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The Keith Runcorn Prize is awarded annually by the Royal Astronomical Society for the best British doctoral thesis in geophysics (including planetary science). The winner receives a cash prize and presents the results of their thesis at a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The prize is sponsored by Oxford University Press, and since 2007 named after Keith Runcorn, a British physicist whose paleomagnetic reconstruction of the relative motions of Europe and America revived the theory of continental drift.

Recipients

See also

• List of geophysics awards
• List of prizes named after people

References

1. "Awards, Medals and Prizes - Keith Runcorn Prize". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
2. "The Royal Astronomical Society".
3. "Thesis Prize Winners" (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2023-10-21.

• Geophysics awards
• British awards
• Awards established in 1992