Awards & Winners

Roderick Murchison

Date of Birth 22-February-1792
Place of Birth Ross and Cromarty
(Scotland, Highland)
Nationality Scotland
Also know as Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet
Profession Geologist
Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st Baronet KCB DCL FRS FRSE FLS PRGS PBA MRIA was a Scottish geologist who first described and investigated the Silurian system.

Awards by Roderick Murchison

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1871


Founder's Gold Medal
(Who for 40 years watched over the Society with more than paternal solicitude, and has at length placed it among the foremost of our scientific Societies)