Hubbard Medal

• Year — Name — Profession — Reason • 1906 — Robert Peary — polar explorer — Farthest north travel by a human. • 1907 — Roald Amundsen — polar explorer — First to transit the Northwest Passage. • 1909 — Robert Bartlett — polar explorer — Reason | Traveled the farthest to the North Pole. • 1910 — Sir Ernest Shackleton — polar explorer — • 1926 — Richard E. Byrd — polar explorer/aviator — First flight over the North Pole. • 1927 — Charles Lindbergh — aviator — First solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean • 1931 — Roy Chapman Andrews — Gobi Desert explorer — • 1934 — Anne Morrow Lindbergh — aviator — For serving as radio operator and copilot to her husband Charles on two flights in 1931 and 1933 • 1935 — Captain Orvil Arson Anderson and Captain Albert William Stevens — aeronauts — Record setting ascent in balloon Explorer II. • 1954 — British Mount Everest Expedition — mountaineers — First ascent of Mount Everest.(group award) • 1958 — Paul Allen Siple — polar explorer — Veteran of several Antarctic expeditions. • 1959 — Adm. Arleigh Burke Rear Adm. George J. Dufek — US Navy — Establishing Antarctic science stations. • 1962 — John Glenn — astronaut — First American to orbit Earth. • 1962 — Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey — anthropologist — • 1963 — Norman Dyhrenfurth and his team — mountaineers — First Americans to climb to the summit of Mount Everest • 1969 — Frank Borman Jim Lovell William Anders — astronauts — First crewed flight to the Moon. • 1970 — Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin Michael Collins — astronauts — For first crewed landing on the Moon. • 1978 — Marie Tharp Bruce C. Heezen — Cartography geologist • 1981 — John Young Robert Crippen — astronauts — Awarded for first Space Shuttle flight. • 1994 — Richard Leakey — anthropologist — • 1995 — Jane Goodall — environmentalist • 1996 — Robert Ballard — underwater explorer — Discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic • 1999 — Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones — balloonists — • 2000 — Matthew Henson — polar explorer — Companion to first recipient Robert Peary. Awarded posthumously. (Not awarded at the time because of his race). • 2010 — Don Walsh — oceanographer — Bathyscaphe Trieste Dive • 2012 — Jacques Piccard — oceanographer — First Mariana Trench expedition • 2013 — Sylvia Earle James Cameron E. O. Wilson — biologist film director/explorer biologist — Marine exploration Marine exploration Biological research • 2015 — George Schaller — biologist — for his unwavering commitment to the well-being of the world's most endangered species • 2016 — Meave Leakey Nainoa Thompson — paleoanthropologist navigator • 2017 — Neil deGrasse Tyson — astrophysicist, author and science communicator • 2018 — Peter H. Raven — Biologist and environmentalist