Eddington Medal

Template:Infobox award 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<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
1955	Hendrik C. van de Hulst<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1958	Horace W. Babcock<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1959	James Stanley Hey<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1960	Robert d'Escourt Atkinson<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1961	Hans Albrecht Bethe<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1962	André Lallemand<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1963	J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1964	Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1965	Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1966	Rupert Wildt<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1967	Robert F. Christy<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1968	Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1969	Antony Hewish<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1970	Chūshirō Hayashi<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1971	Desmond George King-Hele<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1972	Paul Ledoux<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1975	Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1978	William A. Fowler<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1981	Philip James Edwin Peebles<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1984	Donald Lynden-Bell<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1987	Bohdan Paczyński<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1990	Icko Iben<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1993	Leon Mestel<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1996	Alan Guth<ref name="RASPDF">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1999	Roger Blandford<ref name="RASPDF" />
2002	Douglas O. Gough<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
2005	Rudolph Kippenhahn<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007	Igor D. Novikov<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2009	Jim Pringle<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
2011	Gilles Chabrier<ref> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2013	James Binney<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2014	Andrew King<ref>Winners of the 2014 awards, medals and prizes - full details Template:Webarchive</ref>
2015	Rashid Sunyaev<ref name="winners_2015">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2016	Anthony Bell<ref name="winner_2016">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2017	Cathie Clarke<ref name="winner_2017">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2018	Claudia Maraston<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2019	Bernard F. Schutz<ref name="winners 2019">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Steven Balbus<ref name="Winners2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2021	Hiranya Peiris<ref name="Winners2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2022	Alan Heavens<ref name="Winners2022">Template:Citation</ref>
2023	Monika Mościbrodzka<ref name="Winners2023">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2024	Pedro Ferreira<ref name="winners_2024">Template:Cite press release</ref>
2025	Douglas C. Heggie<ref name="winners_2025">Template:Cite press release</ref>

See also

• List of astronomy awards
• List of physics awards
• List of prizes named after people

External links

• Winners