Coppock Research Medal Coppock Research Medal: the highest research-specific award, for an outstanding contribution to geographical knowledge through research and publication. This was awarded first in 1931 as the Research Medal, from 1989 as the Centenary Medal, and from 2009 as the Coppock Research Medal, named in honour of Professor J Terence Coppock CBE. Its recipients include Professor Alan G Ogilvie OBE, Professor J Wreford Watson, and Professor Bill Ruddiman. 2021 Professor Christopher Philo 2019 Professor Doug Benn 2018 Professor Kevin Edwards 2014 Professor Colin K Ballantyne 2013 Professor Bill Ruddiman 2011 Professor David E Sugden 2009 Professor Michael Pacione previously known as the Centenary Medal 2008 Professor Charles W J Withers 2007 Professor Peter Dicken 2006 Professor Harold Brookfield 2005 Professor Leszek Starkel 2004 Professor David Woodward 2003 Professor Doreen Massey 2002 Professor David W Harvey 2001 Professor Anne Buttimer 2000 Professor Michael F Thomas 1999 Professor Chalmers Clapperton 1998 Professor David N Livingstone 1997 Professor Paul Claval 1996 Professor Billie Lee Turner II 1995 Rear Admiral Nigel Essenhigh 1994 Professor Akin L Mabogunje 1993 Professor Peter Odell 1992 Professor David Rhind 1991 Professor N Kingo Jacobsen 1990 Dr Ronald F Abler 1989 Professor Gilbert F White previously known as the Research Medal 1988 Professor W R Mead 1987 Professor Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier 1984 Donald G Moir 1979 Dr Bradford Washburn and Mrs Washburn 1972 Dr Cornelis Koeman 1969 Dr John Brian Sissons 1965 R A Skelton 1964 Professor Arthur E Smailes 1962 Professor J Wreford Watson 1956 Gerald Roe Crone 1954 The Revd James I Macnair DD 1948 Professor Alexander Stevens MA BSc 1946 Marcel Aurousseau 1944 Professor Alan G Ogilvie OBE 1939 Professor Herbert John Fleure DSc FRS 1937 Dr Alexander Bremner DSc 1936 Clement Gillman 1933 Edward Heawood MA 1932 Professor John L Myers DSc 1931 Jules de Schokolsky DSc Manage Cookie Preferences