EDDINGTON MEDAL

The 'Eddington Medal', named after Sir Arthur Eddington, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.

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Recipients

★ 1953 Georges Lemaître

★ 1955 [1] Hendrik C. van de Hulst

★ 1958 [2] Horace W. Babcock

★ 1959 [3] James Stanley Hey

★ 1960 [4] Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

★ 1961 [5] Hans Albrecht Bethe

★ 1962 [6] André Lallemand

★ 1963 [7] J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild

★ 1964 [8] Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey

★ 1965 [9] Robert Vivian Pound, Glen A. Rebka

★ 1966 [10] Rupert Wildt

★ 1967 [11] Robert F. Christy

★ 1968 [12] Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss

★ 1969 [13] Antony Hewish

★ 1970 [14] Chushiro Hayashi

★ 1971 [15] Desmond George King-Hele

★ 1972 [16] Paul Ledoux

★ 1975 [17] Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose

★ 1978 [18] William A. Fowler

★ 1981 [19] Philip James Edwin Peebles

★ 1984 [20] Donald Lynden-Bell

★ 1987 [21] Bohdan Paczynski

★ 1990 [22] Icko Iben

★ 1993 [23] Leon Mestel

★ 1996 Alan Guth

★ 1999 Roger Blandford

★ 2002 Douglas O. Gough

★ 2005 Rudolph Kippenhahn

★ 2007 Igor D. Novikov

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★ Winners