Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research. The idea for the lectureship came from then society President Harlow Shapley in 1945, who led the fund raising drive to collect $10,000 from the membership. One of the major contributors was the Mexican Ambassador to the United States, as Russell had been an important representative at the dedication ceremony for the Mexican National Observatory. The goal was reached in December 1946, using not a little amount of coercive language by Shapley. The first Russell lecturer was, naturally, fellow American astronomer Henry Norris Russell, for whom the award is named. Russell gave a lecture titled "The Royal Road of Eclipses" concerning eclipsing binary stars.

Previous lecturers This list of lecturers is from the American Astronomical Society's website. +YearWinner1946Henry Norris Russell1947Walter Sydney Adams1948No award1949Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar1950Harlow Shapley1951Jan Oort1952No award1953Enrico Fermi, Lyman Spitzer1954No award1955Paul Merrill1956Joel Stebbins1957Otto Struve1958Walter Baade1959Gerard P. Kuiper1960Martin Schwarzschild1961William Wilson Morgan1962Grote Reber1963William Alfred Fowler1964Ira S. Bowen1965 Bengt Strömgren1966Richard Tousey1967Otto Neugebauer1968John G. Bolton1969Eugene Parker1970Jesse L. Greenstein1971 Fred Hoyle1972Allan Sandage1973Leo Goldberg1974Edwin Salpeter1975George Herbig1976Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin1977Olin C. Wilson1978Maarten Schmidt1979Peter Goldreich1980 Jeremiah P. Ostriker1981Riccardo Giacconi1982Bart Bok1983Herbert Friedman1984E. Margaret Burbidge1985Olin J. Eggen1986Albert Whitford1987Fred L. Whipple1988Gerard de Vaucouleurs1989Icko Iben, Jr.1990Sidney van den Bergh1991Donald Osterbrock1992Lawrence Aller1993James Peebles1994Vera Rubin1995Robert Kraft1996Gerry Neugebauer1997Alastair Cameron1998Charles Townes1999John Bahcall2000Donald Lynden-Bell2001Wallace Sargent2002George Wallerstein2003George Wetherill2004Martin Rees2005 James E. Gunn2006Bohdan Paczyński2007David L. Lambert2008Rashid Sunyaev2009George W. Preston2010Margaret J. Geller2011 Sandra M. Faber2012William David Arnett2013Ken Freeman (astronomer)2014George B. Field2015Giovanni G. Fazio2016Christopher F. McKee2017Eric Becklin2018Joseph Silk2019Ann Merchant Boesgaard2020 Scott Tremaine2021 Nick Scoville2022Richard Mushotzky2023Frank Shu2024Neta Bahcall2025Marcia J. Rieke

See also

List of astronomy awards Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

References