George Peabody Medal

The George Peabody Medal, named in honor of George Peabody, is the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. The award, established in 1980, honors individuals who have made exceptional contributions to music in America.

Recipients

gollark: There are plenty of things in, say, maths, which could have been thought up ages ago, and seem stupidly obvious now, but weren't. Such as modern place value notation.
gollark: Obvious things now may just not have been then.
gollark: Hindsight bias exists.
gollark: As I said, a REALLY bad one would be allocating the vote randomly. This satisfies almost nobody, which makes it a "good compromise" by your definition, but it does that because it has tons of flaws.
gollark: There are LESS BAD ones.
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