The Frink Medal for British Zoologists is awarded by the Zoological Society of London "for significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology." It consists of a bronze plaque (76 by 83 millimetres), depicting a bison and carved by British sculptor Elisabeth Frink. The Frink Medal was instituted in 1973 and first presented in 1974.

Recipients

Source ZSL • 2021 Terry Burke • 2020 Rosemary Grant • 2019 Christl Donnelly • 2018 John Macnamara • 2017 Pat Monaghan • 2016 Sarah Cleaveland • 2015 Peter Holland • 2014 Patrick Bateson • 2013 Michael Edwin Akam • 2012 Georgina Mary Mace • 2011 Paul H. Harvey • 2010 Ziheng Yang • 2009 Charles Godfray • 2008 Christopher Brian Stringer • 2007 Thomas Cavalier-Smith • 2006 Brian Charlesworth • 2005 Geoffrey Alan Parker • 2004 Malcolm Burrows • 2003 Quentin Bone • 2002 Michael Patrick Hassell • 2001 Nicholas Barry Davies • 2000 Richard Alan Fortey • 1999 Linda Partridge • 1998 John Hartley Lawton • 1997 Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock • 1996 John Richard Krebs • 1995 Robert McCredie May • 1994 Michael Francis Land • 1993 Roy Malcolm Anderson • 1992 Brian Keith Follett • 1991 Robert Aubrey Hinde • 1990 William Donald Hamilton • 1989 John Maynard Smith • 1988 Arthur James Cain • 1987 Eric James Denton • 1986 Vera Fretter • 1985 James Desmond Smyth • 1984 Percy Cyril Claude Garnham • 1983 Geoffrey Fryer • 1982 James Munro Dodd • 1981 James Eric Smith • 1980 William Homan Thorpe • 1979 Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards • 1978 Vincent Wigglesworth • 1977 Sidnie Milana Manton • 1976 Ernest James William Barrington • 1975 Alastair Graham • 1974 John Zachary Young • 1973 Julian Sorell Huxley