1950 Norman Levi Bowen
1951–2000 1951 Olaf Holtedahl 1952 Herbert Harold Read 1953 Erik Stensiö 1954 Leonard Johnston Wills 1955 Arthur Elijah Trueman 1956 Arthur Holmes 1957 Paul Fourmarier 1958 Pentti Eelis Eskola 1959 Pierre Pruvost 1960 Cecil Edgar Tilley 1961 Roman Kozłowski 1962 Leonard Hawkes 1963 Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1964 Harold Jeffreys 1965 D.M.S. Watson 1966 Francis Parker Shepard 1967 Edward Crisp Bullard 1968 Raymond Cecil Moore 1969 William Maurice Ewing 1970 Philip Henry Kuenen 1971 Ralph Alger Bagnold 1972 Hans Ramberg 1973 Alfred Sherwood Romer 1974 Francis John Pettijohn 1975 Hollis Dow Hedberg 1976 Kingsley Charles Dunham 1977 Reinout Willem van Bemmelen 1978 John Tuzo Wilson 1979 Hatton Schuyler Yoder 1980 Augusto Gansser 1981 Robert Minard Garrels 1982 Peter John Wyllie 1983 Dan Peter McKenzie 1984 Kenneth J. Hsu 1985 Gerald Joseph Wasserburg 1986 John Graham Ramsay 1987 Claude Jean Allègre 1988 Alfred Ringwood 1989 Drummond Matthews 1990 Wallace S.