Lyell Medal
The Lyell, Murchison and William Smith Medals are of equal status. The Society regards them very highly and they are not normally awarded on the basis of a few good papers or achievements. In the past, Council has often looked for some breadth as well as depth in the contributions before awarding these Medals.
The Lyell Medal is normally given for contributions to 'soft' rock studies. It was established under the will and codicil of Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875), the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised the idea of uniformitarianism.
Past winners
2024 Lynne Frostick
2023 Peter Clift
2022 William B F Ryan
2021 Nicholas White
2020 Rachel Wood
2019 Nicholas Kusznir
2018 Julian Dowdeswell
2017 Rosalind Rickaby
2016 John Underhill
2015 Colin Ballantyne
2014 Martin Brasier
2013 Paula Reimer
2012 Eric Wolff
2011 Christopher Paola
2010 William F Ruddiman
2009 I Nick McCave
2008 Alan Gilbert Smith
2007 Philip Allen
2006 Geoffrey Boulton
2005 Michael James Benton
2004 Dianne Edwards
2003 Harry Elderfield
2002 Andrew Smith
2001 Paul Tapponnier
2000 Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs
1999 Ernest Henry Rutter
1998 Simon Conway Morris
1997 Richard Barrie Rickards
1996 Richard Allen Fortey
1995 Robert Keith O'Nions
1994 William Gilbert Chaloner
1993 Michael Robert Leeder
1992 Alfred G Fischer
1991 John Imbrie
1990 Anthony Hallam
1989 Jake Hancock
1988 Richard Gilbert West
1987 Nicholas John Shackleton
1986 Harry Blackmore Whittington
1985 John Douglas Hudson
1984 Douglas James Shearman
1983 John Frederick Dewey
1982 George Patrick Leonard Walker
1981 William Stuart McKerrow
1980 John Robert Lawrence Allen
1979 Derek Victor Ager
1978 Robin Gilbert Charles Bathurst
1977 Bernard Elgey Leake
1976 Walter Brian Harland
1975 Dorothy Helen Rayner
1974 Martin Fritz Glaessner
1973 Janet Vida Watson
1972 Alec Westley Skempton
1971 Percival Allen
1970 Frederick Henry Stewart
1969 Francis John Turner
1968 Maurice Black
1967 William Quarrier Kennedy
1966 Sergei Ivanovich Tomkeieff
1965 Charles Findlay Davidson
1964 Dorothy Hill
1963 Thomas Neville George
1962 Lawrence Rickard Wager
1961 John Vernon Harrison
1960 Doris Livesey Reynolds
1959 David Williams
1958 Helen Marguerite Muir-Wood
1957 Stephen Henry Straw
1956 Leslie Reginald Cox
1955 Wilfred Norman Edwards
1954 John Baird Simpson
1953 Oliver Meredith Boone Bulman
1952 Alfred Kingsley Wells
1951 William Dixon West
1950 Samuel James Shand
1949 William Jocelyn Arkell
1948 Arthur Hubert Cox
1947 Stanley Smith
1946 Robert Heron Rastall
1945 Leonard Frank Spath
1944 Norman Ross Junner
1943 Darashaw Nosherwan Wadia
1942 William Sawney Bisat
1941 Ernest Sheppard Pinfold
1940 Herbert Leader Hawkins
1939 William Noel Benson
1938 John Pringle
1937 Linsdall Richardson
1936 Leonard Johnston Wills
1936 Eleanor Mary Reid
1935 David Meredith Seares Watson
1934 Walter Howchin
1934 Frank Lorimer Kitchin
1933 James Ernest Richey
1932 Maria Matilda Ogilvie Gordon
1932 Henry Dewey
1931 Ernest Clayton Andrews
1930 Herbert Brantwood Maufe
1930 Frederick Chapman
1929 Arthur Morley Davies
1929 Arthur Morley Davies
1928 William Dickson Lang
1928 Sidney Hugh Reynolds
1927 Albert Ernest Kitson
1926 Owen Thomas Jones
1925 John Frederick Norman Green
1924 William Wickham King
1923 Gustave Frederic Dollfus
1922 Charles Davison
1921 Emmanuel de Margerie
1920 Edward Greenly
1919 William Fraser Hume
1918 Henry Woods
1917 Wheelton Hind
1916 Charles William Andrews
1915 Edmund Johnston Garwood
1914 Charles Stewart Middlemiss
1913 Sydney Savory Buckman
1912 Philip Lake
1911 Francis Arthur Bather
1911 Arthur Walton Rowe
1910 Arthur Vaughan
1909 Percy Fry Kendall
1908 Richard Dixon Oldham
1907 (John) Joseph Frederick Whiteaves
1906 Frank Dawson Adams
1905 Hans Reusch
1904 Alfred Gabriel Nathorst
1903 Frederick William Rudler
1902 Richard Lydekker
1902 Anton Fritsch
1901 Ramsay Heatley Traquair
1900 John Edward Marr
1899 Charles Alexander McMahon
1898 Wilhelm Waagen
1897 George Jennings Hinde
1896 Arthur Smith Woodward
1895 John Frederick Blake
1894 John Milne
1893 Edwin Tulley Newton
1892 George Highfield Morton
1891 Thomas McKenny Hughes
1890 Thomas Rupert Jones
1889 William Boyd Dawkins
1888 Henry Alleyne Nicholson
1887 Samuel Allport
1886 William Pengelly
1885 Harry Govier Seeley
1884 Joseph Leidy
1883 William Benjamin Carpenter
1882 John Lycett
1881 John William Dawson
1880 John Evans
1879 Edmond Hebert
1878 George Busk
1877 James Hector
1876 John Morris