Editing Grove Karl Gilbert (section)

==Awards==
He won the [[Wollaston Medal]] from the [[Geological Society of London]] in 1900.<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The Geological Society of London|date=20 February 1900 |page=5 |issue=36070}}</ref> He was elected as a member to the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1902.<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?year=1902;smode=advanced;startDoc=1|access-date=2021-05-19|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Charles P. Daly Medal]] by the [[American Geographical Society]] in 1910.<ref name="amergeog">{{cite web|url=http://www.amergeog.org/honorslist.pdf |title=American Geographical Society Honorary Fellowships |publisher=amergeog.org |access-date=2009-03-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704200812/http://www.amergeog.org/honorslist.pdf |archive-date=2009-07-04 }}</ref>   Gilbert was well-esteemed by all American geologists during his lifetime, and he is the only geologist to ever be elected twice as President of the [[Geological Society of America]] (1892 and 1909).<ref>Eckel, Edwin, 1982, GSA Memoir 155, The Geological Society of America — Life History of a Learned Society, {{ISBN|0-8137-1155-X}}.</ref>  Because of Gilbert's prescient insights into planetary geology, the Geological Society of America created the [[G.K. Gilbert Award]] for planetary geology in 1983.  Gilbert's wide-ranging scientific ideas were so profound that the Geological Society of America published GSA Special Paper 183 on his research (Yochelson, E.L., editor, 1980, The Scientific Ideas of G.K. Gilbert, fourteen separate biographical chapters, 148 pages). Gilbert also served as the president of the [[American Society of Naturalists]] from 1885 to 1886.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Officers of the ASN|date=January 2, 2024|publisher=American Society of Naturalists|url=https://www.amnat.org/about/history/past-ec.html|access-date=May 31, 2025}}</ref>

[[Impact crater|Crater]]s on the [[Gilbert (lunar crater)|moon]] and on [[Gilbert (Martian crater)|Mars]] are named in his honor, as is [[Mount Gilbert (Chugach Mountains)|Mount Gilbert]] in Alaska, a second [[Mount Gilbert (California)|Mount Gilbert]] in California, and [[Gilbert Peak (Utah)|Gilbert Peak]] in the [[Uinta Mountains]] of Utah.