1971 Hans Egede Medal 1975 Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography's Vega medal 1976 Seligman Crystal from the International Glaciological Society 1995 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Crafoord Prize 1996 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 1996 Notes External links - photo of Dansgaard, Chester C. Langway and Hans Oeschger - Dansgaard's 2005 autobiography "Frozen Annals, Greenland Ice Sheet Research" "Carbon Dioxide Through the Ice Ages' from UCSD (archived 2004) "History of Danish ice core research" from Niels Bohr Institute (archived 2009) 1922 births 2011 deaths Danish climatologists Paleoclimatologists Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences