Past Recipients of the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal

2012: Sandra Faber, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), CA

2011: Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Princeton University, USA

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