The Mary Anning Medal is open to all those who are not professionally employed in palaeontology but who have made an outstanding contribution to the subject.
A full list of previous recipients can be viewed here: Medal and Award Winners.
Who can nominate? Requires nomination by two members of the Association
Deadline: 31st March
Who was Mary Anning?
Mary Anning (1799-1847) was a self-taught, pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector in Lyme Regis in the south of England. She is (now) credited with finding the first ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and pterosaurs. Anning's discoveries contributed to changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth, and provided research material for the foremost palaeontologists of the time. To this day, her finds form important parts of major collections at the Natural History Museum, London and the Sedgwick Museum, University of Cambridge, UK. The medal design is based on the statue of Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, instigated by the Mary Anning Rocks campaign and created by sculptor Denise Dutton.
