Eddington Medal
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The Eddington Medal, named after Sir Arthur Eddington, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.
[edit] Recipients
- 1953 [1] Georges Lemaître
- 1955 [2] Hendrik C. van de Hulst
- 1958 [3] Horace W. Babcock
- 1959 [4] James Stanley Hey
- 1960 [5] Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
- 1961 [6] Hans Albrecht Bethe
- 1962 [7] André Lallemand
- 1963 [8] J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild
- 1964 [9] Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey
- 1965 [10] Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka
- 1966 [11] Rupert Wildt
- 1967 [12] Robert F. Christy
- 1968 [13] Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss
- 1969 [14] Antony Hewish
- 1970 [15] Chūshirō Hayashi
- 1971 [16] Desmond George King-Hele
- 1972 [17] Paul Ledoux
- 1975 [18] Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
- 1978 [19] William A. Fowler
- 1981 [20] Philip James Edwin Peebles
- 1984 [21] Donald Lynden-Bell
- 1987 [22] Bohdan Paczyński
- 1990 [23] Icko Iben
- 1993 [24] Leon Mestel
- 1996 [25] Alan Guth
- 1999 Roger Blandford
- 2002 Douglas O. Gough
- 2005 [26] Rudolph Kippenhahn
- 2007 [27] Igor D. Novikov
- 2009 [28] Jim Pringle
- 2011 Gilles Chabrier
