Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research.

Previous lecturers

This list of lecturers is from the American Astronomical Society's website.

• 1946 Henry Norris Russell
• 1947 Walter Sydney Adams
• 1948 No award
• 1949 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1950 Harlow Shapley
• 1951 Jan Oort
• 1952 No award
• 1953 Enrico Fermi
• 1953 Lyman Spitzer
• 1954 No award
• 1955 Paul Merrill
• 1956 Joel Stebbins
• 1957 Otto Struve
• 1958 Walter Baade
• 1959 Gerard P. Kuiper
• 1960 Martin Schwarzschild
• 1961 William Wilson Morgan
• 1962 Grote Reber
• 1963 William Alfred Fowler
• 1964 Ira S. Bowen
• 1965 Bengt Strömgren
• 1966 Richard Tousey
• 1967 Otto Neugebauer
• 1968 John G. Bolton
• 1969 Eugene Parker
• 1970 Jesse L. Greenstein
• 1971 Fred Hoyle
• 1972 Allan Sandage
• 1973 Leo Goldberg
• 1974 Edwin Salpeter
• 1975 George Herbig
• 1976 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• 1977 Olin C. Wilson
• 1978 Maarten Schmidt
• 1979 Peter Goldreich
• 1980 Jeremiah P. Ostriker
• 1981 Riccardo Giacconi
• 1982 Bart Bok
• 1983 Herbert Friedman
• 1984 E. Margaret Burbidge
• 1985 Olin J. Eggen
• 1986 Albert Whitford
• 1987 Fred L. Whipple
• 1988 Gerard de Vaucouleurs
• 1989 Icko Iben, Jr.
• 1990 Sidney van den Bergh
• 1991 Donald Osterbrock
• 1992 Lawrence Aller
• 1993 James Peebles
• 1994 Vera Rubin
• 1995 Robert Kraft
• 1996 Gerry Neugebauer
• 1997 Alastair Cameron
• 1998 Charles Townes
• 1999 John Bahcall
• 2000 Donald Lynden-Bell
• 2001 Wallace Sargent
• 2002 George Wallerstein
• 2003 George Wetherill
• 2004 Martin Rees
• 2005 James E. Gunn
• 2006 Bohdan Paczyński
• 2007 David L. Lambert
• 2008 Rashid Sunyaev
• 2009 George W. Preston
• 2010 Margaret J. Geller
• 2011 Sandra M. Faber
• 2012 W. David Arnett