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William Bowie Medal
AGU’s highest honor was established in 1939 in honor of William Bowie for his spirit of helpfulness and friendliness in unselfish cooperative research. In addition to being the first president of AGU (1920–1922), Bowie was also the first recipient of this medal. The Bowie Medal is awarded not more than once annually to an individual for “outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research,” one of the guiding principles of AGU.
William Bowie was a distinguished geodesist who was not only one of the founders of the American Geophysical Union and the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics but was also an architect of international cooperation in geophysical research.
- Presented to one medalist annually.
- For outstanding contributions to fundamental geophysics and for unselfish cooperation in research.
Recipients
- 2011 Louis J. Lanzerotti
- 2010 Syukuro Manabe
- 2009 Ignacio Rodríguez-Iturbe
- 2008 Gerald J. Wasserburg
- 2007 Susan Solomon
- 2006 Carl Wunsch
- 2005 Johannes Geiss
- 2004 Keiiti Aki
- 2003 Donald L. Turcotte
- 2002 Adam M. Dziewonski
- 2001 Dan McKenzie
- 2000 John A. Simpson
- 1999 J. Freeman Gilbert
- 1998 Richard M. Goody
- 1997 Raymond Hide
- 1996 Eugene Shoemaker
- 1995 Claude Allégre
- 1994 Peter S. Eagleson
- 1993 Irwin I. Shapiro
- 1992 Alfred O. Nier
- 1991 Don L. Anderson
- 1990 Eugene N. Parker
- 1989 Walter H. Munk
- 1988 Hannes Alfven
- 1987 Robert N. Clayton
- 1986 James C. I. Dooge
- 1985 H. William Menard
- 1984 Marcel Nicolet
- 1983 Syun-iti Akimoto
- 1982 Henry M. Stommel
- 1981 Herbert Friedman
- 1980 Charles A. Whitten
- 1979 Frank Press
- 1978 Helmut E. Landsberg
- 1977 James A. Van Allen
- 1976 Jule G. Charney
- 1975 Edward Bullard
- 1974 A.E. Ringwood
- 1973 George P. Woollard
- 1972 Carl Eckart
- 1971 Inge Lehmann
- 1970 Bernhard Haurwitz
- 1969 Walter B. Langbein
- 1968 Roger Revelle
- 1967 Lloyd V. Berkner
- 1966 Louis B. Slichter
- 1965 Hugo Benioff
- 1964 Julius Bartels
- 1963 Merle Antony Tuve
- 1962 Sydney Chapman
- 1961 Keith Edward Bullen
- 1960 Francis Birch
- 1959 Walter M. Elsasser
- 1958 Johannes Theodoor Thijsse
- 1957 William Maurice Ewing
- 1956 Weikko Aleksanteri Heiskanen
- 1955 Walter Hermann Bucher
- 1954 Richard Montgomery Field
- 1953 Beno Gutenberg
- 1952 Harold Jeffreys
- 1951 Harald Ulrik Sverdrup
- 1950 Leason Heberling Adams
- 1949 Walter Davis Lambert
- 1948 James Bernard Macelwane
- 1947 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
- 1946 Reginald Aldworth Daly
- 1945 Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes
- 1944 Henry Bryant Bigelow
- 1943 Oscar Edward Meinzer
- 1942 Nicholas Hunter Heck
- 1941 John Adam Fleming
- 1940 Arthur Louis Day
- 1939 William Bowie