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.
[edit] Past recipients
- 2009: Professor Philip Rees, for research on population geography and demography[1]
- 2008: Professor Linda McDowell, for research in socio-economic and feminist geography[2]
- 2007: Professor Peter Jackson, for research on social geography[3]
- 2006: Professor Jim Rose, for contributions to quaternary research[4]
- 2005: Professor Ray Hudson, for research on regional and industrial change in the UK and wider Europe[5]
- 2004: Professor Michael Watts, for research on political economy, culture and power[6]
- 2003: Professor Nigel Thrift[7]
- 2002: Professor Angela Gurnell[8]
- 2001: Professor Peter Dicken[8]
- 2000: Professor Des Walling[9]
- 1998: Professor Ian Simmons[8]
- 1996: Professor Ronald Abler, for his contribution to human geography and enhancement of links between British and American geography[10][11]
- 1995: Dr Helen Wallis[8]
- 1994: Professor Doreen Massey[12]
- 1992: Professor John Goddard[13]
- 1990: Professor Ron J. Johnston[14]
- 1989: Professor David Simonett[15]
- 1988: Professor Brian Berry[8]
- 1987: Professor Emeritus Chauncy Harris[8]
- 1986: Professor Ren Mei'e[8]
- 1984: Professor Richard Hartshorne[8]
- 1980: Professor Jean Gottman[8]
- 1979: Professor Torsten Hägerstrand[8]
- 1975: Professor Emeritus C.O.Sauer[8]
- 1973: Professor E.Estyn Evans [16]
- 1970: Dr Raleigh Ashlin Skelton[8]
- 1963: Professor H.C.Darby[17]
- 1962: Professor Carl Troll[18]
- 1957: Professor S.W.Wooldridge[19]
- 1948: Professor Frank Debenham[20]
- 1946: Professor H.J.Fleure, for distinguished service in the advancement of geographical education and valuable researches into the human aspects of geography[21]
- 1938: Arthur Hinks[22]
- 1917: John Keltie s:The Times/1927/Obituary/John Scott Keltie
- 1905: John George Bartholomew[23]
- c1903: Sven Hedin[24]
- 1869: Mary Somerville [25]
[edit] References
Royal Geographical Society's page of links to lists of past recipients.
- ^ "2009 Medals & Awards winners". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/AboutUs/Medals+and+Awards/2009+recipients.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
- ^ "Medals and Awards 2008". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/65AE10AD-0420-418A-BFB0-46EB93BBF974/0/MandAwinnerslist2008.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
- ^ "Medals and Awards 2007". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/FC4C01AA-8C7B-4D7D-AA01-AC3779AFEEE4/0/MAwinnerslist2007.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Medals and Awards 2006". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/9D1AC91E-6B28-4E2C-B54D-7BCC3DBBD894/0/MedalsandAwards2006.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Medals and Awards 2005". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/42561FD8-2BE0-4F1E-A64E-9D1680527BB0/0/MedalsandAwards2005Recipients.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Medals and Awards 2004". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/CCA0FED4-84E2-4F05-AA85-D682DF04D7C7/0/MedalsandAwards2004.pdf. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift". University of Warwick. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/vco/vc/. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Medals and Awards Recipients 1970-2009". Royal Geographical Society. http://www.rgs.org/NR/rdonlyres/4A91B020-42FB-40D3-BE0F-6097411726D4/0/MedalandAwardRecipients1970to2009.pdf. Retrieved 2010-07-01. (See pdf's page 3.)
- ^ "Department of Geography - Staff". University of Exeter. http://sogaer.exeter.ac.uk/geography/people/staff/d_walling/main.shtml. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Biographies". International Geographical Union. http://www.igu-net.org/uk/what_is_igu/biographies.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ Lynne Williams (7 June 1996). "Awards". Times Higher Education. http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=93913§ioncode=26. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Staff Profile Prof Doreen Massey". Open University. http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/people-profile.php?name=Doreen_Massey. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Prof John Goddard Professor of Regional Development Studies". Newcastle University. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/staff/profile/john.goddard. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Prof Ron Johnston". University of Bristol. http://www.ggy.bris.ac.uk/personal/RonJohnston. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "David Simonett, Ph.D.". AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group. http://www.aagrssg.org/cntr_awards/ds_awrd.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Emyr Estyn Evans (1905-1989)". Queen's University Belfast. http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/Staff/HonoraryFellows/EmyrEstynEvans/. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Darby, Prof. Sir (Henry) Clifford". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 2004. http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U171975?. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Troll, Carl (Germany 1899-1975) phytogeography". Western Kentucky University. http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/TROL1899.htm. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ Elizabeth Baigent (2004). "Wooldridge, Sidney William (1900–1963)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37017. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ Walsh, G P (1993), "Debenham, Frank (1883 - 1965)", Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne University Press) 13: pp. 602–603, http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130672b.htm, retrieved 2009-06-26
- ^ "Royal Geographical Society: Awards for 1945-46". Nature. 18 May 1946. p. p651. doi:10.1038/157651c0. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v157/n3994/abs/157651c0.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "Arthur Hinks Collection". The Archives Hub. http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/news/0705hinks.html. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ "The Bartholomew Archive". National Library of Scotland. http://www.nls.uk/bartholomew/family/index.html#johngeorge. Retrieved 2009-06-26.
- ^ Weinberg, Roberto F; Green, Owen R (2002), "The Central Asiatic (Tibet, Xinjiang, Pamir) petroligical collections of Sven Hedin (1865-1952) - Swedish explorer and adventurer", Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (Pergamon) 20: p. 297–308, http://eprints.ouls.ox.ac.uk/archive/00000989/01/JAES_297-308_2002.pdf, retrieved 2009-06-26
- ^ Freeman, T. W. (1966), "Baker, J.N.L. The history of geography", Cahiers de géographie du Québec (Erudit) 10 No 20: p. 352, http://www.erudit.org/revue/cgq/1966/v10/n20/020647ar.pdf, retrieved 2009-06-26
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