Abstract
The award of the Bowie Medal to Charles Whitten is long overdue. Knowing the high, even reverential, regard in which he is held by the geophysical community, I am confident that disagreement with this assertion would come only from Whitten himself. Especially to geodesists was it inevitable that a medal named after William Bowie should go to Charles Whitten—a traditional inheritance, so to speak. He is the natural, and worthy, successor to Bowie and Walter Lambert, the 1949 Bowie Medalist. The reputation of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (since 1971, the National Ocean Survey) as the leader in geodetic research and operations in the United States has been based to a large extent on the work and influence, in turn, of these three men.
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