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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