Medalha Bigsby

AMedalha Bigsbyé uma recompensa científica concedida bianualmente pelaSociedade Geológica de Londrespara o autor de um trabalho sobre ageologiado continenteamericano.

O receptor da medalha deve ter realizado o trabalho com menos de 45 anos de idade.

Foi nomeada em homenagem aomédicoegeólogobritânicoJohn Jeremiah Bigsby(1792-1881).

A primeira medalha Bigsby foi concedida em 1877.

Laureados

• 1877Othniel Charles Marsh
• 1879Edward Drinker Cope
• 1881Charles Barrois
• 1883Henry Hicks
• 1885Alphonse Renard
• 1887Charles Lapworth
• 1889Jethro Teall
• 1891George Mercer Dawson
• 1893William Johnson Sollas
• 1895Charles Doolittle Walcott
• 1897Clement Reid
• 1899Edgeworth David
• 1901George William Lamplugh
• 1903Henri-Marc Ami
• 1905John Walter Gregory
• 1907Arthur William Rogers
• 1909John Smith Flett
• 1911Othenio Abel
• 1913Thomas Henry Holland
• 1915Henry Hubert Hayden
• 1917Robert George Carruthers
• 1919Douglas Mawson
• 1921Lewis Leigh Fermor
• 1923Edward Battersby Bailey
• 1925Cyril Workman Knight
• 1927Bernard Smith
• 1929Percy George Hamnall Boswell
• 1931Norman Levi Bowen
• 1933Edward James Wayland
• 1935Herbert Harold Read
• 1937Cecil Edgar Tilley
• 1939Arthur Elijah Trueman
• 1941Cyril James Stubblefield
• 1943George Martin Lees
• 1945Lawrence Rickard Wager
• 1947George Hoole Mitchell
• 1949William Quarrier Kennedy
• 1951Edwin Sherbon Hills
• 1953Kingsley Charles Dunham
• 1955Percy Edward Kent
• 1957Harry Blackmore Whittington
• 1959Basil Charles King
• 1961Alwyn Williams
• 1963Wallace Spencer Pitcher
• 1965John Sutton
• 1965Janet Vida Watson
• 1967Frank Harold Trevor Rhodes
• 1969Richard Gilbert West
• 1971Frederick John Vine
• 1973John Graham Ramsay
• 1975Drummond Hoyle Matthews
• 1977Brian Frederick Windley
• 1979Ernest Ronald Oxburgh
• 1981Alan Gilbert Smith
• 1983Robert Keith O'Nions
• 1985Robert Stephen John Sparks
• 1987Nick Kuznir
• 1989Trevor Elliott
• 1991Robert Stephen White
• 1993Julian Anthony Pearce
• 1995Andrew Benjamin Smith
• 1997James Jackson
• 1999Celâl Şengör
• 2001Nicholas Jeremiah White
• 2003Paul Nicholas Pearson
• 2005Jonathan Blundy
• 2006Jonathan Lloyd
• 2007Philip Donoghue
• 2008Christopher John Ballentine
• 2009Christian Turney
• 2010Sara Russell
• 2011Alexander Densmore
• 2012Geoffrey Duller
• 2013Christopher Jackson
• 2014John Maclennan
• 2015Daniel Parson
• 2016Liane G Benning
• 2017Caroline Lear