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	Wollaston Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.
		The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831.
		It was originally made of palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wollaston_Medal (70 words)

	Encyclopedia: Kingsley Dunham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dunham returned to the University of Durham in 1950 as Professor of Geology at a time when that (and other UK departments) were undergoing a period of rapid expansion.
		Geology (from Greek Î³Î·- (ge-, the earth) and Î»Î¿Î³Î¿Ï‚ (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it.
		He was awarded the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1976.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Kingsley-Dunham (1076 words)

	Science Fresh : Article '1894 in science' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1876 he commenced the publication of his great work, Handbuch der Palaeontologie, which was completed in 1893 in five volumes, the fifth volume on palaeobotany being prepared by WP Schimper and A Schenk.
		In 1899 he published Geschichte der Geologie und Palaeontologie bis Ende des 19 Jahrhunderts, a monumental history of the progress of geological science (Eng.
		Dr Zittel was from 1899 president of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and in 1894 he was awarded the Wollaston medal by the Geological Society of London.
	www.sci-fresh.net /DisplayArticle70531.html (371 words)

	List of prizes, medals, and awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
		National Medal of Technology - American award for leading innovators.
		Wollaston Medal - Geology (Geological Society of London)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_prizes__medals__and_awards (764 words)

	Wollaston Medal -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for (A science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks) geology, the highest award granted by the (Click link for more info and facts about Geological Society of London) Geological Society of London.
		The medal is named after (English chemist and physicist who discovered palladium and rhodium and demonstrated that static and current electricity are the same (1766-1828)) William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831.
		It was originally made of (A silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry) palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/W/Wo/Wollaston_Medal.htm (1512 words)

	AIM25: Royal Society: Buckland, William (1784-1856)
		In 1818, geology was publicly recognized by the establishment of a Readership in this science, and Buckland was the first appointee to the post.
		He knew, and corresponded with, the most eminent and active inquirers into geology, such as Rev J J Conybeare and Rev W D Conybeare, both of Christ Church, and Rev Benjamin Richardson of Farleigh Castle, near Bradford, and Rev Joseph Townsend of Pewsey, friends of William Smith.
		In 1848 his labours in geology were celebrated by the award of the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/18/5989.htm (621 words)

	1992 in science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		October 29 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Depo Provera for use as a contraceptive in the United States.
		Wollaston Medal for Geology: Martin Harold Phillips Bott
		This page was last modified 04:27, 21 June 2005.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/1992_in_science (77 words)

	BHC - Connie Martinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although this is a business book, the whole family can read it and discuss their opinions from their point of view and age, because it definitely provokes discussion.
		In 1831 he was awarded the first Wollaston Medal for being the “father of English geology”.
		It seems that Simon had studied geology at Oxford and thirty odd years ago his tutor, who is still alive, told him about this man who had been a genius without recognition or respect until late in his life, and the story had stayed with him.
	www.thebeverlyhillscourier.com /08232002/martinson.htm (1007 words)

	Geological Society - About Us - Society Awards 2001 - Citations & Replies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Juan Watterson, you are indeed a worthy recipient of the Murchison Medal.
		I have now spent over 30 years teaching geology to adult education students in Shropshire and the West Midlands and have found the experience incredibly rewarding when seeing people with no previous knowledge of geology suddenly realising the enormous scope of the subject and how it affects all our lives.
		In the early days of geology everyone was an amateur, and today these same people who often have learnt their skills in an extramural class, enrich our subject and continue to add, through their own researches, to the further understanding of geology.
	www.geolsoc.org.uk /template.cfm?name=Awards2001 (5107 words)

	Platinum Metals Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In 1831, the Geological Society of London, the world's oldest geological society, instituted the Wollaston Medal, its highest honour, and possibly the most prestigious award for any geologist to receive.
		It is awarded each year for outstanding achievement in geology.
		The first Wollaston Medal, made of gold, was awarded to William Smith, see Appendix.
	www.platinummetalsreview.com /dynamic/figure/view/47-4-175-183/F2 (82 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Snubbed by the gentlemanly Geological Society, Smith complained that "the theory of geology is in the possession of one class of men, the practice in another." Indeed, some members of the society went further than mere ostracism--they stole Smith's work.
		This may not seem like much, but the methods and knowledge that Smith acquired during his research and over decades of work were the building blocks for modern geology and for discovering everything we know about the geology of our planet.
		This book is filled with details of geology: rocks, strata, the ages of the earth, the Geological Society of London, etc. On one hand, this is a very interesting work.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0694522716/macinsearch08-20 (1398 words)

	History of geology--Gilbert
		Henry A. Ward, of Ward's Scientific Establishment, was his instructor for zoology and geology.
		In 1900, Gilbert won the Wollaston Medal, the Geological Society of London's most prestigious award.
		His work in California was some of his finest, and his reports on hydraulic mining were masterpieces of engineering geology.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/histgeol/gilbert/gilbert.htm (1153 words)

	George P.L. Walker awarded 1995 Wollaston Medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology is pleased to congratulate George P.L. Walker, Macdonald Professor of Volcanology, on his recent award of the 1995 Wollaston Medal.
		His early work included documenting the geological mechanism of sea-floor spreading by dyke injection and observations of burial metamorphism from zeolite zones that showed the inter-relationships of spreading, subsidence, tilting, and erosion.
		For these seminal contributions to the understanding of the geology of Iceland Walker was awarded the Order of the Falcon by the Icelandic government--the equivalent of a knighthood.
	www.soest.hawaii.edu /Illust/walker_medal.html (509 words)

	William Smith
		Unfortunately, Smith's map was overlooked at first by the scientific community of the time; his humble origins and limited education were an obstacle to success in learned society.
		Not until the later part of his life was his contribution to geology appreciated in full.
		His contribution may best be summed up this way: In 1831, the Geological Society of London instituted the Wollaston Medal, its highest honor, awarded each year for outstanding achievement in geology.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/smith.html (663 words)

	wikipedia:wikiproject years in science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Please note: the headings listed in the template are just the most common encountered yet in this project.
		If a category exists during a particular year, for example 1999 in science includes geology and computer science, but not chemistry or physics, please include it.
		If significant advances in a particluar science are currently unknown for a given year you can remove the heading at your option.(again, see 1999)
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Wikipedia:WikiProject_years_in_science.html (349 words)

	KPFK Past Show Archive
		Simon Winchester, author The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology is a book that humanizes the beginnings of a field of study dedicated to the science of the earth.
		Smith was born in 1769, received only a rudimentary education, and for most of his life was rejected by the establishment of scientists and well-born amateur geologists.
		Yet he was the first recipient of the Wollaston Medal, the most prestigious award in geology.
	old.kpfk.org /upcoming_arc20020819.html (825 words)

	Wollaston: 3D View of the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wollaston's Religion of Nature, which falls between Clarke's Discourse of the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion and Butler'...
		See live article Wollaston Medal The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.
		Wollaston, John G. Wollaston, John G. Conspiracy Truths.
	www.resolve3d.com /Regional/Europe/UnitedKingdom/England/Northamptonshire/Wollaston (458 words)

	Rocky Road: John Phillips
		In 1845, he won (like his uncle) the Wollaston Medal, the highest honor bestowed by the Geological Society of London.
		In 1856, he succeeded William Buckland as reader of geology at Oxford, a post he kept until his death.
		Besides a biography of his uncle, Phillips published Illustrations of the Geology of Yorkshire, Geology of Oxford and the valley of the Thames, Manual of Geology: Practical and Theoretical, and extensive monographs of marine fossils.
	www.strangescience.net /phillips.htm (1125 words)

	W.J.Sollas: Biographical sketch: History:Earth Sciences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Initially appointed as a Lecturer in Geology and Zoology, and also as Curator of Bristol Museum, he was promoted to Professor in 1880.
		In 1907, he was awarded to Geological Society's Wollaston Medal.
		Whilst in Bristol he prepared a valuable account of the geology of the Bristol District for a visit by the Geologists Association, published an account of a Silurian inlier near Cardiff, and described plesiosaurs in the collections of Bristol Museum.
	www.gly.bris.ac.uk /www/history/biogs/sollas.html (257 words)

	Reply to Mortenson
		And as to the subterranean waters ‘in abundance today’, Mortenson not only displays his ignorance of geology (of which he is attempting to be a historian), but also is diverting attention.
		I finally came to a point where I could either admit the facts of geology or remain a young-earther and know in my heart that I was not being truthful with myself or others.
		One other thing I find interesting is your comment on page 14 about geology being in its infancy and thus their knowledge was too limited to justify a theory of the whole earth.
	home.entouch.net /dmd/replymortenson.htm (3856 words)

	Powells.com Interviews - Simon Winchester
		Upon earning a degree in geology at Oxford, Simon Winchester, twenty-one years old, set off for Uganda to prospect for copper.
		Forty years and nineteen books later, in The Map That Changed the World Winchester returns to his original field of study, geology, digging up the story of William Smith and a map that forever altered our understanding of life on earth.
		I've always been romantically attracted to it, but at first it was an uphill task with geology, although I must say that I never imagined a book about lexicography would do as well as that one did.
	www.powells.com /authors/winchester.html (3480 words)

	Murchison \| Sir \| Roderick Impey \| 1792-1871\| baronet \| professor of geology, University of Edinburgh
		Once he had given up his passion for fox-hunting (he became one of the greatest fox hunters in the midland counties), Murchison, at the age of 32, turned his attention to science, devoting the rest of his life to geology.
		Murchison then went on expedition to Russia, Scandinavia and Finland, and collaborated with Von Keyserling and De Verneuil in The Geology of Russia and the Ural Mountains (1845).
		Murchison eventually endowed by bequest the Society's second highest award, the Murchison Medal, and had helped to establish the Murchison Professorship of Geology at the University of Edinburgh.
	www.nahste.ac.uk /isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P0179.html (352 words)

	Publications2
		vii-viii; Tumultuous times: geology in Ireland and the debate on the nature of basalt and other rocks of north-east Ireland between 1740 and 1816, pp.
		The geology and palaeontology of the passage tomb, with comments on the significance of the fossils and geological finds.
		Geological museums and their collections: rich sources for historians of geology.
	www.tcd.ie /Geology/lowgraph/2000publicationsb.htm (2831 words)

	3B Soft The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		If you like to read histories of the great age of scientific discovery, you'll enjoy this story of William Smith and his development of the world's first geology map.
		The bonus is the dustcover is actually a copy of his map.
		This book is about the birth of Geology as a science and its founder William Smith.
	www.3bsoft.com /book-0060931809.html (562 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 5/17/2001, Peter Wyllie
		For two years, from 1952 to 1954, including two long, dark winters without sunlight, expedition members were isolated in the frigid arctic.
		Wyllie has received numerous distinguished honors and awards throughout his career, including the Wollaston Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1982, and the Abraham-Gottlob-Werner Medaille of the German Mineralogical Society in 1987.
		The Roebling Medal, established in 1937 by the Mineralogical Society of America, signifies the highest recognition of achievement mineralogy can bestow.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR12155.html (626 words)

	Nobel Prize Medal The Nobel Prize medal for Physics Chemistry...
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		Nobel Prize Medal "The Nobel Prize medal for Physics, Chemistry, Physiology (or Medicine) and Literature"
		The humorous Ig Nobel Prize Ig Nobel Prize is a parody which annually honors research "that cannot or should not be repeated".
	www.biodatabase.de /NobelPrize (651 words)

	AIM25: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine: RAMSAY, Sir Andrew Crombie (1814-1891)
		Publications: include: The Geology of the Island of Arran, from original survey.
		System of arrangement: The records are arranged in sections as outlined in the scope and content.
		They were transferred from the Department of Geology to the College Archives in 1970.
	www.aim25.ac.uk /cats/3/1075.htm (253 words)

	199409NL -- The Creation Science Association For Mid-America (CSA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the 1790's Smith's rule-of-thumb for identifying rock strata was being formalized in Paris by Baron Cuvier and his friend Alexander Brongniart; their work was eventually published in English in 1810.
		In the meantime, Smith had managed to produce a remarkably accurate geological map of England and, in his old age, Smith was awarded the Wollaston Medal by the Geological Society of London -- ostensibly in recognition of his contribution to geology.
		He became a widely-travelled professor of geology and paleontology; he had studied under Ernst Haeckel and was thus a thorough-going Darwinist.
	www.csama.org /199409NL.HTM (2962 words)

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