Dr. Brian Berry, one of the pioneers of modern geography who is credited with changing the course of his discipline, has been selected to receive the 2020 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). I am very pleased to receive the award.”Ironically, academic journals declined to publish Berry’s work in the early days, he said. “In graduate school, I wrote a master’s thesis that turned into a set of four research papers,” Berry explained. His early urban and regional research helped spark a scientific revolution that occurred in geography and urban research in the early 1960s, making him one of the world’s most-cited geographers for more than 25 years. “Among the simple mathematical rules that describe the geography of the city is the principle of ‘distance decay,’” Berry said.