Linnean Medal

  The Linnean Medal (formerly referred to as the Gold Medal) of the Linnean Society of London was established in 1888, and is awarded annually to alternately a botanist or a zoologist or (as has been common since 1958) to one of each in the same year. The medal was of gold until 1976, and is for the preceding years often referred to as "the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society".

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Linnean Medalists

19th Century

• 1888: Sir Joseph D. Hooker and Sir Richard Owen
• 1889: Alphonse Louis Pierre Pyrame de Candolle
• 1890: Thomas Henry Huxley
• 1891: Jean Baptiste Édouard Bornet
• 1892: Alfred Russel Wallace
• 1893: Daniel Oliver
• 1894: Ernst Haeckel
• 1895: Ferdinand Julius Cohn
• 1896: George James Allman
• 1897: Jacob Georg Agardh
• 1898: George Charles Wallich
• 1899: John Gilbert Baker
• 1900: Alfred Newton

20th Century

• 1901: Sir George King
• 1902: Albert von Kölliker
• 1903: Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
• 1904: Albert C. L. G. Günther
• 1905: Eduard Strasburger
• 1906: Alfred Merle Norman
• 1907: Melchior Treub
• 1908: Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
• 1909: Frederick Orpen Bower
• 1910: Georg Ossian Sars
• 1911: Hermann Graf zu Solms-Laubach
• 1912: R. C. L. Perkins
• 1913: Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler
• 1914: Otto Butschli
• 1915: Joseph Henry Maiden
• 1916: Frank Evers Beddard
• 1917: Henry Brougham Guppy
• 1918: Frederick DuCane Godman
• 1919: Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour
• 1920: Sir Edwin Ray Lankester
• 1921: Dukinfield Henry Scott
• 1922: Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton
• 1923: Thomas Frederic Cheeseman
• 1924: William Carmichael McIntosh
• 1925: Francis Wall Oliver
• 1926: Edgar Johnson Allen
• 1927: Otto Stapf
• 1928: Edmund Beecher Wilson
• 1929: Hugo de Vries
• 1930: James Peter Hill
• 1931: Karl Ritter von Goebel
• 1932: Edwin Stephen Goodrich
• 1933: Robert Hippolyte Chodat
• 1934: Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer
• 1935: Sir David Prain
• 1936: John Stanley Gardiner
• 1937: Frederick Frost Blackman
• 1938: Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• 1939: Elmer Drew Merrill
• 1940: Sir Arthur Smith Woodward
• 1941: Sir Arthur George Tansley
• 1942: Award suspended
• 1946: William Thomas Calman and Frederick Ernest Weiss
• 1947: Maurice Jules Gaston Corneille Caullery
• 1948: Agnes Arber
• 1949: D. M. S. Watson
• 1950: Henry Nicholas Ridley
• 1951: Theodor Mortensen
• 1952: Isaac Henry Burkill
• 1953: Patrick Alfred Buxton
• 1954: Felix Eugene Fritsch
• 1955: Sir John Graham Kerr
• 1956: William Henry Lang
• 1957: Erik Stensiö
• 1958: Sir Gavin de Beer and William Bertram Turrill
• 1959: H.M. Fox and Carl Skottsberg
• 1960: Libbie H. Hyman and H. Hamshaw Thomas
• 1961: E.W. Mason and Sir Frederick Stratten Russell
• 1962: N.L. Bor and George Gaylord Simpson
• 1963: Sidnie M. Manton and W.H. Pearsall
• 1964: Richard E. Holttum and Carl Frederick Abel Pantin
• 1965: John Hutchinson and John Ramsbottom
• 1966: G.S. Carter and Sir Harry Godwin
• 1967: Charles Sutherland Elton and C.E. Hubbard
• 1968: A. Gragan and T.M. Harris
• 1969: Irene Manton and Ethelwyn Trewavas
• 1970: E.J.H. Corner and E.I. White
• 1971: C.R. Metcalfe and J.E. Smith
• 1972: A.R. Clapham and A.S. Romer
• 1973: G. Ledyard Stebbins and John.Z.Young
• 1974: E.H.W. Hennig and Josias Braun-Blanquet
• 1975: A.S. Watt and Philip M Sheppard
• 1976: William T. Stearn
• 1977: Ernst Mayr and T.G. Tutin
• 1978: O.K.H. Hedberg and Thomas Stanley Westoll
• 1979: R. McN. Alexander and P.W. Richards
• 1980: Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth and Roy Crowson
• 1981: B.L. Burtt and Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1982: P.H. Davis and P.H. Greenwood
• 1983: C.T. Ingold and M.J.D. White
• 1984: J.G. Hawkes and J.S. Kennedy
• 1985: Arthur Cain and Jeffrey B. Harborne
• 1986: Arthur Cronquist and P.C.C. Garnham
• 1987: G. Fryer and V.H. Heywood
• 1988: J.L. Harley and Sir Richard Southward
• 1989: William Donald Hamilton and Sir David Smith
• 1990: Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance and F. Gwendolen Rees
• 1991: W.G Chaloner and R.M. May
• 1992: Richard Evans Schultes and Stephen Jay Gould
• 1993: Barbara Pickersgill and L.P. Brower
• 1994: F.E. Round and Sir Alec John Jeffreys
• 1995: S.M. Walters and John Maynard Smith
• 1996: J. Heslop-Harrison and K. Vickerman
• 1997: E.S. Coen and Rosemary Helen Lowe-McConnell
• 1998: M.W. Chase and C. Patterson
• 1999: P.B. Tomlinson and Q. Bone
• 2000: B. Verdcourt and M.F. Claridge

21st Century

• 2001: C.J. Humphries and D.J. Nelson
• 2002: Sherwin Carlquist and W.J. Kennedy
• 2003: Pieter Baas and Bryan Campbell Clarke
• 2004: Geoffrey Allen Boxshall and John Dransfield
• 2005: Paula Rudall and Andrew Smith
• 2006: David J. Mabberley and Richard A. Fortey