Eddington Medal

Royal Astronomical Society award for research in theoretical astrophysics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over the years, at times being every one, two or three years. Since 2013 it has been awarded annually.

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1953Georges Lemaître[1]
1955Hendrik C. van de Hulst[2]
1958Horace W. Babcock[3]
1959James Stanley Hey[4]
1960Robert d'Escourt Atkinson[5]
1961Hans Albrecht Bethe[6]
1962André Lallemand[7]
1963J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild[8]
1964Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey[9]
1965Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka[10]
1966Rupert Wildt[11]
1967Robert F. Christy[12]
1968Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss[13]
1969Antony Hewish[14]
1970Chūshirō Hayashi[15]
1971Desmond George King-Hele[16]
1972Paul Ledoux[17]
1975Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose[18]
1978William A. Fowler[19]
1981Philip James Edwin Peebles[20]
1984Donald Lynden-Bell[21]
1987Bohdan Paczyński[22]
1990Icko Iben[23]
1993Leon Mestel[24]
1996Alan Guth[25]
1999Roger Blandford[25]
2002Douglas O. Gough[26]
2005Rudolph Kippenhahn[27]
2007Igor D. Novikov[28]
2009Jim Pringle[29]
2011Gilles Chabrier[30]
2013James Binney[31]
2014Andrew King[32]
2015Rashid Sunyaev[33]
2016Anthony Bell[34]
2017Cathie Clarke[35]
2018Claudia Maraston[36]
2019Bernard F. Schutz[37]
2020Steven Balbus[38]
2021Hiranya Peiris[39]
2022Alan Heavens[40]
2023Monika Mościbrodzka[41]
2024Pedro Ferreira[42]
2025Douglas C. Heggie[43]
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