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", 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 1928 – Henry Augustus Pilsbry 1931 – William Morton Wheeler 1934 – Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. 1937 – Edwin Linton 1940 – Merritt Lyndon Fernald 1943 – Chancey Juday 1946 – Ernst Mayr 1949 – Warren Poppino Spencer 1952 – G. Evelyn Hutchinson 1955 – Herbert Friedmann 1958 – Herbert Barker Hungerford 1961 – Robert Evans Snodgrass 1964 – Carl Leavitt Hubbs 1967 – Donn Eric Rosen 1970 – Arthur Cronquist 1975 – James Bond 1979 – Edward Osborne Wilson 1983 – G. Ledyard Stebbins 1985 – Hampton Carson 1989 – Daniel H. Janzen 1994 – Peter and Rosemary Grant 2006 – David B. Wake 2009 – Dan Otte 2010 – Tim Flannery 2012 – Douglas Futuyma
See also List of general science and technology awards List of biology awards List of earth sciences awards List of paleontology awards
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