Prizes Awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society
Compiled by the departmental Awards Committee
Prof. M. F. A'Hearn and Prof. V. Trimble
This list is a list of prizes awarded by the RAS for which UM astronnomers
are likely to be eligible. Some American astronomers who have won the
prize are listed also. Further details are available at the
RAS web pages,
including Nomination
Forms.
APS Awards
- Gold Medal. Highest honor, normally late career. GJ Wasserberg,
EN Parker, P Goldreich, JE Gunn, V Rubin, DE Osterbrock, PJE Peebles,
B Paczynki
Schramm, Thorne, Turner, Hawking
- Eddington Medal. triennial. Focussed on some one specific achievement.
WA Fowler, PJE Peebles, B Paczynski, I Iben, A Guth, R Blandford
- Herschel Medal. triennial. instrumentation-ish. Al Boggess, G Neugebauer
- Hannah Jackson (nee Gwilt) Gift and Medal. triennial. service component.
Janet Mattei
- George Darwin Lecture. Mid career, but tends to overlap territory of
Gold Medal. SM Faber, R Giacconi, S Tremaine, B Paczynski.
- The Michael Penston Astronomy Prize. Young persons, fairly new, no
Americans yet)
Created: 00/07/01, mfa