Subject Awards
Recipients of the Appleton medal and prize
2008 Ann Wintle
Aberystwyth University
For her outstanding contribution in the development and application of luminescence properties of minerals as a geological
dating tool applicable to the past one million years. Full citation
Medallists - Chree medal and prize
2007 Michele K Dougherty
Imperial College, London
For her contributions to the field of planetary magnetic fields and atmospheres and their interactions with the solar wind,
in particular through scientific leadership of the Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons.
2006 David Gubbins
University of Leeds
For his contributions to our understanding of the dynamics and evolution of the Earth’s core through his work in
kinematic dynamo theory, thermodynamics and palaeomagnetism.
2005 Barbara A Maher
Lancaster University
For her pioneering contributions to the study of magnetic signals from the geological record as a means of determining
climatic changes.
2004 Joanna Dorothy Haigh
2003 Michael Lockwood
2002 Peter Thomas Woods
2001 Joseph Charles Farman, Brian Gerard Gardiner and Jonathan David Shanklin
1999 John Edward Harries
1997 John Michael David Coey
1995 Tudor Bowden Jones
1993 Alan Hugh Cook
1991 Lance Thomas
1989 John Nye
1987 Brian John Hoskins
1985 Adrian Edmund Gill
1983 William John Granville Beynon
1981 Keith Anthony Browning
1979 John Theodore Houghton
1977 Drummond Hoyle Matthews and Frederick John Vine
1975 Raymond Hide
1973 David Robert Bates
1971 Desmond George King-Hele
1969 Stanley Keith Runcorn
1967 John Herbert Chapman
1965 Basil John Mason
1963 Maurice Neville Hill
1961 Scott Ellsworth Forbush
1959 Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe
1957 Edward C Bullard
1955 David Forbes Martyn
1953 Julius Bartels
1951 George C Simpson
1949 Gordon Miller Bourne Dobson
1947 Edward V Appleton
1945 John Adam Fleming
1943 Basil Ferdinand Jamieson Schonland
1941 Sydney Chapman
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