Bruce Medalists of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

The highest honour of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal, for lifetime contributions to astronomy. It has been awarded most years since 1898. Below are those mathematicians in our archive who have received this honour.

1898 Newcomb
1909 Hill
1911 Poincaré
1914 Backlund
1920 Brown
1923 Baillaud
1924 Eddington
1931 Sitter
1938 Hubble
1938 Harlow Shapley
1945 Milne
1952 Chandrasekhar
1960 Ambartsumian
1970 Hoyle
1976 Öpik
1985 Cowling
2001 Bethe

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Full list of Bruce Medallists.