Eddington Medal


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.
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Recipients

YearName
1953Georges Lemaître
1955Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1958Horace W. Babcock
1959James Stanley Hey
1960Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
1961Hans Albrecht Bethe
1962André Lallemand
1963J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild
1964Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey
1965Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka
1966Rupert Wildt
1967Robert F. Christy
1968Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss
1969Antony Hewish
1970Chūshirō Hayashi
1971Desmond George King-Hele
1972Paul Ledoux
1975Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
1978William A. Fowler
1981Philip James Edwin Peebles
1984Donald Lynden-Bell
1987Bohdan Paczyński
1990Icko Iben
1993Leon Mestel
1996Alan Guth
1999Roger Blandford
2002Douglas O. Gough
2005Rudolph Kippenhahn
2007Igor D. Novikov
2009Jim Pringle
2011Gilles Chabrier
2013James Binney
2014Andrew King
2015Rashid Sunyaev
2016Anthony Bell
2017Cathie Clarke
2018Claudia Maraston
2019Bernard F. Schutz
2020Steven Balbus
2021Hiranya Peiris
2022Alan Heavens
2023Monika Mościbrodzka
2024Pedro Ferreira
2025Douglas C. Heggie