Eddington Medal
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The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over the years, at times being every one, two or three years. Since 2013 it has been awarded annually.
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| Website | http://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2263-eddington-medal |
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- 1953 Georges Lemaître[2]
- 1955 Hendrik C. van de Hulst[3]
- 1958 Horace W. Babcock[4]
- 1959 James Stanley Hey[5]
- 1960 Robert d'Escourt Atkinson[6]
- 1961 Hans Albrecht Bethe[7]
- 1962 André Lallemand[8]
- 1963 J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild[9]
- 1964 Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey[10]
- 1965 Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka[11]
- 1966 Rupert Wildt[12]
- 1967 Robert F. Christy[13]
- 1968 Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss[14]
- 1969 Antony Hewish[15]
- 1970 Chūshirō Hayashi[16]
- 1971 Desmond George King-Hele[17]
- 1972 Paul Ledoux[18]
- 1975 Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose[19]
- 1978 William A. Fowler[20]
- 1981 Philip James Edwin Peebles[21]
- 1984 Donald Lynden-Bell[22]
- 1987 Bohdan Paczyński[23]
- 1990 Icko Iben[24]
- 1993 Leon Mestel[25]
- 1996 Alan Guth
- 1999 Roger Blandford
- 2002 Douglas O. Gough[26]
- 2005 Rudolph Kippenhahn[27]
- 2007 Igor D. Novikov[28]
- 2009 Jim Pringle[29]
- 2011 Gilles Chabrier[30]
- 2013 James Binney[31]
- 2014 Andrew King[32]
- 2015 Rashid Sunyaev[33]
- 2016 Anthony Bell[34]
- 2017 Cathie Clarke[35]
- 2018 Claudia Maraston[36]
- 2019 Bernard F. Schutz[37]
- 2020 Steven Balbus[38]
- 2021 Hiranya Peiris[39]
- 2022 Alan Heavens[40]
- 2023 Monika Mościbrodzka[41]
- 2024 Pedro Ferreira[42]
- 2025 Douglas C. Heggie[43]
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