Leidy Award

The '''Leidy Award''' is a medal and prize presented by the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University (formerly the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was named after US palaeontologist Joseph Leidy. The award was established in 1923 to recognize excellence in "publications, explorations, discoveries or research in the natural sciences",<ref name="PANSP">{{cite journal|date=June 2007|title=The Four Awards Bestowed by The Academy of Natural Sciences and Their Recipients|journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia|publisher=The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |volume=156 |issue=1 |pages=403–404 |doi=10.1635/0097-3157(2007)156[403:TFABBT]2.0.CO;2}}</ref> and was intended to be presented every three years. The award consists of a rectangular bronze medal (decorated with a bust depiction of Leidy) and an honorarium which was initially $5000.

==Laureates== *1925 – Herbert Spencer Jennings<ref name="PANSP"/> *1928 – Henry Augustus Pilsbry<ref name="PANSP"/> *1931 – William Morton Wheeler<ref name="PANSP"/> *1934 – Gerrit Smith Miller Jr.<ref name="PANSP"/> *1937 – Edwin Linton<ref name="PANSP"/> *1940 – Merritt Lyndon Fernald<ref name="PANSP"/> *1943 – Chancey Juday<ref name="PANSP"/> *1946 – Ernst Mayr<ref name="PANSP"/> *1949 – Warren Poppino Spencer<ref name="PANSP"/> *1952 – G. Evelyn Hutchinson<ref name="PANSP"/> *1955 – Herbert Friedmann<ref name="PANSP"/> *1958 – Herbert Barker Hungerford<ref name="PANSP"/> *1961 – Robert Evans Snodgrass<ref name="PANSP"/> *1964 – Carl Leavitt Hubbs<ref name="PANSP"/> *1967 – Donn Eric Rosen<ref name="PANSP"/> *1970 – Arthur Cronquist<ref name="PANSP"/> *1975 – James Bond<ref name="PANSP"/> *1979 – Edward Osborne Wilson<ref name="PANSP"/> *1983 – G. Ledyard Stebbins<ref name="PANSP"/> *1985 – Hampton Carson<ref name="PANSP"/> *1989 – Daniel H. Janzen<ref name="PANSP"/> *1994 – Peter and Rosemary Grant<ref name="PANSP"/> *2006 – David B. Wake<ref name="PANSP"/> *2009 – Dan Otte<ref>{{cite news |last=Avril |first=Tom |date=December 22, 2009 |title=A big man in the world of insects Entomologist has identified 1,500 species |url=http://articles.philly.com/2009-12-22/news/25270703_1_grasshoppers-crickets-foremost-experts |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150415001139/http://articles.philly.com/2009-12-22/news/25270703_1_grasshoppers-crickets-foremost-experts |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2015 |newspaper=The Philadelphia Inquirer |location=Philadelphia |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> *2010 – Tim Flannery<ref>{{cite news |last=Mitchell |first=Peter |date=November 3, 2010 |title=Flannery wins Joseph Leidy Award |url=http://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/flannery-wins-joseph-leidy-award-20101102-17dl5.html |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |location=Sydney |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref> *2012 – Douglas Futuyma<ref>{{cite web|title=Joseph Leidy Award for Stony Brook Biologist|date=September 13, 2012|url=http://www.ansp.org/about/press-room/releases/2012/leidy-award/|publisher=The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University |access-date=15 April 2015}}</ref>

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