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Awards
Mary Clark Thompson Medal
Awarded for most important service to geology and paleontology. Established through the Mary Clark Thompson Fund.
Recipients:
Alfred G. Fischer (2009)
For leadership and research in the discovery of the cyclical and period nature of the sedimentary record in the geologic past and its connections with earth-system change, including biodiversity.
Steven M. Stanley (2006)
For research and leadership in bivalve functional morphology and the macroevolution of disparate animals, including hominids, in the context of Earth's physical and chemical history.
Frederik J. Hilgen (2003)
For his meticulous integration of various geological, geophysical, and proxy cyclostratigraphic sedimentological records in developing a late Neogene (12-0Ma) astronomical time scale.
Jan Smit (1999)
For establishing the sequence of impact-generated events that occured 65 million years ago, including ejecta fallout, tsunami propagation, geochemical distubances, and extinction in foraminifera and dinosaurs.
David L. Jones (1995)
For his development of terrane-tectonic theory through geologic mapping of westernmost North America and the biostratigraphic study of radiolarians in deepwater chert.
Harry B. Whittington (1990)
J. William Schopf (1986)
W. A. Berggren (1982)
James M. Schopf (1976)
Hollis D. Hedberg (1973)
Raymond C. Moore (1970)
Wendell P. Woodring (1967)
Milton N. Bramlette (1964)
Norman D. Newell (1961)
Roman Kozlowski (1958)
G. Arthur Cooper (1957)
Alfred S. Romer (1954)
Lloyd W. Stephenson (1952)
Lauge Koch (1949)
Frank H. McLearn (1948)
John Bernard Reeside, Jr. (1946)
Thomas W. Vaughan (1945)
William Joscelyn Arkell (1944)
George G. Simpson (1943)
Edward W. Berry and Arthur S. Woodward (1942)
David M. Watson (1941)
Amadeus William Grabau (1936)
Charles Schuchert (1934)
Francis A. Bather (1932)
David L. White (1931)
William B. Scott and Edward Oscar Ulrich (1930)
James P. Smith (1928)
John M. Clarke (1925)
Emmanuel de Margerie (1923)
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1921)
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