The Eddington Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics. It is named after Sir Arthur Eddington. First awarded in 1953, the frequency of the prize has varied over the years, at times being every one, two or three years. Since 2013 it has been awarded annually.
Recipients
Year Name(s) 1953 Georges Lemaître 1955 Hendrik C. van de Hulst 1958 Horace W. Babcock 1959 James Stanley Hey 1960 Robert d'Escourt Atkinson 1961 Hans Albrecht Bethe 1962 André Lallemand 1963 J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild 1964 Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey 1965 Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka 1966 Rupert Wildt 1967 Robert F. Christy 1968 Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss 1969 Antony Hewish 1970 Chūshirō Hayashi 1971 Desmond George King-Hele 1972 Paul Ledoux 1975 Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose 1978 William A. Fowler 1981 Philip James Edwin Peebles 1984 Donald Lynden-Bell 1987 Bohdan Paczyński 1990 Icko Iben 1993 Leon Mestel 1996 Alan Guth 1999 Roger Blandford 2002 Douglas O. Gough 2005 Rudolph Kippenhahn 2007 Igor D. Novikov 2009 Jim Pringle 2011 Gilles Chabrier 2013 James Binney 2014 Andrew KingWinners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes - full details 2015 Rashid Sunyaev 2016 Anthony Bell 2017 Cathie Clarke 2018 Claudia Maraston 2019 Bernard F. Schutz 2020 Steven Balbus 2021 Hiranya Peiris 2022 Alan Heavens 2023 Monika Mościbrodzka 2024 Pedro Ferreira 2025 Douglas C. Heggie 2026 Debora Šijački
See also
List of astronomy awards List of physics awards List of prizes named after people
References
External links Winners