Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal

Award

Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal

Awarded for	the encouragement and reward of individual achievement in advancing knowledge of Cambrian or Precambrian life and its history
Country	United States
Presented by	National Academy of Sciences
First awarded	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.^[1]

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 Anton H. Westergaard [sv; de]
1947 Alexander G. Vologdin [ru; de]
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 Stefan Bengtson [sv; de; fr]
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. Retrieved 21 June 2015.

"NAS Award in Early Earth and Life Sciences". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2013-05-21. Retrieved 2013-03-30.

National Academy of Sciences

Awards

Biology and Medicine	Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics Gilbert Morgan Smith Medal Jessie Stevenson Kovalenko Medal Kimber Genetics Award [de] NAS Award in Molecular Biology NAS Award in the Neurosciences Richard Lounsbery Award Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology
Earth Sciences	Alexander Agassiz Medal Arthur L. Day Prize and Lectureship Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal G. K. Warren Prize Mary Clark Thompson Medal Charles Doolittle Walcott Medal Stanley Miller Medal
Engineering	Gibbs Brothers Medal NAS Award for the Industrial Application of Science J.C. Hunsaker Award in Aeronautical Engineering
Physical Sciences and Mathematics	Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics Arctowski Medal Comstock Prize in Physics Henry Draper Medal J. Lawrence Smith Medal James Craig Watson Medal NAS Award in Chemical Sciences NAS Award for Chemistry in Service to Society NAS Award in Mathematics William O. Baker Award for Initiatives in Research
Others	William and Katherine Estes Award Troland Research Awards Public Welfare Medal John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing