Herschel Medal
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Mike Irwin receiving the Herschel Medal in 2012
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Awarded for | "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics"[1] |
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Reward | Medal |
First awarded | 1974[2] |
Last awarded | 2015[3] |
Currently held by | James Dunlop[4] |
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The Herschel Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics". It is awarded for a single piece of work so that younger scientists can be candidates for the award.[1] It is named after the RAS's first president, William Herschel.[5] The medal was first awarded in 1974. The medal has been shared twice, in 1977 and 1986. It has been awarded 18 times to a total of 20 people (19 men, one woman).[2][3]
Medalists
Photo | Year | Medalist(s) | Field | References |
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100px | 1974 | John Paul Wild | [2] | |
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1977 | Arno Penzias Robert Woodrow Wilson |
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1980 | Gérard de Vaucouleurs | [2] | |
1983 | William W. Morgan | [2] | ||
1986 | Albert Boggess Robert Wilson |
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1989 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | [2] | |
1992 | Andrew Lyne | [2] | ||
1995 | George Isaak | [2] | ||
1998 | Gerald Neugebauer | [2] | ||
2001 | Patrick Thaddeus | [2] | ||
2004 | Keith Horne | Cataclysmic variable stars and exoplanets | [2][6] | |
100px | 2006 | Govind Swarup | Radio astronomy | [2][7] |
2008 | Max Pettini | Extragalactic cosmology | [2][5] | |
2010 | James Hough | Polarimetry | [2][8] | |
100px | 2012 | Mike Irwin | Digital optical and infrared surveys | [2][9] |
100px | 2013 | Michael Kramer | Pulsars | [2][10] |
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2014 | Reinhard Genzel | Galactic and Extragalactic astronomy | [2][11] |
2015 | Stephen Eales | Submillimetre astronomy | [3][12] | |
2016 | James Dunlop | [4] |
References
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