ASSOCIATION AWARDS
Sidney Powers Memorial Award BACKGROUND
The Sidney Powers Memorial Award is a gold medal given in recognition of distin-guished and outstanding contributions to, or achievements in, petroleum geology. It is AAPG’s most distinguished award, and is made at such times as the Executive Committee may designate, but not more than once in any calendar year. Honorary Membership is automatically bestowed upon recipients of the Award, if they have not already received that honor.
| 2009 | Marlan W. Downey |
| 2008 | Fred F. Meissner |
| 2007 | Arnold H. Bouma |
| 2006 | Robert M. Mitchum, Jr. |
| 2005 | Kenneth W. Glennie |
| 2004 | Lawrence W. Funkhouser |
| 2003 | Peter R. Vail |
| 2002 | James L. Wilson |
| 2001 | Robert M. Sneider |
| 2000 | Gerald M. Friedman |
| 1999 | Norman H. Foster |
| 1998 | Albert W. Bally |
| 1997 | Robert D. Gunn |
| 1996 | Bernold M. Hanson |
| 1995 | John D. Haun |
| 1994 | William L. Fisher |
| 1993 | Robert R. Berg |
| 1992 | Sherman A. Wengerd |
| 1991 | John E. Kilkenny |
| 1990 | John T. Galey |
| 1989 | Hugh Neumann Frenzel |
| 1988 | Rufus J. LeBlanc, Sr. |
| 1987 | James E. Wilson |
| 1986 | Merrill W. Haas |
| 1985 | J. Ben Carsey |
| 1984 | Robert J. Weimer |
| 1983 | Grover E. Murray |
| 1982 | Daniel A. Busch |
| 1981 | Mason L. Hill |
| 1980 | Kenneth K. Landes |
| 1979 | William Hirst Curry, Jr. |
| 1978 | Kenneth H. Crandall |
| 1977 | Michel T. Halbouty |
| 1976 | W. Dow Hamm |
| 1975 | Dean A. McGee |
| 1974 | G. Moses Knebel |
| 1973 | Gordon I. Atwater |
| 1972 | Morgan J. Davis, Sr. |
| 1971 | Frank A. Morgan |
| 1970 | Frank R. CLark |
| 1969 | Ira H. Cram, Sr. |
| 1968 | Maurice Ewing |
| 1967 | Carey Croneis |
| 1966 | William B. Heroy, Sr. |
| 1965 | Victor Elvert Monnett |
| 1964 | Edgar W. Owen |
| 1963 | Hollis D. Hedberg |
| 1962 | Lewis G. Weeks |
| 1961 | Clarence L. Moody |
| 1960 | Henry V. Howe |
| 1959 | Raymond C. Moore |
| 1958 | Paul Weaver |
| 1957 | J. P. D. Hull |
| 1956 | William Embry Wrather |
| 1954 | George Martin Lees |
| 1953 | Frederic H. Lahee |
| 1952 | K. C. Heald |
| 1951 | Max Steineke |
| 1950 | Everette L. DeGolyer |
| 1948 | A. I. Levorsen |
| 1947 | Alexander Deussen |
| 1945 | Wallace E. Pratt |



