International Meteorological Organization Prize

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The International Meteorological Organization Prize is awarded annually by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) for outstanding contributions in the field of meteorology and, since 1971, the field of operational hydrology. [1]

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The prize, established in 1956, consists of a 14-carat gold medal 57mm in diameter, displaying the official WMO emblem and on the reverse the Latin inscription Pro singulari erga scientiam meteorologicam merito (for outstanding work on the science of meteorology), together with a cash award of 10,000 Swiss Francs. It was named to commemorate the International Meteorological Organization, the predecessor organisation of the current World Meteorological Organization.

Prizewinners

Source: WMO

2022 Sue Barrell
2021 In-Sik Kang
2020 David Grimes
2019 Sergej Zilitinkevich
2018 Antonio Divino Moura [2]
2017 Gordon McBean [3]
2016 Zeng Qing-Cun [4]
2015 Julia Slingo [5]
2014 Alexander Bedritsky
2013 Tillmann Mohr [6]
2012 Zaviša Janjić [7]
2011 Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen [8]
2010 Taroh Matsuno [9]
2009 Eugenia Kalnay [10]
2008 Qin Dahe [11]
2007 Jagadish Shukla [12]
2006 Lennart Bengtsson
2005 John Zillman
2004 Bennert Machenhauer
2003 Ye Duzheng
2002 Joanne Simpson
2001 Mohammad Hassan Ganji
2000 Edward Norton Lorenz
1999 James Dooge
1998 John T. Houghton
1997 Mariano A. Estoque
1996 T.N. Krishnamurti
1995 Roman Kintanar
1994 James P. Bruce
1993 Verner E. Suomi
1992 Yuri Izrael
1991 Ragnar Fjørtoft
1990 Richard E. Hallgren
1989 Pisharoth Rama Pisharoty
1988 F. Kenneth Hare [13]
1987 Mikhail Ivanovich Budyko [14]
1986 Hermann Flohn
1985 David Arthur Davies
1984 Thomas F. Malone [15]
1983 Muhamed F. Taha and J.J. Burgos
1982 William James Gibbs
1981 Bert Bolin
1980 Robert M. White
1979 Helmut Landsberg [16]
1978 Alf.E.G.E. Nyberg
1977 George P. Cressman
1976 E.K. Fedorov
1975 Warren L. Godson
1974 Joseph Smagorinsky
1973 Charles Henry Brian Priestley and John S. Sawyer
1972 Victor Antonovich Bugaev
1971 Jule G. Charney [17]
1970 Richard Th. A. Scherhag
1969 Erik Palmén
1968 Graham Sutton
1967 Kirill Y. Kondratyev
1966 Tor Bergeron
1965 Sverre Petterssen
1964 Francis Reichelderfer
1963 Reginald Sutcliffe
1962 Anders Knutsson Ångström
1961 K.R. Ramanathan
1960 Jacques van Mieghem
1959 Jacob Bjerknes [18]
1958 Ernest Gold
1957 Carl-Gustaf Arvid Rossby
1956 Hans Theodor Hesselberg

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