Jackson Gwilt Medal
The Jackson-Gwilt Medal (English: Jackson-Gwilt Medal ) is an astronomy award from the British Royal Astronomical Society .
The prize has been awarded since 1897 for the invention, improvement or further development of astronomical instruments or techniques or for significant achievements in observational astronomy or for achievements in researching the history of astronomy . The award is named after Hannah Jackson, née Gwilt.
Award winners
- 1897 Lewis Swift
- 1902 Thomas David Anderson
- 1905 John Tebbutt
- 1909 Philibert Jacques Melotte
- 1913 Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin
- 1918 TER Phillips
- 1923 A. Stanley Williams and William Sadler Franks
- 1928 William Reid and William Herbert Steavenson
- 1931 Clyde William Tombaugh
- 1935 Walter Frederick Gale
- 1938 Frederick J. Hargreaves and Percy Mayow Ryves
- 1942 Reginald Lawson Waterfield
- 1946 Harold William Newton
- 1949 Algernon Montagu Newbegin
- 1953 John Philip Manning Prentice
- 1956 RP de Kock
- 1960 FM Bateson and AFAL Jones
- 1963 George Eric Deacon Alcock
- 1968 John Guy Porter
- 1971 Alan William James Cousins
- 1974 Geoffrey Perry
- 1977 Patrick Moore
- 1980 Roger Griffin
- 1983 Grote Reber
- 1986 David Malin
- 1989 Richard E. Hills
- 1992 Richard Stephenson
- 1995 Janet Akyüz Mattei
- 1998 Alexander Boksenberg
- 2001 John E. Baldwin
- 2004 Pat Wallace
- 2006 Keith Taylor
- 2008 Stephen Shectman
- 2009 Peter Ade
- 2010 Craig Mackay
- 2011 Matt Griffin
- 2012 Joss Bland-Hawthorn
- 2013 Vikram Dhillon
- 2014 George Fraser
- 2015 Allan Chapman
- 2016 Bruce Swinyard
- 2017 Ian Parry
- 2018 Wayne Holland
- 2019 Anna Scaife
- 2020 Roland Bacon
Web links
- Jackson-Gwilt Medal and Medalists at the Royal Astronomical Society (ras.ac.uk)
- Front of the medal
- Back of the medal
- ↑ Leading astronomers and geophysicists honored in RAS bicentenary year. In: ras.ac.uk. Royal Astronomical Society, January 10, 2020, accessed January 11, 2020 .