Jackson-Gwilt Medal

The Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded regularly since 1897 for the invention, improvement, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques; for achievement in observational astronomy; or for achievement in research into the history of astronomy.

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Royal Astronomical Society - 1897

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The medal is named after Hannah Jackson née Gwilt.

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Winners of the medal were:

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• 2004 Pat Wallace
• 2001 John E. Baldwin
• 1998 Alexander Boksenberg
• 1995 Janet Akyüz Mattei
• 1992 Richard Stephenson
• 1989 Richard E. Hills
• 1986 David Malin
• 1983 Grote Reber
• 1980 Roger Griffin
• 1977 Patrick Moore
• 1974 Geoffrey Perry
• 1971 Alan William James Cousins
• 1968 John Guy Porter
• 1963 George Eric Deacon Alcock
• 1960 F. M. Bateson and A. F. A. L. Jones http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0001//0000027.html
• 1956 R. P. de Kock
• 1953 John Philip Manning Prentice
• 1949 Algernon Montagu Newbegin
• 1946 Harold William Newton
• 1942 Reginald Lawson Waterfield
• 1938 Frederick J. Hargreaves and Percy Mayow Ryves
• 1935 Walter Frederick Gale
• 1931 Clyde William Tombaugh
• 1928 William Reid and William Herbert Steavenson
• 1923 A. Stanley Williams and William Sadler Franks
• 1918 T. E. R. Phillips
• 1913 Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin
• 1909 Philibert Jacques Melotte
• 1905 John Tebbutt
• 1902 Thomas David Anderson
• 1897 Lewis Swift
 
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