The William Bowie Medal is awarded annually by the American Geophysical Union for "outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research". The award is the highest honor given by the AGU and is named in honor of William Bowie, one of the co-founders of the Union.[1]
Past recipients
editSource: AGU
- 1939William Bowie[2]
- 1940Arthur Louis Day
- 1941John Adam Fleming
- 1942Nicholas Hunter Heck
- 1943Oscar Edward Meinzer
- 1944Henry Bryant Bigelow
- 1945Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes
- 1946Reginald Aldworth Daly
- 1947Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
- 1948James B. Macelwane
- 1949Walter Davis Lambert
- 1950Leason Heberling Adams
- 1951Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
- 1952Harold Jeffreys
- 1953Beno Gutenberg
- 1954Richard Montgomery Field
- 1955Walter Hermann Bucher
- 1956Weikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
- 1957William Maurice Ewing
- 1958Johannes Theodoor Thijsse(nl:Jo Thijsse)
- 1959Walter M. Elsasser
- 1960Francis Birch
- 1961Keith Edward Bullen
- 1962Sydney Chapman
- 1963Merle Antony Tuve
- 1964Julius Bartels
- 1965Hugo Benioff[3]
- 1966Louis B. Slichter
- 1967Lloyd Berkner
- 1968Roger Revelle
- 1969Walter B. Langbein
- 1970Bernhard Haurwitz
- 1971Inge Lehmann
- 1972Carl Eckart
- 1973 George P. Woollard
- 1974 A.E. Ringwood
- 1975 Edward Bullard
- 1976 Jule G. Charney
- 1977 James A. Van Allen
- 1978 Helmut E. Landsberg
- 1979 Frank Press
- 1980 Charles A. Whitten
- 1981Herbert Friedman
- 1982Henry M. Stommel
- 1983Syun-iti Akimoto(ja:秋本俊一)
- 1984Marcel Nicolet
- 1985H. William Menard
- 1986James Dooge
- 1987Robert N. Clayton
- 1988Hannes Alfven
- 1989Walter H. Munk
- 1990Eugene N. Parker
- 1991Don L. Anderson
- 1992Alfred O. Nier
- 1993Irwin I. Shapiro
- 1994Peter S. Eagleson
- 1995Claude Allègre
- 1996Eugene Shoemaker
- 1997Raymond Hide
- 1998Richard M. Goody
- 1999J. Freeman Gilbert[4]
- 2000John Alexander Simpson
- 2001Dan McKenzie
- 2002Adam M. Dziewonski
- 2003Donald L. Turcotte
- 2004Keiiti Aki
- 2005Johannes Geiss(de:Johannes Geiss)
- 2006Carl Wunsch
- 2007Susan Solomon[5]
- 2008Gerald J. Wasserburg
- 2009Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe
- 2010 Syukuro Manabe
- 2011 Louis J. Lanzerotti
- 2012 Anny Cazenave
- 2013 Raymond Roble
- 2014 Hiroo Kanamori
- 2015 Wilfried H. Brutsaert
- 2016 Stanley Robert Hart
- 2017 did not award
- 2018 Daniel N. Baker
- 2019 Barbara Romanowicz
- 2020 Rita Colwell
- 2021 James L. Burch
- 2022 David J. Stevenson
- 2023 William E. Dietrich
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "William Bowie Medal". Honors program. American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "William Bowie Medal: Past recipients". Honors program. American Geophysical Union. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
- ^ "Bowie Medal". Physics Today. 18 (8): 46. 1965. doi:10.1063/1.3047599.
- ^ "TRANSITIONS". Seismological Research Letters. 70 (5): 487–487. 1 September 1999. doi:10.1785/gssrl.70.5.487.
- ^ "Susan Solomon Honored as AGU's 2007 William Bowie Medalist". CSD News & Events. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 16 July 2007. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
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