The Leonard Medal honors outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields. It is awarded by the Meteoritical Society. It was established in 1962 to honor the first President of the Society, Frederick C. Leonard.

Leonard Medal Winners +Leonard Medal WinnersYearName1966Carlyle Smith Beals1967Harvey H. Nininger1968Ernst Öpik1969Harold C. Urey1970Fred L. Whipple1971E. L. Krinov1972Brian Harold Mason1973John Reynolds1974Edward Anders1975Gerald J. Wasserburg1976James R. Arnold1977Hans E. Suess1978John A. Wood1979Paul Ramdohr1980Heinrich Wänke1981George W. Wetherill1982Robert N. Clayton1983Johannes Geiss1984B. Y. Levin1985Eugene M. Shoemaker1986Ralph Belknap Baldwin1987Masatake Honda1988Klaus Keil1989Victor S. Safronov1990Peter Eberhardt1991Donald D. Clayton1992John T. Wasson1993Robert M. Walker1994Alastair Cameron1995Friedrich Begemann1996Donald E. Brownlee1997Ernst Zinner1998S. Ross Taylor1999Grenville Turner2000Günter W. Lugmair2001Harry Y. McSween Jr2002Donald D. Bogard2003Herbert Palme2004Michael Julian Drake2005Joseph I. Goldstein2006Michael J. Gaffey2007Michel Maurette2008Edward R. D. Scott2009Lawrence Grossman20102011François Robert2012Donald Burnett2013Ahmed El Goresy2014Roger Hewins2015Jeffrey N. Cuzzi2016Hiroko Nagahara2017Mark H. Thiemens2018Sasha Krot20192020Michael Zolensky2021Katharina Lodders2022Kevin McKeegan2023Andrew Davis2024Monica Grady

See also

List of astronomy awards Glossary of meteoritics

References