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.

Recipients

• 1953 Georges Lemaître
• 1955 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0115//0000202.000.html Hendrik C. van de Hulst
• 1958 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0118//0000404.000.html Horace W. Babcock
• 1959 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0119//0000447.000.html James Stanley Hey
• 1960 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0001//0000026.000.html Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
• 1961 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0002//0000107.000.html Hans Albrecht Bethe
• 1962 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0003//0000084.000.html André Lallemand
• 1963 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0004//0000180.000.html J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild
• 1964 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0005//0000108.000.html Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey
• 1965 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0006//0000123.000.html Robert Vivian Pound, Glen A. Rebka
• 1966 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0007//0000120.000.html Rupert Wildt
• 1967 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0008//0000129.000.html Robert F. Christy
• 1968 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0009//0000277.000.html Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss
• 1969 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0010//0000095.000.html Antony Hewish
• 1970 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0011//0000088.000.html Chushiro Hayashi
• 1971 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0012//0000138.000.html Desmond George King-Hele
• 1972 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0013//0000485.000.html Paul Ledoux
• 1975 http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0016//0000359.000.html Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
• 1978 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0020//0000003.000.html William A. Fowler
• 1981 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0022//0000350.000.html Philip James Edwin Peebles
• 1984 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0025//0000231.000.html Donald Lynden-Bell
• 1987 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0029//0000097.000.html Bohdan Paczynski
• 1990 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0032//0000353.000.html Icko Iben
• 1993 http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0034//0000275.000.html Leon Mestel
• 1996 Alan Guth
• 1999 Roger Blandford
• 2002 Douglas O. Gough
• 2005 Rudolph Kippenhahn