Vega Medal Winners
People with Vega Medal
People
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld | Finnish/Swedish geologist mineralogist and arctic explorer |
| Albrecht Penck | German geologist and geographer |
| Alfred Gabriel Nathorst | Swedish explorer and geologist |
| Bjørn Helland-Hansen | Norwegian oceanographer |
| Boris Vilkitsky | Russian polar explorer |
| Carl O. Sauer | American geographer |
| Carl Troll | German scientist |
| Cesare Emiliani | Geologist paleontologist |
| Émile-Félix Gautier | French geographer |
| Emin Pasha | African explorer |
| Emmanuel de Martonne | French geographer |
| Ernest Shackleton | Antarctic Explorer |
| Ferdinand von Richthofen | German scientist |
| Filip Hjulström | Swedish geographer |
| Fridtjof Nansen | Norwegian explorer |
| Gerard De Geer | Swedish geologist |
| Hans Pettersson | Actor |
| Harald Sverdrup | |
| Henry Morton Stanley | British/Welsh explorer; also Union United States Army soldier |
| Hubert Lamb | |
| J. Ross Mackay | |
| Jacob Bjerknes | Norwegian-American meteorologist |
| Johan Gunnar Andersson | Swedish archeologist and geologist |
| Johan Peter Koch | Danish arctic explorer |
| John Imbrie | American meteorologist |
| Knud Rasmussen | Danish explorer and anthropologist |
| Lauge Koch | Leader of 24 Danish government expeditions to Greenland |
| Lennart von Post | Swedish scientist |
| Lonnie Thompson | American paleoclimatologist |
| Louis Gustave Binger | |
| Louis Leakey | Paleoanthropologist |
| Louis Palander | Swedish admiral |
| Maurice Ewing | geophysicist and oceanographer |
| Mikhail Somov | Soviet Ocenographer and polar explorer |
| Nikolay Przhevalsky | Russian geographer |
| Paul-Émile Victor | French explorer |
| Richard E. Byrd | United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient |
| Roald Amundsen | Norwegian explorer |
| Robert Falcon Scott | Antarctic Explorer |
| Roy Chapman Andrews | US explorer?adventurer/naturalist |
| Sigurður Þórarinsson | Icelandic volcanologist |
| Sven Hedin | Swedish geographer |
| Thor Heyerdahl | Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer |
| Tor Bergeron | Swedish meteorologist |
| Vagn Walfrid Ekman | Swedish oceanographer |
| Vilhelm Bjerknes | Norwegian physicist |
| Wilhelm Junker | Russian explorer |
| Willi Dansgaard | Danish climatologist |
| William E. Davis | American football coach and politician |
| William Morris Davis (congressman) | American politician |
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