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Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal

Award by the National Academy of Sciences

Summary

Award by the National Academy of Sciences

Field	Value
name	Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal
image	CDWalcottMedal.png
awarded_for	the encouragement and reward of individual achievement in advancing knowledge of Cambrian or Precambrian life and its history
presenter	National Academy of Sciences
country
year	1934
website	http://www.nasonline.org/about-nas/awards/early-earth-and-life-sciences.html

Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal is an award presented by the National Academy of Sciences every five years to promote research and study in the fields of Precambrian and Cambrian life and history.

The medal was established and endowed in 1934 by the Walcott Fund, a gift of Mary Vaux Walcott, in honor of paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927). The medal was sculpted by Laura Gardin Fraser.

Since 2008 the award has been linked to the Stanley Miller Medal and the two medals are now presented alternately, known collectively as the NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences. Each medal is supplemented by a $10,000 award.

Medalists

Source: NAS

1934 David White
1939
1947
1952 Franco Rasetti
1957 Pierre Hupé
1962 Armin Öpik
1967 Allison R. Palmer
1972 Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn
1977 Preston Cloud
1982 Martin Glaessner
1987 Andrew H. Knoll and Simon Conway Morris
1992
1997 Mikhail A. Fedonkin
2002 Hans J. Hofmann
2007 John Grotzinger
2013 J. William Schopf
2022 Mary Droser

References

"The Stanley Miller Medal is scheduled for presentation in 2016". NAS.

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