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The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London. The medal is named after William Hyde Wollaston, and was first awarded in 1831. It was originally made of gold (1831–1845), then palladium, a metal discovered by Wollaston (1846–1860). Next in gold again (1861–1929) and then in palladium again (1930–present). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Charles Darwin
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Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
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Charles Lyell
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William Edmond Logan
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Gideon Mantell
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Ralph Alger Bagnold
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James Lovelock
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Robert Mallet
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Ferdinand von Richthofen
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Louis Agassiz
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Richard Owen
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Herbert Harold Read
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Christian Leopold von Buch
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Andrew H. Knoll
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Arthur Smith Woodward
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