HONOR

Established by Catherine Wolfe Bruce in 1898, awarded annually by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific "for lifetime contributions to astronomy."

1898	Simon Newcomb
1899	Arthur Auwers
1900	David Gill
1902	Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
1904	William Huggins
1906	Hermann Carl Vogel
1908	Edward Charles Pickering
1909	George W. Hill
1911	Henri Poincaré
1913	Jacobus C. Kapteyn
1914	Oskar Backlund
1915	William W. Campbell
1916	George Ellery Hale
1917	Edward Emerson Barnard
1920	Ernest W. Brown
1921	Henri Alexandre Deslandres
1922	Frank W. Dyson
1923	Benjamin Baillaud
1924	Arthur Eddington
1925	Henry Norris Russell
1926	Robert G. Aitken
1927	Herbert Hall Turner
1928	Walter S. Adams
1929	Frank Schlesinger
1930	Max Wolf
1931	Willem de Sitter
1932	John S. Plaskett
1933	Carl Charlier
1934	Alfred Fowler
1935	V. M. Slipher
1936	Armin O. Leuschner
1937	Ejnar Hertzsprung
1938	Edwin Hubble
1939	Harlow Shapley
1940	Frederick Hanley Seares
1941	Joel Stebbins
1942	Jan Hendrik Oort
1945	E. Arthur Milne
1946	Paul W. Merrill
1947	Bernard Lyot
1948	Otto Struve
1949	Harold Spencer Jones
1950	Alfred H. Joy
1951	Marcel Minnaert
1952	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1953	Harold D. Babcock
1954	Bertil Lindblad
1955	Walter Baade
1956	Albrecht Unsöld
1957	Ira S. Bowen
1958	William W. Morgan
1959	Bengt Strömgren
1960	Viktor A. Ambartsumian
1961	Rudolph Minkowski
1962	Grote Reber
1963	Seth Barnes Nicholson
1964	Otto Heckmann
1965	Martin Schwarzschild
1966	Dirk Brouwer
1967	Ludwig Biermann
1968	Willem J. Luyten
1969	Horace W. Babcock
1970	Fred Hoyle
1971	Jesse L. Greenstein
1972	Iosif S. Shklovskii
1973	Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
1974	Martin Ryle
1975	Allan R. Sandage
1976	Ernst J. Öpik
1977	Bart Jan Bok
1978	Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1979	William A. Fowler
1980	George Herbig
1981	Riccardo Giacconi
1982	E. Margaret Burbidge
1983	Yakov B. Zel'dovich
1984	Olin C. Wilson
1985	Thomas George Cowling
1986	Fred Whipple
1987	Edwin E. Salpeter
1988	John G. Bolton
1989	Adriaan Blaauw
1990	Charlotte E. Moore
1991	Donald E. Osterbrock
1992	Maarten Schmidt
1993	Martin Rees
1994	Wallace Sargent
1995	P. James E. Peebles
1996	Albert E. Whitford
1997	Eugene Parker
1998	Donald Lynden-Bell
1999	Geoffrey Burbidge
2000	Rashid Sunyaev
2001	Hans Bethe
2002	Bohdan Paczynski
2003	Vera Rubin
2004	Chushiro Hayashi
2005	Robert P. Kraft
2006	Frank J. Low
2007	Martin Harwit

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