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HONOR

1824
Charles Babbage, Johann Franz Encke  
1826
John Herschel, James South, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve  
1827
Francis Baily  
1828
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, James Dunlop, Caroline Herschel  
1829
William Pearson, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher  
1830
William Richardson, Johann Franz Encke  
1831
Henry Kater, Baron Marie-Charles Damoiseau  
1833
George Biddell Airy  
1835
Manuel J. Johnson  
1836
John Herschel  
1837
Otto A. Rosenberger  
1839
John Wrottesley  
1840
Giovanni Plana  
1841
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel  
1842
Peter Andreas Hansen  
1843
Francis Baily  
1845
William Henry Smyth  
1846
George Biddell Airy  
1849
William Lassell  
1850
Otto Wilhelm Struve  
1851
Annibale de Gasparis  
1852
Christian August Friedrich Peters  
1853
John Russell Hind  
1854
Charles Rümker  
1855
William Rutter Dawes  
1856
Robert Grant  
1857
Heinrich Schwabe  
1858
Robert Main  
1859
Richard Christopher Carrington  
1860
Peter Andreas Hansen  
1861
Hermann Goldschmidt  
1862
Warren de la Rue  
1863
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander  
1865
George Phillips Bond  
1866
John Couch Adams  
1867
William Huggins, William Allen Miller  
1868
Urbain Le Verrier  
1869
Edward James Stone  
1870
Charles Delaunay  
1872
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli  
1874
Simon Newcomb  
1875
Heinrich d'Arrest  
1876
Urbain Le Verrier  
1878
Baron Ercole Dembowski  
1879
Asaph Hall  
1881
Axel Möller  
1882
David Gill  
1883
Benjamin Apthorp Gould  
1884
Andrew Ainslie Common  
1885
William Huggins  
1886
Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Pritchard  
1887
George William Hill  
1888
Arthur Auwers  
1889
Maurice Loewy  
1892
George Darwin  
1893
Hermann Carl Vogel  
1894
S. W. Burnham  
1895
Isaac Roberts  
1896
Seth Carlo Chandler  
1897
Edward Barnard  
1898
William Frederick Denning  
1899
Frank McClean  
1900
Henri Poincaré  
1901
Edward Charles Pickering  
1902
Jacobus C. Kapteyn  
1903
Hermann Struve  
1904
George Ellery Hale  
1905
Lewis Boss  
1906
William W. Campbell  
1907
Ernest W. Brown  
1908
David Gill  
1909
Oskar Backlund  
1910
Friedrich Küstner  
1911
Philip Herbert Cowell  
1912
Arthur Robert Hinks  
1913
Henri Alexandre Deslandres  
1914
Max Wolf  
1915
Alfred Fowler  
1916
John L. E. Dreyer  
1917
Walter S. Adams  
1918
John Evershed  
1919
Guillaume Bigourdan  
1921
Henry Norris Russell  
1922
James H. Jeans  
1923
Albert A. Michelson  
1924
Arthur Eddington  
1925
Frank W. Dyson  
1926
Albert Einstein  
1927
Frank Schlesinger  
1928
Ralph Allen Sampson  
1929
Ejnar Hertzsprung  
1930
John S. Plaskett  
1931
Willem de Sitter  
1932
Robert Grant Aitken  
1933
V. M. Slipher  
1934
Harlow Shapley  
1935
E. Arthur Milne  
1936
Hisashi Kimura  
1937
Harold Jeffreys  
1938
William Hammond Wright  
1939
Bernard Lyot  
1940
Edwin Hubble  
1943
Harold Spencer Jones  
1944
Otto Struve  
1945
Bengt Edlen  
1946
Jan Hendrik Oort  
1947
Marcel Minnaert  
1948
Bertil Lindblad  
1949
Sydney Chapman  
1950
Joel Stebbins  
1951
Anton Pannekoek  
1952
John Jackson  
1953
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  
1954
Walter Baade  
1955
Dirk Brouwer  
1956
Thomas George Cowling  
1957
Albrecht Unsöld  
1958
André Danjon  
1959
Raymond Arthur Lyttleton  
1960
Viktor Ambartsumian  
1961
Herman Zanstra  
1962
Bengt Strömgren  
1963
H. H. Plaskett  
1964
Martin Ryle, Maurice Ewing  
1965
Edward Bullard, G. M. Clemence  
1966
Ira S. Bowen, Harold C. Urey  
1967
Hannes Alfvén, Allan R. Sandage  
1968
Fred Hoyle, Walter Munk  
1969
A. T. Price, Martin Schwarzschild  
1970
Horace W. Babcock  
1971
F. Press, Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley  
1972
H. I. S. Thirlaway, Fritz Zwicky  
1973
F. Birch, Edwin E. Salpeter  
1974
Ludwig Biermann, K. E. Bullen  
1975
Jesse L. Greenstein, Ernst J. Öpik  
1976
William H. McCrea, J. A. Ratcliffe  
1977
David Bates, John G. Bolton  
1978
Lyman Spitzer, Jr., James Van Allen  
1979
L. Knopoff, C. G. Wynne  
1980
C. L. Pekeris, Maarten Schmidt  
1981
J. F. Gilbert, Bernard Lovell  
1982
Riccardo Giacconi, Harrie Massey  
1983
Michael Seaton, Fred Whipple  
1984
S. K. Runcorn, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich  
1985
Thomas Gold, Stephen Hawking  
1986
G. E. Backus, A. Dalgarno  
1987
Takesi Nagata, Martin Rees  
1988
D. L. Anderson, C. de Jager  
1989
Raymond Hide, K. A. Pounds  
1990
J. W. Dungey, B. E. J. Pagel  
1991
Vitaly Ginzburg, G. J. Wasserburg  
1992
D. P. McKenzie, Eugene Parker  
1993
Peter Goldreich, Donald Lynden-Bell  
1994
James E. Gunn, T. R. Kaiser  
1995
J. Houghton, Rashid Sunyaev  
1996
K. Creer, Vera Rubin  
1997
D. Farley, Donald E. Osterbrock  
1998
R. L. Parker, P. James E. Peebles  
1999
K. Budden, Bohdan Paczynski  
2000
L. Lucy, R. Hutchinson  
2001
Hermann Bondi, H. Rishbeth  
2002
Leon Mestel, J. A. Jacobs  
2003
John Bahcall, D. Gubbins  
2004
Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Grenville Turner  
2005
E. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Carole Jordan  
2006
S. White, S. W. H. Cowley  



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