Bruce Medal

Bruce Medal
The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. It is named after Catherine Wolfe Bruce, an American patroness of astronomy, and was first awarded in 1898.
List of Bruce Medalists
Source: Astronomical Society of the Pacific
1898 – Simon Newcomb
1899 – Arthur Auwers
1900 – David Gill
1902 – Giovanni V. Schiaparelli
1904 – William Huggins
1906 – Hermann Carl Vogel
1908 – Edward C. Pickering
1909 – George William Hill
1911 – Henri Poincaré
1913 – Jacobus C. Kapteyn
1914 – Oskar Backlund
1915 – William Wallace Campbell
1916 – George Ellery Hale
1917 – Edward Emerson Barnard
1920 – Ernest W. Brown
1921 – Henri A. Deslandres
1922 – Frank W. Dyson
1923 – Benjamin Baillaud
1924 – Arthur Stanley Eddington
1925 – Henry Norris Russell
1926 – Robert G. Aitken
1927 – Herbert Hall Turner
1928 – Walter S. Adams
1929 – Frank Schlesinger
1930 – Max Wolf
1931 – Willem de Sitter
1932 – John S. Plaskett
1933 – Carl V.L. Charlier
1934 – Alfred Fowler
1935 – Vesto M. Slipher
1936 – Armin O. Leuschner
1937 – Ejnar Hertzsprung
1938 – Edwin P. Hubble
1939 – Harlow Shapley
1940 – Frederick H. Seares
1941 – Joel Stebbins
1942 – Jan H. Oort
1945 – E. Arthur Milne
1946 – Paul Merrill
1947 – Bernard Lyot
1948 – Otto Struve
1949 – Harold Spencer Jones
1950 – Alfred H. Joy
1951 – Marcel Minnaert
1952 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1953 – Harold D. Babcock
1954 – Bertil Lindblad
1955 – Walter Baade
1956 – Albrecht Unsöld
1957 – Ira S. Bowen
1958 – William Wilson Morgan
1959 – Bengt Strömgren
1960 – Viktor A. Ambartsumian
1961 – Rudolph Minkowski
1962 – Grote Reber
1963 – Seth Barnes Nicholson
1964 – Otto Heckmann
1965 – Martin Schwarzschild
1966 – Dirk Brouwer
1967 – Ludwig Biermann
1968 – Willem J. Luyten
1969 – Horace W. Babcock
1970 – Fred Hoyle
1971 – Jesse Greenstein
1972 – Iosif S. Shklovskii
1973 – Lyman Spitzer Jr.
1974 – Martin Ryle
1975 – Allan R. Sandage
1976 – Ernst J. Öpik
1977 – Bart J. Bok
1978 – Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1979 – William A. Fowler
1980 – George Herbig
1981 – Riccardo Giacconi
1982 – E. Margaret Burbidge
1983 – Yakov B. Zel'dovich
1984 – Olin C. Wilson
1985 – Thomas G. Cowling
1986 – Fred L. Whipple
1987 – Edwin E. Salpeter
1988 – John G. Bolton
1989 – Adriaan Blaauw
1990 – Charlotte E. Moore Sitterly
1991 – Donald E. Osterbrock
1992 – Maarten Schmidt
1993 – Martin Rees
1994 – Wallace Sargent
1995 – P. James E. Peebles
1996 – Albert E. Whitford
1997 – Eugene Parker
1998 – Donald Lynden-Bell
1999 – Geoffrey R. Burbidge
2000 – Rashid A. Sunyaev
2001 – Hans A. Bethe
2002 – Bohdan Paczyński
2003 – Vera C. Rubin
2004 – Chūshirō Hayashi
2005 – Robert Kraft
2006 – Frank J. Low
2007 – Martin Harwit
2008 – Sidney van den Bergh
2009 – Frank H. Shu
2010 – Gerry Neugebauer
2011 – Jeremiah P. Ostriker
2012 – Sandra M. Faber
2013 – James E. Gunn
2014 – Kenneth Kellermann
2015 – Douglas N. C. Lin
2016 – Andrew Fabian
2017 – Nick Scoville
2018 – Tim Heckman
2019 – Martha P. Haynes
2020 – Prize suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic
2021 - Bruce Elmegreen
2022 - Ellen Gould Zweibel
See also
List of astronomy awards
Prizes named after people
Sonoma State's Directory
References
External links
20th Century Astronomers
Astronomy prizes
Awards established in 1898