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Geological Society of London

Index Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom. [1]

64 relations: A. E. Trueman, Aberconway Medal, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Harker, Archibald Geikie, Arthur Aikin, Askesian Society, Association of Applied Geochemists, Bigsby Medal, British Society for Geomorphology, Burlington House, Charles Lapworth, Charles Lyell, Chartered Scientist, Covent Garden, Edinburgh Geological Society, European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, Frederick William Shotton, Freemasons' Tavern, Gaia hypothesis, Geological Society of Glasgow, Geological Society of London, Geology of Great Britain, Geology Today, George Bellas Greenough, George IV of the United Kingdom, Geoscientist (magazine), Great Queen Street, Henry De la Beche, Herbert Harold Read, Humphry Davy, Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon, James Lovelock, James Parkinson, Joseph Prestwich, Journal of the Geological Society, Learned society, London, Lyell Medal, Mayfair, Murchison Medal, Petroleum Geoscience, Piccadilly, Post-nominal letters, Prestwich Medal, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology, Richard Fortey, Richard Phillips (chemist), Roderick Murchison, Science Council, ..., Sue Tyler Friedman Medal, The Murchison Fund, Thomas Henry Huxley, United Kingdom, Wiley-Blackwell, William Allen (Quaker), William Babington (physician), William Buckland, William Haseldine Pepys, William Phillips (geologist), William Smith (geologist), William Smith Medal, Wollaston Medal, Yorkshire Geological Society. Expand index (14 more) »

A. E. Trueman

Sir Arthur Elijah Trueman (26 April 1894 – 5 January 1956) was a British geologist.

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Aberconway Medal

The Aberconway Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London, formerly awarded annually by the Institution of Geologists but since that Institution's merger with the Geological Society in 1991 it has been awarded biennually by that Society.

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Adam Sedgwick

Adam Sedgwick (22 March 1785 – 27 January 1873) was a British priest and geologist, one of the founders of modern geology.

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Alfred Harker

Alfred Harker FRS (19 February 1859 – 28 July 1939) was an English geologist who specialised in petrology and interpretive petrography.

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Archibald Geikie

Sir Archibald Geikie (28 December 183510 November 1924), was a Scottish geologist and writer.

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Arthur Aikin

Arthur Aikin, FLS, FGS (19 May 177315 April 1854) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer, and was a founding member of the Chemical Society (now the Royal Society of Chemistry).

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Askesian Society

The Askesian Society — was a debating club for scientific thinkers in London (1796-1807).

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Association of Applied Geochemists

The Association of Applied Geochemists (AAG) is an international society that seeks to advance the study and application of geochemistry and represents scientists working in that field.

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Bigsby Medal

The Bigsby Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London established by John Jeremiah Bigsby.

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British Society for Geomorphology

The British Society for Geomorphology (BSG), incorporating the British Geomorphological Research Group (BGRG), is the professional organisation for British geomorphologists and provides a community and services for those involved in teaching or research in geomorphology, both in the UK and overseas.

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Burlington House

Burlington House is a building on Piccadilly in Mayfair, London.

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Charles Lapworth

Prof Charles Lapworth FRS LLD FGS (20 September 1842 – 13 March 1920) was an English geologist who pioneered faunal analysis using index fossils and identified the Ordovician period.

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Charles Lyell

Sir Charles Lyell, 1st Baronet, (14 November 1797 – 22 February 1875) was a Scottish geologist who popularised the revolutionary work of James Hutton.

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Chartered Scientist

Chartered Scientist (CSci) is a professional qualification in the United Kingdom that is awarded by the Science Council through its Licensed member organisations.

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Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district in Greater London, on the eastern fringes of the West End, between Charing Cross Road and Drury Lane.

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Edinburgh Geological Society

The Edinburgh Geological Society (EGS) was founded in 1834 in Edinburgh, Scotland, with the aim of stimulating public interest in geology and the advancement of geological knowledge.

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European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers

The European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) is a multi-disciplinary professional association for geoscientists and engineers.

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Frederick William Shotton

Professor Frederick William Shotton FRS (1906–1990) was a British geologist.

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Freemasons' Tavern

The Freemasons' Tavern was established in 1775 at 61-65 Great Queen Street.

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Gaia hypothesis

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

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Geological Society of Glasgow

The Geological Society of Glasgow is a scientific society devoted to the study of geology in Scotland.

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Geological Society of London

The Geological Society of London, known commonly as the Geological Society, is a learned society based in the United Kingdom.

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Geology of Great Britain

The geology of Great Britain is renowned for its diversity.

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Geology Today

Geology Today is a publication of the Geological Society of London and the Geologists' Association.

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George Bellas Greenough

George Bellas Greenough FRS FGS (18 January 1778 – 2 April 1855) was a pioneering English geologist.

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George IV of the United Kingdom

George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover following the death of his father, King George III, on 29 January 1820, until his own death ten years later.

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Geoscientist (magazine)

Geoscientist is a monthly magazine produced for the Fellowship of the Geological Society of London.

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Great Queen Street

Great Queen Street is a street in the West End of central London in England.

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Henry De la Beche

Sir Henry Thomas De la Beche KCB, FRS (10 February 179613 April 1855) was an English geologist and palaeontologist, the first director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, who helped pioneer early geological survey methods.

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Herbert Harold Read

Herbert Harold Read FRS, FRSE, FGS, (17 December 1889, in Whitstable – 29 March 1970) was a British geologist and Professor of Geology at Imperial College.

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Humphry Davy

Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet (17 December 177829 May 1829) was a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year, as well as discovering the elemental nature of chlorine and iodine.

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Jacques Louis, Comte de Bournon

Jacques-Louis, Comte de Bournon FRS, FGS (January 21, 1751 – 24 August 1825) was a French soldier and mineralogist who came to England after the French Revolution.

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James Lovelock

James Ephraim Lovelock, (born 26 July 1919) is an independent scientist, environmentalist, and futurist who lives in Dorset, England.

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James Parkinson

James Parkinson FGS (11 April 175521 December 1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist, who is best known for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson's disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.

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Joseph Prestwich

Sir Joseph Prestwich, FRS (12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.

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Journal of the Geological Society

The Journal of the Geological Society is a peer-reviewed scientific journal which covers research in all aspects of the Earth sciences.

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Learned society

A learned society (also known as a learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organisation that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lyell Medal

The Lyell Medal is a prestigious annual scientific medal given by the Geological Society of London, equal in status to the Murchison Medal.

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Mayfair

Mayfair is an affluent area in the West End of London towards the east edge of Hyde Park, in the City of Westminster, between Oxford Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly and Park Lane.

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Murchison Medal

The Murchison Medal is an academic award established by Roderick Murchison, who died in 1871.

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Petroleum Geoscience

Petroleum Geoscience is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of London and the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers.

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Piccadilly

Piccadilly is a road in the City of Westminster, London to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east.

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Post-nominal letters

Post-nominal letters, also called post-nominal initials, post-nominal titles or designatory letters, are letters placed after a person's name to indicate that that individual holds a position, academic degree, accreditation, office, military decoration, or honour, or is a member of a religious institute or fraternity.

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Prestwich Medal

The Prestwich Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London established in the will of Joseph Prestwich "to apply the accumulated annual proceeds…at the end of every three years, in providing a Gold Medal to the value of Twenty Pounds which, with the remainder of the proceeds is to be awarded… to the person or persons either male or female, and either resident in England or abroad, who shall have done well for the advancement of the Science of Geology; or, from time to time to accumulate the annual proceeds for a period not exceeding six years, and apply the said accumulated annual proceeds to some object of special research bearing on Stratigraphical or Physical Geology, to be carried out by one single individual or by a Committee; or, failing these objects, to accumulate the annual proceeds for either three or six years and devote such proceeds to such special purposes as may be decided".

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Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology

The Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of London.

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Richard Fortey

Richard Alan Fortey FRS FRSL (born 15 February 1946 in London) is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as President of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007; he is married and has four children.

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Richard Phillips (chemist)

Richard Phillips FRS FRSE FCS FGS (21 November 1778 – 11 May 1851), was a distinguished British chemist and became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1822.

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Roderick Murchison

Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA (22 February 1792 – 22 October 1871) was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.

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Science Council

The Science Council is a UK organisation that was established by Royal Charter in 2003.

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Sue Tyler Friedman Medal

The Sue Tyler Friedman Medal is awarded by the Geological Society of London for work on the history of geology.

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The Murchison Fund

The Murchison Fund is an award given by the Geological Society of London to researchers under the age of 40 who have contributed substantially to the study of hard rock and tectonic geology.

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Thomas Henry Huxley

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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William Allen (Quaker)

William Allen (29 August 1770 – 30 September 1843) was an English scientist and philanthropist who opposed slavery and engaged in schemes of social and penal improvement in early nineteenth-century England.

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William Babington (physician)

William Babington FRS FGS (21 May 1756 – 29 April 1833) was an Anglo-Irish physician and mineralogist.

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William Buckland

William Buckland DD, FRS (12 March 1784 – 14 August 1856) was an English theologian who became Dean of Westminster.

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William Haseldine Pepys

William Haseldine Pepys FGS FRS (23 March 1775 – July 1856) FRS (or William Hasledine Pepys) was an English scientist and founder of learned institutions who contributed significantly to the advancement of the chemical and physical sciences during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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William Phillips (geologist)

William Phillips FGS FRS (10 May 1775 – 2 April 1828) was an English mineralogist and geologist.

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William Smith (geologist)

William 'Strata' Smith (23 March 1769 – 28 August 1839) was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map.

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William Smith Medal

The William Smith Medal is a medal of the Geological Society of London, awarded for outstanding research in applied or economic geology.

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Wollaston Medal

The Wollaston Medal is a scientific award for geology, the highest award granted by the Geological Society of London.

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Yorkshire Geological Society

The Yorkshire Geological Society is a learned, professional and educational charity devoted to the earth sciences, founded in 1837.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_Society_of_London

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