Name Institution Year Charles G. Abbot (died 1973) Smithsonian Institution 1915 Charles Alcock Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 2001 Lawrence H. Aller (died 2003) University of California, Los Angeles 1962 V. Ambartsumian (died 1996) Byurakan Astronomical Observatory 1954 J. Roger P. Angel University of Arizona 2000 David Arnett University of Arizona 1985 Horace W. Babcock (died 2003) Carnegie Institution for Science 1954 John N. Bahcall (died 2005) Institute for Advanced Study 1976 Neta A. Bahcall Princeton University 1997 Steven A. Balbus University of Oxford 2015 Mitchell C. Begelman University of Colorado Boulder 2024 S. Jocelyn Bell Burnell University of Oxford 2005 Lars Bildsten University of California, Santa Barbara 2018 James J. Binney University of Oxford 2022 Roger D. Blandford Stanford University 2005 John G. Bolton (died 1993) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization 1980 J. Richard Bond University of Toronto 2011 William J. Borucki NASA Ames Research Center 2020 E. Margaret Burbidge (died 2020) University of California, San Diego 1978 Bernard F. Burke (died 2018) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1970 Adam S. Burrows Princeton University 2015 Daniela Calzetti University of Massachusetts at Amherst 2020 Claude R. Canizares Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1993 John E. Carlstrom The University of Chicago 2002 Catherine Cesarsky CEA Saclay 2004 S. Chandrasekhar (died 1995) The University of Chicago 1955 David Charbonneau Harvard University 2017 Roger A. Chevalier University of Virginia 1996 Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Aarhus University 2021 George W. Clark (died 2023) Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1980 Gerald Clemence (died 1974) United States Naval Observatory 1952 Arthur D. Code (died 2009) University of Arizona 1971 Judith G. Cohen California Institute of Technology 2017 Marshall H. Cohen California Institute of Technology 1984 Stirling A. Colgate (died 2013) Los Alamos National Laboratory 1984 Francoise Combes Paris Observatory 2023 Alexander Dalgarno (died 2015) Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 2001 Marc Davis University of California, Berkeley 1991 Raymond Davis Jr. (died 2006) University of Pennsylvania 1982 Gerard de Vaucouleurs (died 1995) The University of Texas at Austin 1986 Bruce T. Draine Princeton University 2007 Frank D. Drake (died 2022) SETI Institute 1972 Alan Dressler Carnegie Institution for Science 1996 Daniel Eisenstein Harvard University 2014 Ronald D. Ekers Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization 2018 Richard S. Ellis University College London 2024 Sandra M. Faber University of California, Santa Cruz 1985 Andrew C. Fabian University of Cambridge 2016 George Field (died 2024) Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 1989 Debra Ann Fischer Yale University 2021 Alexei V. Filippenko University of California, Berkeley 2009 Wendy L. Freedman The University of Chicago 2003 Kenneth C. Freeman Australian National University 2017 Herbert Friedman (died 2000) U.S. Naval Research Laboratory 1960 Neil Gehrels (died 2017) National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2010 Reinhard Genzel Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics 2000 Andrea M. Ghez University of California, Los Angeles 2004 Riccardo Giacconi (died 2018) Johns Hopkins University 1971 Leo Goldberg (died 1987) Kitt Peak National Observatory 1958 Jesse L. Greenstein (died 2002) California Institute of Technology 1957 James E. Gunn Princeton University 1977 Fiona A. Harrison California Institute of Technology 2014 Lee Hartmann University of Michigan 2024 Stephen Hawking (died 2018) University of Cambridge 1992 Chushiro Hayashi (died 2010) Kyoto University 1989 Martha P. Haynes Cornell University 2000 Timothy M. Heckman Johns Hopkins University 2016 D. S. Heeschen (died 2012) National Radio Astronomy Observatory 1971 Carl E. Heiles University of California, Berkeley 1990 George H. Herbig (died 2013) University of Hawaii at Manoa 1964 Lars E. Hernquist Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 2008 Fred Hoyle (died 2001) University of Cambridge 1969 John P. Huchra (died 2010) Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 1993 Icko Iben Jr. (died 2025) University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 1985 David C. Jewitt University of California, Los Angeles 2005 Christine A. Jones Forman Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 2023 Steven M. Kahn University of California, Berkeley 2025 Victoria M. Kaspi McGill University 2010 K. I. Kellermann National Radio Astronomy Observatory 1975 Robert C. Kennicutt Jr. Texas A&M University 2006 Lisa J. Kewley Australian National University 2021 Ivan King (died 2021) University of Washington 1982 Robert P. Kirshner Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory 1998 John Kormendy The University of Texas at Austin 2020 Chryssa Kouveliotou The George Washington University 2013 Robert P. Kraft (died 2015) University of California, Santa Cruz 1971 Shrinivas R. Kulkarni California Institute of Technology 2003 R. B. Leighton (died 1997) California Institute of Technology 1966 Frank J. Low (died 2009) University of Arizona 1974 Willem J. Luyten (died 1994) University of Minnesota 1970 Donald Lynden-Bell (died 2018) University of Cambridge 1990 Roger Lynds (died 2023) National Optical Astronomy Observatory 1974 Chung-Pei Ma University of California, Berkeley 2022 Claire E. Max University of California, Santa Cruz 2008 Nicholas U. Mayall (died 1993) Kitt Peak National Observatory 1949 Michel G. Mayor University of Geneva 2010 Richard A. McCray (died 2021) University of Colorado at Boulder 1989 Christopher F. McKee University of California, Berkeley 1992 Maura A. McLaughlin West Virginia University 2024 Péter István Mészáros The Pennsylvania State University - University Park 2021 William B. McKinnon Washington University in St. Louis 2023 Dimitri Mihalas (died 2013) Los Alamos National Laboratory 1981 James M. Moran Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 1998 W. W. Morgan (died 1994) Yerkes Observatory 1956 Samuel Harvey Moseley Jr. Quantum Circuits 2023 Guido Münch (died 2020) California Institute of Technology 1967 Norman W. Murray University of Toronto 2025 Ramesh Narayan Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 2013 Jerry E. Nelson (died 2017) University of California, Santa Cruz 1996 Gerry Neugebauer (died 2014) California Institute of Technology 1973 Otto E. Neugebauer (died 1990) Institute for Advanced Study 1977 Jan H. Oort (died 1992) Sterrewacht-Huygens Laboratorium of the Netherlands 1953 Ernst J. Öpik (died 1985) Armagh Observatory 1975 Donald E. Osterbrock (died 2007) University of California, Santa Cruz 1966 Eve C. Ostriker Princeton University 2022 Jeremiah P. Ostriker (died 2025) Princeton University 1974 Bohdan Paczyński (died 2007) Princeton University 1984 Eugene N. Parker (died 2022) University of Chicago 1967 P. James E. Peebles Princeton University 1988 Manuel Peimbert Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1987 Arno A. Penzias (died 2024) New Enterprise Associates 1975 C. H. F. Peters (died 1890) Hamilton College 1876 George W. Preston Carnegie Institution for Science 1977 Eliot Quataert Princeton University 2020 V. Radhakrishnan (died 2011) Raman Research Institute 1996 Anthony C. Readhead California Institute of Technology 1995 Martin J. Rees Trinity College, Cambridge 1982 Mark J. Reid Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 2019 George H. Rieke University of Arizona 2011 Marcia J. Rieke University of Arizona 2012 Adam G. Riess Johns Hopkins University 2009 Morton S. Roberts (died 2024) National Radio Astronomy Observatory 1983 Luis F. Rodríguez Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 2008 Vera C. Rubin (died 2016) Carnegie Institution for Science 1981 Martin Ryle (died 1984) University of Cambridge 1975 E. E. Salpeter (died 2008) Cornell University 1967 Anneila I. Sargent California Institute of Technology 2021 Wallace L. W. Sargent (died 2012) California Institute of Technology 2005 Paul L. Schechter Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2003 Brian P. Schmidt Australian National University 2008 Maarten Schmidt (died 2022) California Institute of Technology 1978 Martin Schwarzschild (died 1997) Princeton University 1956 Nicholas Z. Scoville California Institute of Technology 2022 Sara Seager Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015 Michael J. Seaton (died 2007) University of London 1986 Uroš Seljak University of California, Berkeley 2019 Irwin I. Shapiro Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 1974 Stephen A. Shectman Carnegie Institution for Science 2014 I. S. Shklovsky (died 1985) Russian Academy of Sciences 1973 Frank H. Shu (died 2023) National Tsinghua University 1987 David N. Spergel Simons Foundation 2007 Hyron Spinrad (died 2015) University of California, Berkeley 1988 Lyman Spitzer Jr. (died 1997) Princeton University 1952 Volker Springel Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics 2007 Charles C. Steidel California Institute of Technology 2006 James M. Stone Institute for Advanced Study 2022 Bengt Strömgren (died 1987) University of Copenhagen 1971 Rashid A. Sunyaev Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics 1991 Alexander S. Szalay Johns Hopkins University 2023 Yasuo Tanaka (died 2018) Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics 1998 Harvey D. Tananbaum Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 2005 Patrick Thaddeus (died 2017) Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 1987 Joseph H. Taylor Jr. Princeton University 1981 Alan M. Title (died 2026) Lockheed Martin Space Technology Advanced R&D Labs 2004 John L. Tonry University of Hawaii at Manoa 2018 Alar Toomre Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1983 Richard Tousey (died 1997) Naval Research Laboratory 1960 Scott D. Tremaine Institute for Advanced Study 2002 Robert J. Trumpler (died 1956) Lick Observatory 1932 J. Anthony Tyson University of California, Davis 1997 Andrzej Udalski Warsaw University 2012 C. Megan Urry Yale University 2016 Hendrik C. van de Hulst (died 2000) Sterrewacht-Huygens Laboratorium of the Netherlands 1977 Ewine F. van Dishoeck Leiden University 2001 Risa H. Wechsler Stanford University 2025 David H. Weinberg The Ohio State University 2023 William (Jack) Welch (died 2024) University of California, Berkeley 1999 Ray J. Weymann Carnegie Institution for Science 1984 Fred L. Whipple (died 2004) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory 1959 Simon D. M. White Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics 2007 Albert E. Whitford (died 2002) University of California, Santa Cruz 1954 Olin C. Wilson (died 1994) Carnegie Institution of Washington 1960 Robert W. Wilson Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian 1979 Edward Wright University of California, Los Angeles 2011 Rosemary F. Wyse Johns Hopkins University 2025 Yakov Zeldovich (died 1987) Russian Academy of Sciences 1979