Victoria Medal (geography)

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The Victoria Medal is an award presented by the Royal Geographical Society. It is awarded "for conspicuous merit in research in geography" and has been given since 1902, in honour of the late Queen Victoria. Up until then, the society's Patron's Medal had alternatively been known as the "Victoria Medal", and the new medal resembled its original design.

Past recipients

2016: Ron Martin, for research excellence in regional economic development

2015: Stephen Daniels, for research excellence in cultural geography

2014: Susan Jane Smith, for research on geography

2013: Paul A. Longley, for research in geographic information science.

2012: Stuart Lane, for research in physical geography and hydrological modelling.

2011: John Lowe, for research in Quaternary Science.

2010: Rick Battarbee, for research in environmental change

2009: Philip Rees, for research on population geography and demography

2008: Linda McDowell, for research in socio-economic and feminist geography

2007: Peter Jackson, for research on social geography

2006: Jim Rose, for contributions to quaternary research

2005: Ray Hudson, for research on regional and industrial change in the UK and wider Europe

2004: Michael Watts, for research on political economy, culture and power

2003: Nigel Thrift

2002: Angela Gurnell

2001: Peter Dicken

2000: Desmond Walling

1999: Robin Butlin

1998: Ian Simmons

1997: David Lowenthal

1996: Ronald Abler, for his contribution to human geography and enhancement of links between British and American geography

1995: Helen Wallis

1994: Doreen Massey

1993: Norman Graves

1992: John Goddard

1991: John Clarke

1990: Ron Johnston

1989: David Simonett

1988: Brian Berry

1987: Chauncy Harris

1986: Ren Mei'e

1985: J. T. Coppock

1984: Richard Hartshorne

1983: B. H. Farmer

1982: H. J. Jusatz

1981: Julius Büdel

1980: Jean Gottmann

1979: Torsten Hägerstrand

1978: Terence Armstrong

1977: Emrys Jones

1976: J. N. Jennings

1975: C. O. Sauer

1974: C. A. Fisher

1973: E. Estyn Evans

1972: G. H. J. Daysh

1971: O. K. H. Spate

1970: Raleigh Ashlin Skelton

1969: Marcel Aurousseau

1968: Walter Christaller

1967: C.W. Phillips

1966: G. R. Crone

1964: J. N. L. Baker

1963: H. C. Darby

1962: Carl Troll

1960: J. A. Steers

1959: Gerald Seligman

1958: Roberto Almagià

1957: S. W. Wooldridge

1955: Sir John Russell, for his studies of soils and agriculture

1953: John Myres

1951: Charles Cotton

1950: Emmanuel de Martonne

1948: Frank Debenham

1947: Eva G. R. Taylor

1946: H. J. Fleure, for distinguished service in the advancement of geographical education and valuable researches into the human aspects of geography

1941: Harold Jeffreys

1940: O. G. S. Crawford

1938: Arthur Hinks

1936: Stanley Wells Kemp

1935: E. J. Wayland

1934: Edward Heawood

1932: A. P. Coleman

1930: Emmanuel de Margerie

1928: E. A. Reeves

1927: Charles Close

1924: J. F. Hayford

1922: John F. Baddeley

1920: H. St. J. L. Winterbotham

1919: J. W. Gregory

1917: John Keltie

1915: Hugh Robert Mill

1913: S. G. Burrard Indian Survey. For his distinguished contributions to geography and geodesy.

1912: George H. Darwin, for his investigations on tides and in geodesy.

1911: H. G. Lyons, Egyptian Survey. For his investigations of the River Nile and its basin

1909: Alexander Agassiz, for thirty years' work in oceanographical exploration

1906: W. M. Ramsay, for his investigation of the Ancient Geography of Asia Minor

1905: John George Bartholomew, for his efforts to raise the standard of cartography.

1903: Sven Hedin, for his exploration in Central Asia

1902: E. G. Ravenstein, for his efforts during 40 years to introduce scientific methods into the cartography of the United Kingdom

References

Victoria Medal (geography) Wikipedia

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