Bancroft Award
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The award was endowed in 1968 to honour her late husband by the wife of Joseph Austin Bancroft (1882–1957), formerly Dawson Professor at McGill University. It is normally awarded on a biennial basis and consists of a presentation scroll and a cash award of CAD $2,500.[1]
Recipients
- 1968 - John Tuzo Wilson, FRSC[2]
- 1970 - David M. Baird, FRSC
- 1975 - E.R. Ward Neale, FRSC
- 1976 - Roger A. Blais
- 1978 - Frank Kenneth North
- 1980 - William W. Hutchison
- 1982 - Christopher R. Barnes, FRSC
- 1984 - Jack G. Souther
- 1986 - Derek York, FRSC
- 1990 - Steven D. Scott, FRSC
- 1992 - Godfrey S. Nowlan
- 1994 - Alan V. Morgan
- 1996 - Dale A. Russell
- 2000 - Jan Veizer, FRSC
- 2002 - John J. Clague, FRSC
- 2004 - William Richard Peltier, FRSC
- 2006 - David J. Dunlop, FRSC
- 2008 - Anthony E. Williams-Jones, FRSC
- 2010 - Frank C. Hawthorne
- 2014 - Guy Narbonne
- 2016 - Barbara Sherwood Lollar, FRSC
- 2018 - Michel Jébrak
- 2020 - Irena Creed, FRSC
- 2022 - Sandra M. Barr
- 2024 - Kurt Konhauser
See also
- List of geology awards
- List of geographers
- List of prizes named after people
- List of science and technology awards
References
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