The Buys Ballot Medal is a prize given out by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. It was instituted in 1888 to honour the achievements of the Dutch meteorologist C.H.D. Buys Ballot. The prize is awarded approximately every ten years to an individual that has made significant contributions to meteorology. The recipients have been: 1893 – Julius von Hann, Austria 1903 – Richard Assmann and Arthur Berson, Germany 1913 – Hugo Hergesell, Germany 1923 – Sir Napier Shaw, United Kingdom 1933 – Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norway 1948 – Sverre Petterssen, Norway 1953 – Gustav Swoboda, Czech Republic 1963 – Erik Palmén, Finland 1973 – Joseph Smagorinsky, United States 1982 – Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, Denmark 1995 – Veerabhadran Ramanathan, United States 2004 – Edward Norton Lorenz, United States 2014 – Sir Brian Hoskins, United Kingdom See also List of meteorology awards References External links Description of the prize KNAW Awards established in 1888 Dutch honorary society awards Meteorology awards Awards of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences 1888 establishments in the Netherlands