{{Primary sources|date=October 2020}} The '''Keith Runcorn Prize''' is awarded annually by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best British doctoral thesis in geophysics (including planetary science). The winner receives a cash prize and presents the results of their thesis at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2277-keith-runcorn-thesis-prize|title= Awards, Medals and Prizes - Keith Runcorn Prize| publisher= Royal Astronomical Society|accessdate = 12 August 2015}}</ref>
The prize is sponsored by Oxford University Press, and since 2007<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/1380-keith-runcorn-honoured|title=The Royal Astronomical Society}}</ref> named after Keith Runcorn, a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift.
==Recipients== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/thesis_prize_winners.pdf |title=Thesis Prize Winners|publisher=Royal Astronomical Society|access-date=2023-10-21}}</ref> !! Name !! Affiliation |- | 1992 || Douglas Stewart || University of Leeds |- | 1993 || Sara Russell || Open University |- | 1994 || Tim Henstock || University of Cambridge |- | 1995 || Graeme Sarson || University of Leeds |- | 1996 || Tim Horbury || Imperial College London |- | 1997 || Cathryn Mitchell || University of Wales at Aberystwyth |- | 1998 || Mark Muller || rowspan="2" | University of Cambridge |- | 1999 || Marcus Brüggen |- | 2000 || Dave Skeet || University of Oxford |- | 2001 || {{center|-}} || {{center|-}} |- | 2002 || Emma Bunce || University of Leicester |- | 2003 || Clare Watt || British Antarctic Survey |- | 2004 || Paul Williams || University of Oxford |- | 2005 || Phillip Livermore || University of Leeds |- | 2006 || Sophie Bassett || University of Durham |- | 2007 || Leigh Fletcher || University of Oxford |- | 2008 || David Jess || Queen's University Belfast |- | 2009 || David Halliday || University of Edinburgh |- | 2010 || James Verdon || University of Bristol |- | 2011 || David Kipping || University College London |- | 2012 || Sudipta Sarkar || University of Southampton |- | 2013 || Richard Walters || University of Leeds |- | 2014 || Hannah Christensen (née Arnold) || University of Oxford |- | 2015 || Matteo Ravasi || University of Edinburgh |- | 2016 || Rishy Mistry || Imperial College |}
==See also== * List of geophysics awards * List of prizes named after people
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Royal Astronomical Society}}
Category:Geophysics awards Category:British science and technology awards Category:Awards established in 1992 Category:British academic awards