Henry Draper Medal

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Henry Draper Medal

HONOR

Endowed by the widow of Henry Draper, and awarded since 1886 by the National Academy of Sciences for outstanding achievements in astronomical physics.

1886 Samuel P. Langley

1888 Edward Charles Pickering

1890 Henry Augustus Rowland

1893 Hermann K. Vogel

1899 James E. Keeler

1901 William Huggins

1904 George Ellery Hale

1906 William W. Campbell

1910 Charles Greeley Abbot

1913 Henri Alexandre Deslandres

1915 Joel Stebbins

1916 Albert A. Michelson

1918 Walter S. Adams

1919 Charles Fabry

1920 Alfred Fowler

1921 Pieter Zeeman

1922 Henry Norris Russell

1924 Arthur Eddington

1926 Harlow Shapley

1928 William H. Wright

1931 Annie Jump Cannon

1932 V. M. Slipher

1934 John S. Plaskett

1936 Charles E. Mees

1940 Robert W. Wood

1942 Ira S. Bowen

1945 Paul W. Merrill

1947 Hans Bethe

1949 Otto Struve

1951 Bernard Lyot

1955 Hendrik C. van de Hulst

1957 Horace W. Babcock

1960 Martin Schwarzschild

1963 Richard Tousey

1965 Martin Ryle

1971 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

1974 Lyman Spitzer, Jr.

1977 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson

1980 William W. Morgan

1985 Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.

1989 Riccardo Giovanelli and Martha P. Haynes

1993 Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman

1997 Bohdan Paczynski

2001 R. Paul Butler and Geoffrey W. Marcy

2005 Charles L. Bennett

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