Bruce Medal
The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. It is named after Catherine Wolfe Bruce, an American patroness of astronomy, and was first awarded in 1898.[1]
List of Bruce Medalists
Source: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- 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 Paczyński
- 2003 – Vera C. Rubin
- 2004 – Chūshirō Hayashi
- 2005 – Robert Kraft
- 2006 – Frank J. Low
- 2007 – Martin Harwit
- 2008 – Sidney van den Bergh
- 2009 – Frank H. Shu
- 2010 – Gerry Neugebauer
- 2011 – Jeremiah P. Ostriker
- 2012 – Sandra M. Faber
- 2013 – James E. Gunn
- 2014 – Kenneth Kellermann
- 2015 – Douglas N. C. Lin
- 2016 – Andrew Fabian
- 2017 – Nick Scoville
See also
References
- ↑ "Annual Awards". Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Retrieved 17 December 2014.
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