The W. R. Browne Medal is awarded by the Geological Society of Australia "to a person distinguished for contributions to the geological sciences in Australia." The medal is named after William Rowan Browne.
Recipients
1979: Edwin Sherbon Hills 1981: Dorothy HillHill, Dorothy (1907 - 1997) 1981: Norman Henry Fisher 1984: Haddon King 1986: Germaine Joplin 1988: Basil Balme 1992: David Brown 1994: Allan White 1996: John R. De Laeter 1998: Cecil George Murray 2000: Alfons VandenBerg 2002: Brenda Franklin 2004: Ian Withnall 2006: Ken Campbell 2008: Jim Ross 2010: Anthony Cockbain 2012: John Foden 2014: Gavin Young 2016: Bryan Smith 2018: Neville Exon 2021: Peter Betts 2023: Anita Andrew 2026: Wolfgang Preiss
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