Year Recipient 1978 Cecil Howard Green[5] 1979 C. Hewitt Dix 1981 J. Tuzo Wilson[6] 1982 Frank Press[7] 1983 Harry Mayne 1984 L. L. Nettleton 1985 Nigel Anstey[8] 1986 J. E. White 1987 Arthur A. Brant 1988 Franklyn K. Levin 1989 Sven Treitel 1990 Milo M. Backus 1991 Theodore C. Krey 1992 Jon Claerbout[9] 1993 M. Turhan Taner 1995 Harold O. Seigel 1996 Ken Larner 1997 Thomas R. LaFehr 1998 Robert E. Sheriff[10] 1999 Gerald H. F. Gardner 2000 Stanley H. Ward 2001 Enders A. Robinson 2002 Gordon F. West 2003 Guus Berkhout[11] 2004 Vlastislav Cervený 2005 Robert J. Graebner 2006 Fred Hilterman 2007 Roy Oliver Lindseth 2008 John W. C. Sherwood 2009 David Strangway[12] 2010 Anthony R. Barringer[13] 2010 M. Nafi Toksöz 2011 Amos M. Nur 2012 George A. McMechan 2013 Peter Hubral 2014 Norman Bleistein 2015 Manik Talwani 2016 Arthur Weglein[14] 2017 Samuel Gray 2018 Albert Tarantola[15] 2019 Robert H. Stolt 2020 Leon Thomsen