Eddington Medal
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The Eddington Medal, named after Sir Arthur Eddington
, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science...
, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...
nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.
Recipients
- 1953 http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1953MNRAS.113....2L Georges LemaîtreGeorges LemaîtreMonsignor Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître was a Belgian priest, astronomer and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain. He was the first person to propose the theory of the expansion of the Universe, widely misattributed to Edwin Hubble...
- 1955 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0115//0000202.000.html Hendrik C. van de HulstHendrik C. van de HulstHendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst FRS was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician....
- 1958 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0118//0000404.000.html Horace W. BabcockHorace W. BabcockHorace Welcome Babcock was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock.He invented and built a number of astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose the idea of adaptive optics. He specialized in spectroscopy and the study of magnetic fields of stars...
- 1959 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0119//0000447.000.html James Stanley HeyJames Stanley HeyJames Stanley Hey FRS was an English physicist and radio astronomer. With the targeted application of radar technology for astronomical research, he lay the basis for the development of radio astronomy...
- 1960 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0001//0000026.000.html Robert d'Escourt AtkinsonRobert d'Escourt AtkinsonRobert d'Escourt Atkinson was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.-Biography:...
- 1961 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0002//0000107.000.html Hans Albrecht BetheHans BetheHans Albrecht Bethe was a German-American nuclear physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his work on the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. A versatile theoretical physicist, Bethe also made important contributions to quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, solid-state physics and...
- 1962 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0003//0000084.000.html André LallemandAndré LallemandAndré Lallemand was a French astronomer and director of the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris.Lallemand made important contributions to the development of photomultipliers for astronomical use and the "electronic telescope" . He was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in...
- 1963 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0004//0000180.000.html J. A. R. SandageAllan SandageAllan Rex Sandage was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California. He is best known for determining the first reasonably accurate value for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.-Career:Sandage was one of the most...
, Martin SchwarzschildMartin SchwarzschildMartin Schwarzschild was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.-Biography:... - 1964 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0005//0000108.000.html Herbert FriedmanHerbert FriedmanHerbert Friedman was an American pioneer in the application of sounding rockets to solar physics, aeronomy, and astronomy. He was also a statesman and public advocate for science...
, Richard TouseyRichard TouseyRichard Tousey was an American astronomer. He was a pioneer in the observation of the sun from space.In 1960 he was awarded the by the OSA.... - 1965 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0006//0000123.000.html Robert PoundRobert PoundRobert Vivian Pound was an American physicist who helped discover nuclear magnetic resonance and who devised the famous Pound-Rebka experiment supporting general relativity .Pound was born in Ridgeway, Ontario....
, Glen A. RebkaGlen RebkaGlen Anderson Rebka, Jr. is an American physicist.Rebka attained a doctorate 1961 at Harvard, where he began study in 1953. Starting from 1961 he was at Yale University and starting from 1970 at the University of Wyoming, where he was from 1983 to 1991 department head of the physics faculty and... - 1966 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0007//0000120.000.html Rupert WildtRupert WildtRupert Wildt was a German-American astronomer.He was born in Munich, Germany, and grew up in that country during World War I and its aftermath. In 1927 he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin...
- 1967 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0008//0000129.000.html Robert F. ChristyRobert ChristyRobert F. Christy is an American theoretical physicist and later astrophysicist who worked on the Manhattan Project. He was also briefly president of Caltech....
- 1968 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0009//0000277.000.html Robert Hanbury BrownRobert Hanbury BrownRobert Hanbury Brown, AC FRS was a British astronomer and physicist born in Aruvankadu, India. He made notable contributions to the development of radar and he later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy...
, Richard Q. TwissRichard Q. TwissRichard Q. Twiss is famous for his work on the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect with Robert Hanbury Brown. This led to the development of the Hanbury Brown-Twiss intensity interferometer in the UK in 1954. Their work was controversial as it appeared to contradict the established beliefs about... - 1969 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0010//0000095.000.html Antony HewishAntony HewishAntony Hewish FRS is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 for his work on the development of radio aperture synthesis and its role in the discovery of pulsars...
- 1970 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0011//0000088.000.html Chūshirō HayashiChushiro Hayashiwas a Japanese astrophysicist. Hayashi tracks on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram are named after him.He earned his B.Sc in physics at the Imperial University of Tokyo in 1942. He then worked as a research associate under Hideki Yukawa at Kyoto University...
- 1971 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0012//0000138.000.html Desmond George King-HeleDesmond King-HeleDesmond George King-Hele is a British physicist and author. In 1957, together with Doreen Gilmour, and as part of the Guided Weapons department of Royal Aircraft Establishment, he wrote a report proposing the use of the Blue Streak missile and Black Knight as a satellite launcher...
- 1972 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0013//0000485.000.html Paul LedouxPaul LedouxPaul Ledoux was a Belgian astronomer. In 1964 Paul Ledoux was awarded the Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences. He was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1972 for investigations into problems of stellar stability and variable stars...
- 1975 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0016//0000359.000.html Stephen HawkingStephen HawkingStephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity...
, Roger PenroseRoger PenroseSir Roger Penrose OM FRS is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College... - 1978 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0020//0000003.000.html William A. Fowler
- 1981 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0022//0000350.000.html Philip James Edwin Peebles
- 1984 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0025//0000231.000.html Donald Lynden-BellDonald Lynden-BellDonald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS is an English astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. He was a co-recipient, with Maarten Schmidt, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for...
- 1987 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0029//0000097.000.html Bohdan PaczyńskiBohdan PaczynskiBohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....
- 1990 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0032//0000353.000.html Icko IbenIcko IbenIcko Iben, Jr. is an American astronomer and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Iben received his PhD from the University of Illinois in 1958...
- 1993 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0034//0000275.000.html Leon MestelLeon MestelLeon Mestel is a British astronomer and astrophysicist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Sussex. His research interests are in the areas of star formation and structure, especially stellar magnetism and astrophysical magnetohydrodynamics. He has won both the Eddington Medal and the Gold...
- 1996 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-0032(01)00046-1 Alan GuthAlan GuthAlan Harvey Guth is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Guth has researched elementary particle theory...
- 1999 Roger BlandfordRoger BlandfordRoger David Blandford FRS is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
- 2002 Douglas O. Gough
- 2005 http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/products/journals/aag/AAG_April05/aag_46239.htm Rudolph Kippenhahn
- 2007 http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/products/journals/aag/AAG_February07/aag_48141.htm#seq3 Igor D. Novikov
- 2009 http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1545&Itemid=2 Jim Pringle
- 2011 Gilles Chabrier