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The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.

Past laureates include:

1831 William Smith
1836 Louis Agassiz
1838 Richard Owen
1851 Adam Sedgwick
1855 Joachim Barrande
1856 William Logan
1859 Charles Darwin
1864 Roderick Murchison
1896 Eduard Suess
1899 Charles Lapworth
1901 Charles Barrois
1987 Claude Jean Allègre
1992 Martin Harold Phillips Bott
1993 Samuel Epstein
1994 William Jason Morgan
1995 George Patrick Leonard Walker
1996 Nicholas John Shackleton
1997 Douglas James Shearman
1998 Karl Karekin Turekian
1999 John Frederick Dewey
2000 William Sefton Fyfe
2001 Harry Blackmore Whittington
2002 Rudolf Trumpy

The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831.

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