Honours
Professor Vine has received a number of honours including :
- Day Medal in 1968,
- Bigsby Medal of the Geological Society of London in 1971,
- Chapman Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1973),
- Fellowship of the Royal Society in March 1974,
- The Chree Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (1977),
- Hughes Medal of the Royal Society (1982),
- International Balzan Prize (1981).
- Prestwich Medal of the Geological Society of London in 2007.
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