Walter Sydney Adams

Walter Sydney Adams (December 20 1876 – May 11 1956) was an American astronomer.

Honors

Awards

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• The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1917)
• The Henry Draper Medal (1918)
• The Bruce Medal (1928)
• The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1947)

Named after him

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• The asteroid 3145 Walter Adams.
• A crater on Mars.
• The Adams crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.