- Bruce Medal
The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions toastronomy . It is named afterCatherine Wolfe Bruce , an American patroness of astronomy, and was first awarded in 1898."See also": [http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/ Bruce Medalists]
Past laureates are:
* 1898,
Simon Newcomb
* 1899,Arthur Auwers
* 1900, David Gill
* 1902, Giovanni V. Schiaparelli
* 1904,William Huggins
* 1906,Hermann Carl Vogel
* 1908,Edward C. Pickering
* 1909,George William Hill
* 1911,Henri Poincaré
* 1913, Jacobus C. Kapteyn
* 1914,Oskar Backlund
* 1915,William Wallace Campbell
* 1916,George Ellery Hale
* 1917,Edward Emerson Barnard
* 1920,Ernest W. Brown
* 1921, Henri A. Deslandres
* 1922, Frank W. Dyson
* 1923,Benjamin Baillaud
* 1924, Arthur Stanley Eddington
* 1925,Henry Norris Russell
* 1926, Robert G. Aitken
* 1927,Herbert Hall Turner
* 1928, Walter S. Adams
* 1929,Frank Schlesinger
* 1930,Max Wolf
* 1931,Willem de Sitter
* 1932,John S. Plaskett
* 1933, Carl V.L. Charlier
* 1934,Alfred Fowler
* 1935, Vesto M. Slipher
* 1936, Armin O. Leuschner
* 1937,Ejnar Hertzsprung
* 1938, Edwin P. Hubble
* 1939,Harlow Shapley
* 1940,Frederick H. Seares
* 1941,Joel Stebbins
* 1942, Jan H. Oort
* 1945,E. Arthur Milne
* 1946,Paul Merrill
* 1947,Bernard Lyot
* 1948,Otto Struve
* 1949,Harold Spencer Jones
* 1950,Alfred H. Joy
* 1951,Marcel Minnaert
* 1952,Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
* 1953,Harold D. Babcock
* 1954,Bertil Lindblad
* 1955,Walter Baade
* 1956,Albrecht Unsöld
* 1957,Ira S. Bowen
* 1958,William Wilson Morgan
* 1959,Bengt Strömgren
* 1960,Viktor A. Ambartsumian
* 1961,Rudolph Minkowski
* 1962,Grote Reber
* 1963,Seth Barnes Nicholson
* 1964,Otto Heckmann
* 1965,Martin Schwarzschild
* 1966,Dirk Brouwer
* 1967,Ludwig Biermann
* 1968,Willem J. Luyten
* 1969,Horace W. Babcock
* 1970,Fred Hoyle
* 1971,Jesse Greenstein
* 1972, Iosif S. Shklovskii
* 1973, Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
* 1974,Martin Ryle
* 1975,Allan R. Sandage
* 1976, Ernst J. Öpik
* 1977, Bart J. Bok
* 1978,Hendrik C. van de Hulst
* 1979, William A. Fowler
* 1980,George Herbig
* 1981,Riccardo Giacconi
* 1982, E. Margaret Burbidge
* 1983, Yakov B. Zel'dovich
* 1984,Olin C. Wilson
* 1985, Thomas G. Cowling
* 1986,Fred L. Whipple
* 1987, Edwin E. Salpeter
* 1988,John G. Bolton
* 1989,Adriaan Blaauw
* 1990,Charlotte E. Moore Sitterly
* 1991, Donald E. Osterbrock
* 1992,Maarten Schmidt
* 1993,Martin Rees
* 1994,Wallace Sargent
* 1995, P. James E. Peebles
* 1996,Albert E. Whitford
* 1997,Eugene Parker
* 1998,Donald Lynden-Bell
* 1999, Geoffrey R. Burbidge
* 2000, Rashid A. Sunyaev
* 2001, Hans A. Bethe
* 2002,Bohdan Paczynski
* 2003, Vera C. Rubin
* 2004,Chushiro Hayashi
* 2005, Robert Kraft
* 2006,Frank J. Low
* 2007,Martin Harwit
* 2008,Sidney van den Bergh ee also
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Prizes named after people
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