Year |
Medalist |
Institution |
2010 |
Gerry Neugebauer |
Caltech and the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory |
2009 |
Frank
Shu |
University of California, San Diego |
2008 |
Sidney
van den Bergh |
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, Canada |
2007 |
Martin
Harwit |
Cornell University |
2006 |
Frank
J. Low |
University of Arizona |
2005 |
Robert
P. Kraft |
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory |
2004 |
Chushiro
Hayashi |
Kyoto
University, Japan |
2003 |
Vera
Rubin |
Carnegie
Institution of Washington |
2002 |
Bohdan
Paczynski |
Princeton
University Observatory |
2001 |
Hans
Bethe |
Cornell
University |
2000 |
Rashid
Sunyaev |
Max
Planck Institute for Astrophysics |
1999 |
Geoffrey
Burbidge |
University
of California, San Diego |
1998 |
Donald
Lynden-Bell |
Cambridge
University |
1997 |
Parker,
Eugene N. |
University
of Chicago |
1996 |
Whitford,
Albert |
Lick
Observatory |
1995 |
Peebles,
James |
Princeton
University |
1994 |
Sargent,
Wallace |
Cal.
Tech |
1993 |
Rees,
Martin |
Cambridge
University |
1992 |
Schmidt,
Maarten |
Cal.
Tech. |
1991 |
Osterbrock,
Donald |
Lick
Obs., UC Santa Cruz |
1990 |
Sitterly,
Charlotte Moore |
Naval
Research Laboratory |
1989 |
Blaauw,
Adriaan |
Groningen
University |
1988 |
Bolton,
John |
Australian
Nat'l Radio Obs. |
1987 |
Salpeter,
E.E. |
Cornell
University |
1986 |
Whipple,
Fred |
Harvard-Smithsonian
CfA |
1985 |
Cowling,
Thomas G. |
University
of Leeds |
1984 |
Wilson,
Olin C. |
Mt.
Wilson & Las Campanas |
1983 |
Zel'dovich,
Yakov B. |
Space
Research Inst., USSR |
1982 |
Burbidge,
E. Margaret |
UC
San Diego |
1981 |
Giacconi,
Riccardo |
Harvard-Smithsonian
CfA |
1980 |
Herbig,
George |
Lick
Obs., UC Santa Cruz |
1979 |
Fowler,
William A. |
Calif.
Inst. Tech. |
1978 |
van
de Hulst, Hendrik C. |
Leiden
Observatory |
1977 |
Bok,
Bart J. |
Steward
Obs., Univ. of Ariz. |
1976 |
Öpik,
Ernst J. |
Armagh
Observatory |
1975 |
Sandage,
Allan R. |
Hale
Observatories |
1974 |
Ryle,
Martin |
Cambridge
University |
1973 |
Spitzer,
Jr., Lyman |
Princeton
University Obs. |
1972 |
Shklovskii,
Iosif S. |
Sternberg
Astron. Inst. |
1971 |
Greenstein,
Jesse |
Hale
Obs., Caltech |
1970 |
Hoyle,
Fred |
Cambridge
University |
1969 |
Babcock,
Horace |
Mt.
Wilson & Palomar Obs. |
1968 |
Luyten,
Willem J. |
University
of Minnesota |
1967 |
Biermann,
Ludwig |
Max
Planck Institute |
1966 |
Brouwer,
Dirk |
Yale
University Observatory |
1965 |
Schwarzschild,
Martin |
Princeton
University Obs. |
1964 |
Heckman,
Otto |
Hamburg
Observatory |
1963 |
Nicholson,
Seth B. |
Mt.
Wilson & Palomar Obs. |
1962 |
Reber,
Grote |
National
Radio Astron. Lab. |
1961 |
Minkowski,
Rudolph |
Mt.
Wilson & Palomar Obs. |
1960 |
Ambartsumian,
Viktor A. |
Biurakan
Observatory |
1959 |
Stromgren,
Bengt |
Institute
for Advanced Study |
1958 |
Morgan,
William Wilson |
Yerkes
Observatory |
1957 |
Bowen,
Ira S. |
Mt.
Wilson & Palomar Obs. |
1956 |
Unsöld,
Albrecht |
University
of Kiel |
1955 |
Baade,
Walter |
Mt.
Wilson & Palomar Obs. |
1954 |
Lindblad,
Bertil |
Stockholm
Observatory |
1953 |
Babcock,
H.D. |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1952 |
Chandrasekhar,
Subramanyan |
Yerkes
Obs., Univ. of Chicago |
1951 |
Minnaert,
M. |
Ultrecht
Observatory |
1950 |
Joy,
Alfred H. |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1949 |
Spencer
Jones, H. |
Greenwich
Observatory |
1948 |
Struve,
Otto |
Yerkes
Observatory |
1947 |
Lyot,
Bernard |
Paris
Observatory |
1946 |
Merrill,
P.W. |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1945 |
Milne,
E.A. |
Oxford
University |
1942 |
Oort,
Jan H. |
Leiden
Observatory |
1941 |
Stebbins,
Joel |
Washburn
Observatory |
1940 |
Seares,
Frederick Hanley |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1939 |
Shapley,
Harlow |
Harvard
College Observatory |
1938 |
Hubble,
Edwin P. |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1937 |
Hertzsprung,
Ejnar |
Leiden
Observatory |
1936 |
Leuschner,
A.O. |
Univ.
of Calif., Berkeley |
1935 |
Slipher,
Vesto M. |
Lowell
Observatory |
1934 |
Fowler,
Alfred |
University
of London |
1933 |
Charlier,
C.V.L. |
Lund
Observatory |
1932 |
Plaskett,
J.S. |
Dominion
Astrophysical Obs. |
1931 |
de
Sitter, W. |
Leiden
Observatory |
1930 |
Wolf,
Max |
Heidelberg
Observatory |
1929 |
Schlesinger,
Frank |
Yale
University Observatory |
1928 |
Adams,
Walter Sydney |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1927 |
Turner,
H.H. |
Oxford
University |
1926 |
Aitken,
Robert Grant |
Lick
Observatory |
1925 |
Russell,
Henry Norris |
Princeton
Univ. Observatory |
1924 |
Eddington,
Arthur Stanley |
Cambridge
Observatory |
1923 |
Baillaud,
Benjamin |
Paris
Observatory |
1922 |
Dyson,
Frank W. |
Greenwich
Observatory |
1921 |
Deslandres,
H.A |
Meudon
Observatory |
1920 |
Brown,
Ernest William |
Yale
University |
1917 |
Barnard,
Edward Emerson |
Yerkes
Observatory |
1916 |
Hale,
George Ellery |
Mt.
Wilson Observatory |
1915 |
Campbell,
William Wallace |
Lick
Observatory |
1914 |
Backlund,
J. Oskar |
Pulkovo
Observatory |
1913 |
Kapteyn,
Jacobus Cornelius |
Groningen
Astronomical Lab. |
1911 |
Poincaré,
J. Henri |
University
of Paris |
1909 |
Hill,
George William |
West
Nyack, New York |
1908 |
Pickering,
Edward Charles |
Harvard
College Observatory |
1906 |
Vogel,
H. Carl |
Potsdam
Observatory |
1904 |
Huggins,
William |
London |
1902 |
Schiaperelli,
Giovanni V. |
Milan
Observatory |
1900 |
Gill,
David |
Cape
Observatory |
1899 |
Auwers,
Arthur |
Berlin |
1898 |
Newcomb,
Simon |
U.S.
Naval Observatory |
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