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The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston , and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of Palladium , a metal discovered by Wollaston.

LAUREATES

1831

1831 William Smith

1835 Gideon Mantell

1836 Louis Agassiz

1837 Proby Thomas Cautley

1837 Hugh Falconer

1838 Richard Owen

1839 Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

1840 Andre Hubert Dumont

1841 Adolphe Theodore Brongniart

1842 Leopold Von Buch

1843 Jean-Baptiste Elie De Beaumont

1843 Pierre Armand Dufrenoy

1844 William Conybeare

1845 John Phillips

1846 William Lonsdale

1847 Ami Boué

1848 William Buckland

1849 Joseph Prestwich

1850

1850 William Hopkins

1851 Adam Sedgwick

1852 William Henry Fitton

1853 Adolphe D'Archiac

1853 Edouard De Verneuil

1854 Richard John Griffith

1855 Henry De La Beche

1856 William Edmond Logan

1857 Joachim Barrande

1858 Hermann Von Meyer

1859 Charles Darwin

1860 Searles Valentine Wood

1861 Heinrich Georg Bronn

1862 Robert Alfred Cloyne Godwin-Austen

1863 Gustav Bischof

1864 Roderick Murchison

1865 Thomas Davidson

1866 Charles Lyell

1867 George Poulett Scrope

1868 Carl Friedrich Naumann

1869 Henry Clifton Sorby

1870 Gerard Paul Deshayes

1871 Andrew Ramsay

1872 James Dwight Dana

1873 Philip De Malpas Grey Egerton

1874 Oswald Heer

1875 Laurent-Guillaume De Koninck

1876 Thomas Henry Huxley

1877 Robert Mallet

1878 Thomas Wright

1879 Bernhard Studer

1880 Auguste Daubrée

1881 Peter Martin Duncan

1882 Franz Ritter Von Hauer

1883 William Thomas Blanford

1884 Albert Jean Gaudry

1885 George Busk

1886 Alfred Des Cloizeaux

1887 John Whitaker Hulke

1888 Henry Benedict Medlicott

1889 Thomas George Bonney

1890 William Crawford Williamson

1891 John Wesley Judd

1892 Ferdinand Von Richthofen

1893 Nevil Story Maskelyne

1894 Karl Alfred Von Zittel

1895 Archibald Geikie

1896 Eduard Suess

1897 Wilfred Hudleston Hudleston

1898 Ferdinand Zirkel

1899 Charles Lapworth

1900

1900 Grove Karl Gilbert

1901 Charles Barrois

1902 Friedrich Schmidt

1903 Heinrich Rosenbusch

1904 Albert Heim

1905 Jethro Justinian Harris Teall

1906 Henry Woodward

1907 William Johnson Sollas

1908 Paul Heinrich Von Groth

1909 Horace Bolingbroke Woodward

1910 William Berryman Scott

1911 Waldemar Christopher Brøgger

1912 Lazarus Fletcher

1913 Osmond Fisher

1914 John Edward Marr

1915 (Tannatt William) Edgeworth David

1916 Alexander Petrovich Karpinsky

1917 (Francois Antoine) Alfred Lacroix

1918 Charles Doolittle Walcott

1919 Aubrey Strahan

1920 Gerard Jacob De Geer

1921 Benjamin Neeve Peach

1921 John Horne

1922 Alfred Harker

1923 William Whitaker

1924 Arthur Smith Woodward

1925 George William Lamplugh

1926 Henry Fairfield Osborn

1927 William Whitehead Watts

1928 Dukinfield Henry Scott

1929 Friedrich Johann Karl Becke

1930 Albert Charles Seward

1931 Arthur William Rogers

1932 Johan Herman Lie Vogt

1933 Marcelin Boule

1934 Henry Alexander Miers

1935 John Smith Flett

1936 Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff

1937 Waldemar Lindgren

1938 Maurice Lugeon

1939 Frank Dawson Adams

1940 Henry Woods

1941 Arthur Louis Day

1942 Reginald Aldworth Daly

1943 Alexander Yevgenyevich Fersman

1944 Victor Moritz Goldschmidt

1945 Owen Thomas Jones

1946 Emanuel De Margerie

1947 Joseph Burr Tyrrell

1948 Edward Battersby Bailey

1949 Robert Broom

1950

1950 Norman Levi Bowen

1951 Olaf Holtedahl

1952 Herbert Harold Read

1953 Erik Stensiö

1954 Leonard Johnston Wills

1955 Arthur Elijah Trueman

1956 Arthur Holmes

1957 Paul Fourmarier

1958 Penti Eskola

1959 Pierre Pruvost

1960 Cecil Edgar Tilley

1961 Roman Kozlowski

1962 Leonard Hawkes

1963 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz

1964 Harold Jeffreys

1965 David Meredith Seares Watson

1966 Francis Edward Shepard

1967 Edward Crisp Bullard

1968 Raymond Cecil Moore

1969 William Maurice Ewing

1970 Philip Henry Kuenen

1971 Ralph Alger Bagnold

1972 Hans Ramberg

1973 Alfred Sherwood Romer

1974 Francis John Pettijohn

1975 Hollis Dow Hedberg

1976 Kingsley Charles Dunham

1977 Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

1978 John Tuzo Wilson

1979 Hatton Schuyler Yoder

1980 Augusto Gansser

1981 Robert Minard Garrels

1982 Peter John Wyllie

1983 Dan Peter McKenzie

1984 Kenneth J. Hsu

1985 Gerald Joseph Wasserburg

1986 John Graham Ramsay

1987 Claude Jean Allègre

1988 Alfred Ringwood

1989 Drummond Hoyle Matthews

1990 Wallace S. Broecker

1991 Xavier Le Pichon

1992 Martin Harold Phillips Bott

1993 Samuel Epstein

1994 William Jason Morgan

1995 George Patrick Leonard Walker

1996 Nicholas John Shackleton

1997 Douglas James Shearman

1998 Karl Karekin Turekian

1999 John Frederick Dewey

2000

2000 William Sefton Fyfe

2001 Harry Blackmore Whittington

2002 Rudolf Trumpy

2003 Ikuo Kushiro

2004 Geoffrey Eglinton

2005 Ted Irving

SEE ALSO

List Of Medals

Prizes Named After People

Geology Of The United Kingdom

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Geological Society medal winners