
Thomas Davidson
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| 1866 |
Charles Lyell
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| 1867 |
George Poulett Scrope
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| 1868 |
Carl Friedrich Naumann
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| 1869 |
Henry Clifton Sorby
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| 1870 |
Gerard Paul Deshayes
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| 1871 |
Andrew Ramsay
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| 1872 |
James Dwight Dana
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| 1873 |
Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton
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| 1874 |
Oswald Heer
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| 1875 |
Laurent-Guillaume de Koninck
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| 1876 |
Thomas Henry Huxley
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| 1877 |
Robert Mallet
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| 1878 |
Thomas Wright
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| 1879 |
Bernhard Studer
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| 1880 |
Auguste Daubree
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| 1881 |
Peter Martin Duncan
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| 1882 |
Franz Ritter von Hauer
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| 1883 |
William Thomas Blanford
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| 1884 |
Albert Jean Gaudry
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| 1885 |
George Busk
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| 1886 |
Alfred Des Cloizeaux
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| 1887 |
John Whitaker Hulke
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| 1888 |
Henry Benedict Medlicott
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| 1889 |
Thomas George Bonney
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| 1890 |
William Crawford Williamson
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| 1891 |
John Wesley Judd
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| 1892 |
Ferdinand von Richthofen
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| 1893 |
Nevil Story Maskelyne
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| 1894 |
Karl Alfred von Zittel
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| 1895 |
Archibald Geikie
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| 1896 |
Eduard Suess
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| 1897 |
Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston
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| 1898 |
Ferdinand Zirkel
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| 1899 |
Charles Lapworth
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| 1900 |
Grove Karl Gilbert
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| 1901 |
Charles Barrois
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| 1902 |
Friedrich Schmidt
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| 1903 |
Heinrich Rosenbusch
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| 1904 |
Albert Heim
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| 1905 |
Jethro Justinian Harris Teall
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| 1906 |
Henry Woodward
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| 1907 |
William Johnson Sollas
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| 1908 |
Paul Heinrich von Groth
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| 1909 |
Horace Bolingbroke Woodward
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| 1910 |
William Berryman Scott
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| 1911 |
Waldemar Christopher Brøgger
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| 1912 |
Lazarus Fletcher
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| 1913 |
Osmond Fisher
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| 1914 |
John Edward Marr
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| 1915 |
(Tannatt William) Edgeworth David
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| 1916 |
Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky
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| 1917 |
(Francois Antoine) Alfred Lacroix
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| 1918 |
Charles Doolittle Walcott
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| 1919 |
Aubrey Strahan
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| 1920 |
Gerard Jacob De Geer
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| 1921 |
Benjamin Neeve Peach
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| 1921 |
John Horne
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| 1922 |
Alfred Harker
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| 1923 |
William Whitaker
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| 1924 |
Arthur Smith Woodward
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| 1925 |
George William Lamplugh
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| 1926 |
Henry Fairfield Osborn
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| 1927 |
William Whitehead Watts
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| 1928 |
Dukinfield Henry Scott
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| 1929 |
Friedrich Johann Karl Becke
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| 1930 |
Albert Charles Seward
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| 1931 |
Arthur William Rogers
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| 1932 |
Johan Herman Lie Vogt
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| 1933 |
Marcelin Boule
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| 1934 |
Henry Alexander Miers
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| 1935 |
John Smith Flett
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| 1936 |
Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff
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| 1937 |
Waldemar Lindgren
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| 1938 |
Maurice Lugeon
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| 1939 |
Frank Dawson Adams
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| 1940 |
Henry Woods
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| 1941 |
Arthur Louis Day
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| 1942 |
Reginald Aldworth Daly
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| 1943 |
Aleksandr Evgenevich Fersmann
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| 1944 |
Victor Moritz Goldschmidt
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| 1945 |
Owen Thomas Jones
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| 1946 |
Emanuel de Margerie
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| 1947 |
Joseph Burr Tyrrell
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| 1948 |
Edward Battersby Bailey
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| 1949 |
Robert Broom
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| 1950 |
Norman Levi Bowen
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| 1951 |
Olaf Holtedahl
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| 1952 |
Herbert Harold Read
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| 1953 |
Erik Stensiö
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| 1954 |
Leonard Johnston Wills
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| 1955 |
Arthur Elijah Trueman
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| 1956 |
Arthur Holmes
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| 1957 |
Paul Fourmarier
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| 1958 |
Penti Eskola
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| 1959 |
Pierre Pruvost
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| 1960 |
Cecil Edgar Tilley
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| 1961 |
Roman Kozlowski
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| 1962 |
Leonard Hawkes
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| 1963 |
Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
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| 1964 |
Harold Jeffreys
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| 1965 |
David Meredith Seares Watson
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| 1966 |
Francis Edward Shepard
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| 1967 |
Edward Crisp Bullard
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| 1968 |
Raymond Cecil Moore
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| 1969 |
William Maurice Ewing
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| 1970 |
Philip Henry Kuenen
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| 1971 |
Ralph Alger Bagnold
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| 1972 |
Hans Ramberg
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| 1973 |
Alfred Sherwood Romer
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| 1974 |
Francis John Pettijohn
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| 1975 |
Hollis Dow Hedberg
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| 1976 |
Kingsley Charles Dunham
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| 1977 |
Reinout William van Bemmelen
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| 1978 |
John Tuzo Wilson
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| 1979 |
Hatton Schuyler Yoder
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| 1980 |
Augusto Gansser
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| 1981 |
Robert Minard Garrels
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| 1982 |
Peter John Wyllie
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| 1983 |
Dan Peter McKenzie
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| 1984 |
Kenneth J. Hsu
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| 1985 |
Gerald Joseph Wasserburg
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| 1986 |
John Graham Ramsay
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| 1987 |
Claude Jean Allègre
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| 1988 |
Alfred Ringwood
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| 1989 |
Drummond Matthews
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| 1990 |
Wallace S. Broecker
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| 1991 |
Xavier Le Pichon
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| 1992 |
Martin Harold Phillips Bott
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| 1993 |
Samuel Epstein
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| 1994 |
William Jason Morgan
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| 1995 |
George Patrick Leonard Walker
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| 1996 |
Nicholas John Shackleton
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| 1997 |
Douglas James Shearman
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| 1998 |
Karl Karekin Turekian
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| 1999 |
John Frederick Dewey
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| 2000 |
William Sefton Fyfe
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| 2001 |
Harry Blackmore Whittington
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| 2002 |
Rudolf Trumpy
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| 2003 |
Ikuo Kushiro
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| 2004 |
Geoffrey Eglinton
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