The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America to those who advance the study of geoscience.
Award Winners
- 2009 Clark Burchfiel
- 2008 George Thompson
- 2007 Kevin Burke
- 2006 Steve Kesler
- 2005 Minze Stuiver
- 2004 W. Gary Ernst
- 2003 Peter R. Vail
- 2002 Walter Alvarez
- 2001 Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
- 2000 Robert L. Folk
- 1999 M. Gordon Wolman
- 1998 Jack E. Oliver
- 1997 John D. Bredehoeft
- 1996 John R. L. Allen
- 1995 John C. Crowell
- 1994 Luna B. Leopold
- 1993 Alfred G. Fischer
- 1992 John Frederick Dewey
- 1991 William R. Dickinson
- 1990 Norman D. Newell
- 1989 Warren Bell Hamilton
- 1988 Robert S. Dietz
- 1987 Marland P. Billings
- 1986 Laurence L. Sloss
- 1985 Rudolf Trümpy
- 1984 Donald E. White
- 1983 G. Arthur Cooper
- 1982 Aaron C. Waters
- 1981 John Rodgers
- 1980 Hollis D. Hedberg
- 1979 J Harlen Bretz
- 1978 Robert M. Garrels
- 1977 Robert P. Sharp
- 1976 Preston Cloud
- 1975 Francis J. Pettijohn
- 1974 William Maurice Ewing
- 1973 M. King Hubbert
- 1972 Wilmot H. Bradley
- 1971 Marshall Kay
- 1970 Ralph Alger Bagnold
- 1969 Francis Birch
- 1968 J. Tuzo Wilson
- 1967 Herbert Harold Read
- 1966 Harry H. Hess
- 1965 Philip Burke King
- 1964 Donnel Foster Hewett
- 1963 William Walden Rubey
- 1962 Alfred Sherwood Romer
- 1961 Philip Henry Kuenen
- 1960 Walter Hermann Bucher
- 1959 Adolph Knopf
- 1958 James Gilluly
- 1957 Bruno Sander
- 1956 Arthur Holmes
- 1955 Maurice Gignoux
- 1954 Arthur Francis Buddington
- 1953 Esper S. Larsen, Jr.
- 1952 George Gaylord Simpson
- 1951 Pentti Eskola
- 1950 Morley Evans Wilson
- 1949 Wendell P. Woodring
- 1948 Hans Cloos
- 1947 Arthur Louis Day
- 1946 T. Wayland Vaughan
- 1945 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
- 1944 Bailey Willis
- 1943 No award given
- 1942 Charles Kenneth Leith
- 1941 Norman Levi Bowen
- 1940 Nelson Horatio Darton
- 1939 William Berryman Scott
- 1938 Andrew Cowper Lawson
- 1937 No award given
- 1936 Arthur Philemon Coleman
- 1935 Reginald Aldworth Daly
- 1934 Charles Schuchert
- 1933 Waldemar Lindgren
- 1932 Edward Oscar Ulrich
- 1931 William Morris Davis
- 1930 François Alfred Antoine Lacroix
- 1929 No award given
- 1928 Jakob Johannes Sederholm
- 1927 Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
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