Hubbard Medal

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The Hubbard Medal is awarded by the National Geographic Society for distinction in exploration, discovery, and research. The medal is named for Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first National Geographic Society president.

[edit] Recipients

Year	Name	Profession	Reason
1906	Robert Peary	polar explorer
1907	Roald Amundsen	polar explorer
1909	Capt. Robert Bartlett	polar explorer
1910	Sir Ernest Shackleton	polar explorer
1926	Richard E. Byrd	polar explorer and aviator
1927	Charles Lindbergh	aviator
1931	Roy Chapman Andrews	Gobi Explorer
1934	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	aviator
1954	British Mount Everest Expedition	mountaineers	(group award) [1]
1958	Paul Allen Siple	polar explorer
1962	John Glenn	astronaut
1962	Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey	anthropologist
1963	Norman Dyhrenfurth and his team	mountaineers	First Americans to climb to the summit of Mount Everest [2]
1970	Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin Michael Collins	astronauts
1981	John Young Robert Crippen	astronauts	[3]
	Frank Borman	astronaut	[4]
1994	Richard Leakey	anthropologist
1995	Jane Goodall	environmentalist	[5]
1996	Robert Ballard	underwater explorer	[6]
1999	Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones	balloonists
2000	Matthew Henson	polar explorer	Companion to first recipient Robert Peary. Was not awarded because of his race at the time. Awarded posthumously. [7]