Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

The Gold Medal is the highest award of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Recipients

• 1824 Charles Babbage, Johann Franz Encke
• 1826 John Herschel, James South, Wilhelm Struve
• 1827 Francis Baily
• 1828 Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, James Dunlop, Caroline Herschel
• 1829 Rev. William Pearson, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher
• 1830 William Richardson, Johann Franz Encke
• 1831 Captain Henry Kater, Baron Marie-Charles Damoiseau
• 1833 George Biddell Airy
• 1835 Lieut. Manuel J. Johnson
• 1836 John Herschel
• 1837 Otto A. Rosenberger
• 1839 The Hon. John Wrottesley
• 1840 Giovanni Plana
• 1841 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
• 1842 Peter Andreas Hansen
• 1843 Francis Baily
• 1845 Captain William Henry Smyth
• 1846 George Biddell Airy
• 1849 William Lassell
• 1850 Otto Wilhelm Struve
• 1851 Annibale de Gasparis
• 1852 Christian August Friedrich Peters
• 1853 John Russell Hind
• 1854 Charles Rümker
• 1855 William Rutter Dawes
• 1856 Robert Grant
• 1857 Heinrich Schwabe
• 1858 The Rev. Robert Main
• 1859 Richard Christopher Carrington
• 1860 Peter Andreas Hansen
• 1861 Hermann Goldschmidt
• 1862 Warren de la Rue
• 1863 Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander
• 1865 George Phillips Bond
• 1866 John Couch Adams
• 1867 William Huggins, William Allen Miller
• 1868 Urbain Le Verrier
• 1869 Edward James Stone
• 1870 Charles Delaunay
• 1872 Giovanni Schiaparelli
• 1874 Simon Newcomb
• 1875 Heinrich d'Arrest
• 1876 Urbain Le Verrier
• 1878 Baron Ercole Dembowski
• 1879 Asaph Hall
• 1881 Axel Möller
• 1882 David Gill
• 1883 Benjamin A. Gould
• 1884 Andrew Ainslie Common
• 1885 William Huggins
• 1886 Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Pritchard
• 1887 George William Hill
• 1888 Arthur Auwers
• 1889 Maurice Loewy
• 1892 George Howard Darwin
• 1893 Hermann Carl Vogel
• 1894 S. W. Burnham
• 1895 Isaac Roberts
• 1896 Seth Carlo Chandler
• 1897 Edward Emerson Barnard
• 1898 William Frederick Denning
• 1899 Frank McClean
• 1900 Henri Poincaré
• 1901 Edward Charles Pickering
• 1902 Jacobus Kapteyn
• 1903 Hermann Struve
• 1904 George Ellery Hale
• 1905 Lewis Boss
• 1906 William Wallace Campbell
• 1907 Ernest William Brown
• 1908 Sir David Gill
• 1909 Oskar Backlund
• 1910 Friedrich Küstner
• 1911 Philip Herbert Cowell
• 1912 Arthur Robert Hinks
• 1913 Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
• 1914 Max Wolf
• 1915 Alfred Fowler
• 1916 John L. E. Dreyer
• 1917 Walter Sydney Adams
• 1918 John Evershed
• 1919 Guillaume Bigourdan
• 1921 Henry Norris Russell
• 1922 James Hopwood Jeans
• 1923 Albert A. Michelson
• 1924 Arthur Eddington
• 1925 Sir Frank Watson Dyson
• 1926 Albert Einstein
• 1927 Frank Schlesinger
• 1928 Ralph Allen Sampson
• 1929 Ejnar Hertzsprung
• 1930 John Stanley Plaskett
• 1931 Willem de Sitter
• 1932 Robert Grant Aitken
• 1933 Vesto Slipher
• 1934 Harlow Shapley
• 1935 E. Arthur Milne
• 1936 Hisashi Kimura
• 1937 Harold Jeffreys
• 1938 William Hammond Wright
• 1939 Bernard Lyot
• 1940 Edwin Hubble
• 1943 Harold Spencer Jones
• 1944 Otto Struve
• 1945 Bengt Edlen
• 1946 Jan Oort
• 1947 Marcel Minnaert
• 1948 Bertil Lindblad
• 1949 Sydney Chapman
• 1950 Joel Stebbins
• 1951 Anton Pannekoek
• 1952 John Jackson
• 1953 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1954 Walter Baade
• 1955 Dirk Brouwer
• 1956 Thomas George Cowling
• 1957 Albrecht Unsöld
• 1958 André Danjon
• 1959 Raymond Arthur Lyttleton
• 1960 Viktor Ambartsumian
• 1961 Herman Zanstra
• 1962 Bengt Strömgren
• 1963 H. H. Plaskett
• 1964 Martin Ryle, Maurice Ewing
• 1965 Edward Bullard, G. M. Clemence
• 1966 Ira S. Bowen, Harold C. Urey
• 1967 Hannes Alfven, Allan Sandage
• 1968 Sir Fred Hoyle, Walter Munk
• 1969 A. T. Price, Martin Schwarzschild
• 1970 Horace W. Babcock
• 1971 F. Press, Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley
• 1972 H. I. S. Thirlaway, Fritz Zwicky
• 1973 F. Birch, Edwin Salpeter
• 1974 Ludwig Biermann, K. E. Bullen
• 1975 Jesse Greenstein, Ernst Öpik
• 1976 William H. McCrea, J. A. Ratcliffe
• 1977 D. R. Bates, John G. Bolton
• 1978 Lyman Spitzer, James Van Allen
• 1979 L. Knopoff, C. G. Wynne
• 1980 C. L. Pekeris, Maarten Schmidt
• 1981 J. F. Gilbert, Sir Bernard Lovell
• 1982 Riccardo Giacconi, Sir Harrie Massey
• 1983 M. J. Seaton, Fred Whipple
• 1984 S. K. Runcorn, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
• 1985 Thomas Gold, Stephen Hawking
• 1986 G. E. Backus, A. Dalgarno
• 1987 Takesi Nagata, Martin Rees
• 1988 D. L. Anderson, C. de Jager
• 1989 R. Hide, K. A. Pounds
• 1990 J. W. Dungey, B. E. J. Pagel
• 1991 Vitaly Ginzburg, G. J. Wasserburg
• 1992 D. P. McKenzie, Eugene N. Parker
• 1993 Peter Goldreich, Donald Lynden-Bell
• 1994 James E. Gunn, T. R. Kaiser
• 1995 J. Houghton, Rashid Sunyaev
• 1996 K. Creer, Vera Rubin
• 1997 D. Farley, Donald Osterbrock
• 1998 R. L. Parker, James Peebles
• 1999 K. Budden, Bohdan Paczynski
• 2000 L. Lucy, R. Hutchinson
• 2001 Hermann Bondi, H. Rishbeth
• 2002 Leon Mestel, J. A. Jacobs
• 2003 John Bahcall, D. Gubbins
• 2004 Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Grenville Turner
• 2005 Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Carole Jordan