Henry Norris Russell Lectureship
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The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research.
[edit] Previous lecturers
This list of lecturers is from the American Astronomical Society's website.[1]
- 1946 Henry Norris Russell
- 1947 Walter Sydney Adams
- 1948 No award
- 1949 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
- 1950 Harlow Shapley
- 1951 Jan Oort
- 1952 No award
- 1953 Enrico Fermi
- 1953 Lyman Spitzer
- 1954 No award
- 1955 Paul Merrill
- 1956 Joel Stebbins
- 1957 Otto Struve
- 1958 Walter Baade
- 1959 Gerard P. Kuiper
- 1960 Martin Schwarzschild
- 1961 William Wilson Morgan
- 1962 Grote Reber
- 1963 William Alfred Fowler
- 1964 Ira S. Bowen
- 1965 Bengt Strömgren
- 1966 Richard Tousey
- 1967 Otto Neugebauer
- 1968 John G. Bolton
- 1969 Eugene Parker
- 1970 Jesse L. Greenstein
- 1971 Fred Hoyle
- 1972 Allan Sandage
- 1973 Leo Goldberg
- 1974 Edwin Salpeter
- 1975 George Herbig
- 1976 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- 1977 Olin C. Wilson
- 1978 Maarten Schmidt
- 1979 Peter Goldreich
- 1980 Jeremiah P. Ostriker
- 1981 Riccardo Giacconi
- 1982 Bart Bok
- 1983 Herbert Friedman
- 1984 E. Margaret Burbidge
- 1985 Olin J. Eggen
- 1986 Albert Whitford
- 1987 Fred L. Whipple
- 1988 Gerard de Vaucouleurs
- 1989 Icko Iben, Jr.
- 1990 Sidney van den Bergh
- 1991 Donald Osterbrock
- 1992 Lawrence Aller
- 1993 James Peebles
- 1994 Vera Rubin
- 1995 Robert Kraft
- 1996 Gerry Neugebauer
- 1997 Alastair Cameron
- 1998 Charles Townes
- 1999 John Bahcall
- 2000 Donald Lynden-Bell
- 2001 Wallace Sargent
- 2002 George Wallerstein
- 2003 George Wetherill
- 2004 Martin Rees
- 2005 James E. Gunn
- 2006 Bohdan Paczynski
- 2007 David L. Lambert
- 2008 Rashid Sunyaev
[edit] References
- ^ "AAS Grants, Prizes & Awards". http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php#russell. Retrieved on 2008-04-02.
