The Walter H. Bucher Medal is an annual award to one honoree from the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for "original contributions to the basic knowledge of the crust and lithosphere." (For many years the medal was awarded every two years.)
The inaugural Bucher Medal was awarded in 1968 to J. Tuzo Wilson. From 1975 to 1995 and from 1996 to 2018 the medal was awarded every two years. The medal was established in 1966 (the year after Walter H. Bucher's death).
The medal is named after Walter Hermann Bucher (1888–1965), president of the AGU from 1948 to 1953. Bucher's main fields of investigation were the Earth's tectonic processes and the resulting manifestations in the Earth's crust.
Medallists Source: 1968 – John Tuzo Wilson 1969 – James Gilluly 1970 – David T. Griggs 1971 – Robert S. Dietz 1972 – W. Jason Morgan 1974 – Maurice Ewing 1975 – Lynn Sykes 1977 – Bruce C. Heezen 1979 – Edward Irving 1981 – Jack E. Oliver 1983 – John W. Handin 1985 – John G. Sclater 1987 – William Francis Brace 1989 – Arthur H. Lachenbruch 1991 – Seiya Uyeda 1993 – Aleksey N. Khramov 1995 – Patrick Hurley 1996 – Hiroo Kanamori 1998 – Norman H. Sleep 2000 – James H. Dieterich 2002 – Stuart Ross Taylor 2004 – Mervyn S. Paterson 2006 – E. Bruce Watson 2008 – Mark Zoback 2010 – Paul F. Hoffman 2012 – James Rice 2014 – Bryan Isacks 2016 – Samuel Bowring 2018 – Philip England 2019 – Leigh Royden 2020 – Susan L. Beck 2021 – Mark Harrison 2022 – Seth Stein 2023 – Chris Hawkesworth 2024 – Frank S. Spear 2025 - Richard G. Gordon
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