The Clifford W. Holmes Award is presented annually near Big Bear City, California, at the RTMC Astronomy Expo to an individual for a significant contribution to popularizing astronomy.
Established in 1978 by Richard Poremba as the Astronomy for America Award, it was renamed for Clifford W. Holmes, the founder of the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) in 1980.
Awardees
Recipients of the award are: Astronomy Outreach
1978: Paul Zurakowski 1979: Arthur Leonard 1980: Robert E. Cox 1981: Richard Berry 1982: Dennis di Cicco 1983: John Dobson 1984: Jim Jacobson 1985: Arthur Leonard 1986: Bob Schalck 1987: Clyde Tombaugh 1988: Kevin Medlock 1989: David H. Levy 1990: Dick Buchroeder, () 1991: Rick Shaffer 1992: Ashley McDermott 1993: John Sanford 1994: Donald C. Parker 1995: Don Machholz 1996: Gil Clark 1997: Randall Wilcox 1998: Randy Johnson 1999: William Seavey 2000: Tom Cave 2001: Scott W. Roberts 2002: Ed Krupp 2003: Steve Edberg 2004: Dean Ketelsen 2005: Mike Simmons 2006: Al Fink 2007: Dave Rodrigues 2008: Laura and Bob Eklund 2009: Don Nicholson 2010: David Crawford () 2011: Robert Victor 2012: Robert D. Stephens 2013: Jim Benet 2014: Jane Houston-Jones 2015: Terri Lappin () 2016: Randy and Pamela Shivak
See also
List of astronomy awards
References
External links RTMC Astronomy Expo