James Craig Watson Medal
The James Craig Watson Medal is an award from the US National Academy of Sciences for achievements in the field of astronomy. It was established by the legacy of astronomer James Craig Watson . The award is endowed with 25,000 US dollars (as of 2018), with a further 50,000 dollars supporting the research of the award winner.
Award winners
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- 1887 Benjamin Apthorp Gould
- 1889 Ed Schoenfeld
- 1891 Arthur von Auwers
- 1894 Seth Carlo Chandler
- 1899 David Gill
- 1913 Jacobus C. Kapteyn
- 1916 Armin Otto Leuschner
- 1924 Carl Charlier
- 1929 Willem de Sitter
- 1936 Ernest William Brown
- 1948 Samuel Alfred Mitchell
- 1951 Herbert R. Morgan
- 1955 Chester Burleigh Watts
- 1957 George Van Biesbroeck
- 1960 Yusuke Hagihara
- 1961 Otto Heckmann
- 1964 Willem Jacob Luyten
- 1965 Paul Herget
- 1966 Wallace John Eckert
- 1969 Jürgen Moser
- 1972 André Deprit
- 1975 Gerald Maurice Clemence
- 1979 Charles Thomas Kowal
- 1982 Stanton J. Peale
- 1985 Kent Ford
- 1986 Robert B. Leighton
- 1991 Maarten Schmidt
- 1994 Yasuo Tanaka
- 1998 Carolyn Shoemaker and Eugene Shoemaker
- 2001 David Todd Wilkinson
- 2004 Vera Rubin
- 2007 Michael F. Skrutskie and Roc M. Cutri
- 2010 Margaret Geller
- 2012 Jeremiah P. Ostriker
- 2014 Robert Kirshner
- 2016 Timothy M. Brown
- 2018 Ewine F. van Dishoeck
- 2020 Lisa Kewley
Web links
- James Craig Watson Medal at the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org)