Bruce Medal
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The Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy.
See also: Bruce Medalists
Past laureates are:
- 1898, Simon Newcomb
- 1899, Arthur Auwers
- 1900, David Gill
- 1902, Giovanni V. Schiaparelli
- 1904, William Huggins
- 1906, Hermann Carl Vogel
- 1908, Edward C. Pickering
- 1909, George William Hill
- 1911, Henri Poincaré
- 1913, Jacobus C. Kapteyn
- 1914, Oskar Backlund
- 1915, William Wallace Campbell
- 1916, George Ellery Hale
- 1917, Edward Emerson Barnard
- 1920, Ernest W. Brown
- 1921, Henri A. Deslandres
- 1922, Frank W. Dyson
- 1923, Benjamin Baillaud
- 1924, Arthur Stanley 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 V.L. Charlier
- 1934, Alfred Fowler
- 1935, Vesto M. Slipher
- 1936, Armin O. Leuschner
- 1937, Ejnar Hertzsprung
- 1938, Edwin P. Hubble
- 1939, Harlow Shapley
- 1940, Frederick H. Seares
- 1941, Joel Stebbins
- 1942, Jan H. Oort
- 1945, E. Arthur Milne
- 1946, Paul 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 Wilson 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 Greenstein
- 1972, Iosif S. Shklovskii
- 1973, Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
- 1974, Martin Ryle
- 1975, Allan R. Sandage
- 1976, Ernst J. Öpik
- 1977, Bart J. 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 G. Cowling
- 1986, Fred L. Whipple
- 1987, Edwin E. Salpeter
- 1988, John G. Bolton
- 1989, Adriaan Blaauw
- 1990, Charlotte E. Moore Sitterly
- 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 R. Burbidge
- 2000, Rashid A. Sunyaev
- 2001, Hans A. Bethe
- 2002, Bohdan Paczynski
- 2003, Vera C. Rubin
- 2004, Chushiro Hayashi
- 2005, Robert Kraft
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See also
es:Medalla Bruce fr:Médaille Bruce it:Medaglia Bruce nl:Bruce Medal ja:ブルース・メダル pl:Bruce Medal