HENRY NORRIS RUSSELL LECTURESHIP

The 'Henry Norris Russell Lectureship' is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research.
Past Russell Lecturers are:

★ 1946, Henry Norris Russell

★ 1947, Walter Sydney Adams

★ 1948, ''No award''

★ 1949, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

★ 1950, Harlow Shapley

★ 1951, Jan Oort

★ 1952, ''No award''

★ 1953, Enrico Fermi

★ 1953, Lyman Spitzer

★ 1954, ''No award''

★ 1955, Paul Merrill

★ 1956, Joel Stebbins

★ 1957, Otto Struve

★ 1958, Walter Baade

★ 1959, Gerard P. Kuiper

★ 1960, Martin Schwarzschild

★ 1961, William Wilson Morgan

★ 1962, Grote Reber

★ 1963, William Alfred Fowler

★ 1964, Ira S. Bowen

★ 1965, Bengt Strömgren

★ 1966, Richard Tousey

★ 1967, Otto Neugebauer

★ 1968, John G. Bolton

★ 1969, Eugene Parker

★ 1970, Jesse L. Greenstein

★ 1971, Fred Hoyle

★ 1972, Allan Sandage

★ 1973, Leo Goldberg

★ 1974, Edwin Salpeter

★ 1975, George Herbig

★ 1976, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

★ 1977, Olin C. Wilson

★ 1978, Maarten Schmidt

★ 1979, Peter Goldreich

★ 1980, Jeremiah P. Ostriker

★ 1981, Riccardo Giacconi

★ 1982, Bart Bok

★ 1983, Herbert Friedman

★ 1984, E. Margaret Burbidge

★ 1985, Olin J. Eggen

★ 1986, Albert Whitford

★ 1987, Fred L. Whipple

★ 1988, Gerard de Vaucouleurs

★ 1989, Icko Iben, Jr.

★ 1990, Sidney van den Bergh

★ 1991, Donald Osterbrock

★ 1992, Lawrence Aller

★ 1993, James Peebles

★ 1994, Vera Rubin

★ 1995, Robert Kraft

★ 1996, Gerry Neugebauer

★ 1997, Alastair Cameron

★ 1998, Charles Townes

★ 1999, John Bahcall

★ 2000, Donald Lynden-Bell

★ 2001, Wallace Sargent

★ 2002, George Wallerstein

★ 2003, George Wetherill

★ 2004, Martin Rees

★ 2005, James E. Gunn

★ 2006, Bohdan Paczynski

★ 2007, David L. Lambert