Lalande Prize

Jérôme Lalande

The Lalande Prize (French: Prix Lalande) was an award for scientific advances in astronomy, given from 1802 until 1970 by the French Academy of Sciences.

The prize was endowed by astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1801, a few years before his death in 1807, to enable the Academy of Sciences to make an annual award "to the person who makes the most unusual observation or writes the most useful paper to further the progress of Astronomy, in France or elsewhere."

It was combined with the Valz Prize (Prix Valz) in 1970 to create the Lalande-Valz Prize and then with a further 122 foundation prizes in 1997, resulting in the establishment of the Grande Médaille. The Grande Medaille is not limited to the field of astronomy.

Winners

A partial list of Lalande Prize laureates includes:

References

  1. "LES LAURÉATS DU PRIX LALANDE". La Revue scientifique. Paris. TOME 40: 460–463. 1887.
  2. 1 2 3 Olbers won in An XI (overlapping 1802–1803), Piazzi won in An XII (overlapping 1803–1804), and Harding won in An XIII (overlapping 1804–1805), according to the French Republican Calendar.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 Liste des attributions du Prix Lalande depuis 1881 jusqu'à 1915
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  10. "Meeting Notes". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 43: 159–164. 1937. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1937-06495-0.
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