Eddington Medal
The Eddington Medal ( English Eddington Medal ) is an award given by the Royal Astronomical Society for outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical astrophysics and named after Arthur Stanley Eddington . It is nominally awarded every two years.
Award winners
- 1953: Georges Lemaître
- 1955: Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
- 1958: Horace Welcome Babcock
- 1959: James Stanley Hey
- 1960: Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
- 1961: Hans Bethe
- 1962: André Lallemand
- 1963: Allan Rex Sandage , Martin Schwarzschild
- 1964: Herbert Friedman , Richard Tousey
- 1965: Robert Pound , Glen Rebka
- 1966: Rupert Wildt
- 1967: Robert F. Christy
- 1968: Robert Hanbury Brown , Richard Twiss
- 1969: Antony Hewish
- 1970: Hayashi Chūshirō
- 1971: Desmond King-Hele
- 1972: Paul Ledoux
- 1975: Stephen Hawking , Roger Penrose
- 1978: William Alfred Fowler
- 1981: James Peebles
- 1984: Donald Lynden-Bell
- 1987: Bohdan Paczyński
- 1990: Icko Iben
- 1993: Leon Mestel
- 1996: Alan Guth
- 1999: Roger Blandford
- 2002: Douglas Gough
- 2005: Rudolf Kippenhahn
- 2007: Igor Novikov
- 2009: James Pringle
- 2011: Gilles Chabrier
- 2013: James Binney
- 2014: Andrew R. King
- 2015: Rashid Sunyaev
- 2016: Anthony Bell
- 2017: Cathie Clarke
- 2018: Claudia Marston
- 2019: Bernard Schutz
- 2020: Steven Balbus
Web links
- Eddington Medal and list of winners (PDF)
- ↑ Leading astronomers and geophysicists honored in RAS bicentenary year. In: ras.ac.uk. Royal Astronomical Society, January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .