Symons Gold Medal

The Symons Gold Medal is awarded biennially by the Royal Meteorological Society for distinguished work in the field of meteorological science. ^[1]

It was established in 1901 in memory of George James Symons, a notable British meteorologist.

Recipients

Source (1978-): Royal Metereological Society

• 2023 Michael E. McIntyre ^[2]
• 2020 Sue Grimmond ^[3]
• 2018 Clive D. Rodgers ^[4]
• 2016 John Michael Wallace ^[5]
• 2014 Robert A. Houze
• 2012 Timothy Barnett
• 2010 John F. B. Mitchell
• 2008 Adrian J. Simmons
• 2006 Sir Brian J. Hoskins
• 2004 John S. A. Green
• 2002 Raymond Hide
• 2000 Keith A. Browning
• 1998 Philip Gerald Drazin
• 1996 Klaus Hasselmann
• 1994 John L. Monteith
• 1992 Douglas Lilly ^[6]
• 1990 John T. Houghton
• 1988 David Atlas
• 1986 Hubert H. Lamb
• 1984 Christian E. Junge
• 1982 Frank Pasquill
• 1980 Joseph Smagorinsky
• 1978 Frank H. Ludlam
• 1976 Kirill Yakovlevitch Kondratyev ^[7]
• 1975 Sir John Mason
• 1973 Edward Norton Lorenz ^[8]
• 1971 John Sawyer ^[9]
• 1969 Sverre Petterssen
• 1967 Charles Henry Brian Priestley ^[10]
• 1965 Sydney Chapman ^[11]
• 1963 Percival Albert Sheppard ^[12]
• 1961 Jule Gregory Charney ^[13]
• 1959 Sir Oliver Graham Sutton ^[14]
• 1957 Erik Palmén
• 1955 Reginald Cockcroft Sutcliffe ^[15]
• 1953 Carl-Gustav Arvid Rossby ^[16]
• 1951 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor ^[17]
• 1949 Tor Bergeron ^[18]
• 1947 David Brunt
• 1944 Charles William Blythe Normand ^[19]
• 1942 John Switzer Owens ^[20]
• 1940 Jacob Aall Bonnevie Bjerknes ^[21]
• 1938 Gordon M.B. Dobson
• 1936 Wilhelm Schmidt ^[22]
• 1934 Gibert Thomas Walker ^[23]
• 1932 Vilhelm F. K. Bjerknes ^[24]
• 1930 George C. Simpson ^[25]
• 1928 Hugo Hergesell ^[26]
• 1926 Ernest Gold ^[27]
• 1924 Takematsu Okada ^[28]
• 1922 Henry George Lyons ^[29]
• 1920 Hugo Hildebrand Hildebrandsson
• 1918 Hugh Robert Mill
• 1916 ?
• 1914 William Henry Dines ^[30]
• 1912 Cleveland Abbe ^[31]
• 1910 William Napier Shaw ^[32]
• 1908 Léon Teisserenc de Bort
• 1906 Sir Richard Strachey ^[33]
• 1904 Julius Hann ^[34]
• 1902 Alexander Buchan ^[35]

See also

• List of meteorology awards
• List of prizes named after people

References

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