James Craig Watson Medal

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James Craig Watson Medal

HONOR

Named for astronomer James Craig Watson, and awarded irregularly since 1887 for contributions to astronomy.

1887 Benjamin Apthorp Gould

1889 Ed Schoenfeld

1891 G. F. J. A. Auwers

1894 Seth Carlo Chandler

1899 David Gill

1913 Jacobus C. Kapteyn

1916 Armin O. Leuschner

1924 Carl Charlier

1929 Willem de Sitter

1936 Ernest W. Brown

1948 Samuel A. Mitchell

1951 Herbert R. Morgan

1955 Chester B. Watts

1957 George Van Biesbroeck

1960 Yusuke Hagihara

1961 Otto Heckmann

1964 Willem J. Luyten

1965 Paul Herget

1966 Wallace J. Eckert

1969 Jurgen Moser

1972 André Deprit

1975 Gerald Maurice Clemence

1979 Charles T. Kowal

1982 Stanton J. Peale

1985 W. Kent Ford, Jr

1986 Robert B. Leighton

1991 Maarten Schmidt

1994 Yasuo Tanaka

1998 Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene M. Shoemaker

2001 David Todd Wilkinson

2004 Vera Rubin

2007 Michael Skrutskie and Roc Cutri

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