왕립천문학회 금메달
수상자

| 연도 | 천문학 | 지구물리학 | 비고 | 참고 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1824 | Charles Babbage Johann Franz Encke | Charles Babbage Johann Franz Encke |  |  |
| 1825 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1826 | John Herschel James South Wilhelm Struve | John Herschel James South Wilhelm Struve |  |  |
| 1827 | Francis Baily | Francis Baily |  |  |
| 1828 | Thomas Makdougall Brisbane James Dunlop Caroline Herschel | Thomas Makdougall Brisbane James Dunlop Caroline Herschel |  |  |
| 1829 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel William Pearson Heinrich Christian Schumacher | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel William Pearson Heinrich Christian Schumacher |  |  |
| 1830 | Johann Franz Encke William Richardson | Johann Franz Encke William Richardson |  |  |
| 1831 | Marie-Charles Damoiseau Henry Kater | Marie-Charles Damoiseau Henry Kater |  |  |
| 1832 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1833 | George Biddell Airy | George Biddell Airy |  |  |
| 1834 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1835 | Manuel J. Johnson | Manuel J. Johnson |  |  |
| 1836 | John Herschel | John Herschel |  |  |
| 1837 | Otto A. Rosenberger | Otto A. Rosenberger |  |  |
| 1838 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1839 | John Wrottesley | John Wrottesley |  |  |
| 1840 | Jean Plana | Jean Plana |  |  |
| 1841 | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel | Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel |  |  |
| 1842 | Peter Andreas Hansen | Peter Andreas Hansen |  |  |
| 1843 | Francis Baily | Francis Baily |  |  |
| 1844 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1845 | William Henry Smyth | William Henry Smyth |  |  |
| 1846 | George Biddell Airy | George Biddell Airy |  |  |
| 1847 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1848 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1849 | William Lassell | William Lassell |  |  |
| 1850 | Otto Wilhelm Struve | Otto Wilhelm Struve |  |  |
| 1851 | Annibale de Gasparis | Annibale de Gasparis |  |  |
| 1852 | Christian August Friedrich Peters | Christian August Friedrich Peters |  |  |
| 1853 | John Russell Hind | John Russell Hind |  |  |
| 1854 | Charles Rümker | Charles Rümker |  |  |
| 1855 | William Rutter Dawes | William Rutter Dawes |  |  |
| 1856 | Robert Grant | Robert Grant |  |  |
| 1857 | Heinrich Schwabe | Heinrich Schwabe |  |  |
| 1858 | Robert Main | Robert Main |  |  |
| 1859 | Richard Christopher Carrington | Richard Christopher Carrington |  |  |
| 1860 | Peter Andreas Hansen | Peter Andreas Hansen |  |  |
| 1861 | Hermann Goldschmidt | Hermann Goldschmidt |  |  |
| 1862 | Warren de la Rue | Warren de la Rue |  |  |
| 1863 | Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander | Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander |  |  |
| 1864 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1865 | George Phillips Bond | George Phillips Bond |  |  |
| 1866 | John Couch Adams | John Couch Adams |  |  |
| 1867 | William Huggins William Allen Miller | William Huggins William Allen Miller |  |  |
| 1868 | Urbain Le Verrier | Urbain Le Verrier |  |  |
| 1869 | Edward James Stone | Edward James Stone |  |  |
| 1870 | Charles-Eugène Delaunay | Charles-Eugène Delaunay |  |  |
| 1871 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1872 | Giovanni Schiaparelli | Giovanni Schiaparelli |  |  |
| 1873 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1874 | Simon Newcomb | Simon Newcomb |  |  |
| 1875 | Heinrich d'Arrest | Heinrich d'Arrest |  |  |
| 1876 | Urbain Le Verrier | Urbain Le Verrier |  |  |
| 1877 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1878 | Ercole Dembowski | Ercole Dembowski |  |  |
| 1879 | Asaph Hall | Asaph Hall |  |  |
| 1880 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1881 | Axel Möller | Axel Möller |  |  |
| 1882 | David Gill | David Gill |  |  |
| 1883 | Benjamin A. Gould | Benjamin A. Gould |  |  |
| 1884 | Andrew Ainslie Common | Andrew Ainslie Common |  |  |
| 1885 | William Huggins | William Huggins |  |  |
| 1886 | Edward Charles Pickering Charles Pritchard | Edward Charles Pickering Charles Pritchard |  |  |
| 1887 | George William Hill | George William Hill |  |  |
| 1888 | Arthur Auwers | Arthur Auwers |  |  |
| 1889 | Maurice Loewy | Maurice Loewy |  |  |
| 1890 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1891 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1892 | George Howard Darwin | George Howard Darwin |  |  |
| 1893 | Hermann Carl Vogel | Hermann Carl Vogel |  |  |
| 1894 | S. W. Burnham | S. W. Burnham |  |  |
| 1895 | Isaac Roberts | Isaac Roberts |  |  |
| 1896 | Seth Carlo Chandler | Seth Carlo Chandler |  |  |
| 1897 | Edward Emerson Barnard | Edward Emerson Barnard |  |  |
| 1898 | William Frederick Denning | William Frederick Denning |  |  |
| 1899 | Frank McClean | Frank McClean |  |  |
| 1900 | Henri Poincaré | Henri Poincaré |  |  |
| 1901 | Edward Charles Pickering | Edward Charles Pickering |  |  |
| 1902 | Jacobus Kapteyn | Jacobus Kapteyn |  |  |
| 1903 |  | Hermann Struve |  |  |
| 1904 |  | George Ellery Hale |  |  |
| 1905 | Lewis Boss |  |  |  |
| 1906 | William Wallace Campbell |  |  |  |
| 1907 |  | Ernest William Brown |  |  |
| 1908 |  | David Gill |  |  |
| 1909 | Oskar Backlund |  |  |  |
| 1910 |  | Friedrich Küstner |  |  |
| 1911 | Philip Herbert Cowell |  |  |  |
| 1912 | Arthur Robert Hinks | Arthur Robert Hinks |  |  |
| 1913 |  | Henri-Alexandre Deslandres |  |  |
| 1914 | Max Wolf |  |  |  |
| 1915 |  | Alfred Fowler |  |  |
| 1916 | John L. E. Dreyer |  |  |  |
| 1917 | Walter Sydney Adams |  |  |  |
| 1918 |  | John Evershed |  |  |
| 1919 | Guillaume Bigourdan |  |  |  |
| 1920 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1921 | Henry Norris Russell |  |  |  |
| 1922 | James Hopwood Jeans |  |  |  |
| 1923 | Albert A. Michelson |  |  |  |
| 1924 | Arthur Eddington |  |  |  |
| 1925 |  | Frank Watson Dyson |  |  |
| 1926 | Albert Einstein |  |  |  |
| 1927 | Frank Schlesinger |  |  |  |
| 1928 |  | Ralph Allen Sampson |  |  |
| 1929 | Ejnar Hertzsprung |  |  |  |
| 1930 | John Stanley Plaskett |  |  |  |
| 1931 | Willem de Sitter |  |  |  |
| 1932 | Robert Grant Aitken |  |  |  |
| 1933 | Vesto Slipher |  |  |  |
| 1934 | Harlow Shapley |  |  |  |
| 1935 | E. Arthur Milne |  |  |  |
| 1936 |  | Hisashi Kimura |  |  |
| 1937 |  | Harold Jeffreys |  |  |
| 1938 | William Hammond Wright |  |  |  |
| 1939 |  | Bernard Lyot |  |  |
| 1940 | Edwin Hubble |  |  |  |
| 1941 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1942 | No award | No award |  |  |
| 1943 |  | Harold Spencer Jones |  |  |
| 1944 | Otto Struve |  |  |  |
| 1945 |  | Bengt Edlén |  |  |
| 1946 | Jan Oort |  |  |  |
| 1947 |  | Marcel Minnaert |  |  |
| 1948 | Bertil Lindblad |  |  |  |
| 1949 |  | Sydney Chapman |  |  |
| 1950 | Joel Stebbins |  |  |  |
| 1951 | Anton Pannekoek |  |  |  |
| 1952 | John Jackson |  |  |  |
| 1953 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |  |  |  |
| 1954 | Walter Baade |  |  |  |
| 1955 | Dirk Brouwer |  |  |  |
| 1956 |  | Thomas George Cowling |  |  |
| 1957 | Albrecht Unsöld |  |  |  |
| 1958 |  | André Danjon |  |  |
| 1959 | Raymond Arthur Lyttleton |  |  |  |
| 1960 | Viktor Ambartsumian |  |  |  |
| 1961 | Herman Zanstra |  |  |  |
| 1962 | Bengt Strömgren |  |  |  |
| 1963 |  | H. H. Plaskett |  |  |
| 1964 | Martin Ryle | Maurice Ewing |  |  |
| 1965 | Gerald Maurice Clemence | Edward Bullard |  |  |
| 1966 | Ira Sprague Bowen | Harold Clayton Urey |  |  |
| 1967 | Allan Sandage | Hannes Alfvén |  |  |
| 1968 | Fred Hoyle | Walter Munk |  |  |
| 1969 | Martin Schwarzschild | Albert Thomas Price |  |  |
| 1970 | Horace W. Babcock |  |  |  |
| 1971 | Richard van der Riet Woolley | Frank Press |  |  |
| 1972 | Fritz Zwicky | H. I. S. Thirlaway |  |  |
| 1973 | Edwin Salpeter | Francis Birch |  |  |
| 1974 | Ludwig Biermann | K. E. Bullen |  |  |
| 1975 | Jesse Greenstein | Ernst Öpik |  |  |
| 1976 | William H. McCrea | J. A. Ratcliffe |  |  |
| 1977 | John G. Bolton | David R. Bates |  |  |
| 1978 | Lyman Spitzer | James Van Allen |  |  |
| 1979 | C. G. Wynne | Leon Knopoff |  |  |
| 1980 | Maarten Schmidt | Chaim L. Pekeris |  |  |
| 1981 | Bernard Lovell | J. Freeman Gilbert |  |  |
| 1982 | Riccardo Giacconi | Harrie Massey |  |  |
| 1983 | M. J. Seaton | Fred Whipple |  |  |
| 1984 | Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich | S. K. Runcorn |  |  |
| 1985 | Stephen Hawking | Thomas Gold |  |  |
| 1986 | Alexander Dalgarno | George E. Backus |  |  |
| 1987 | Martin Rees | Takesi Nagata |  |  |
| 1988 | Cornelis de Jager | Don L. Anderson |  |  |
| 1989 | Ken Pounds | Raymond Hide |  |  |
| 1990 | B. E. J. Pagel | James W. Dungey |  |  |
| 1991 | Vitaly Ginzburg | G. J. Wasserburg |  |  |
| 1992 | Eugene N. Parker | Dan P. McKenzie |  |  |
| 1993 | Donald Lynden-Bell | Peter Goldreich |  |  |
| 1994 | James E. Gunn | Thomas R. Kaiser |  |  |
| 1995 | Rashid Sunyaev | John T. Houghton |  |  |
| 1996 | Vera Rubin | Kenneth Creer |  |  |
| 1997 | Donald Osterbrock | Donald Farley |  |  |
| 1998 | James Peebles | Robert L. Parker |  |  |
| 1999 | Bohdan Paczyński | Kenneth Budden |  |  |
| 2000 | Leon Lucy | Robert Hutchison |  |  |
| 2001 | Hermann Bondi | Henry Rishbeth |  |  |
| 2002 | Leon Mestel | J. A. Jacobs |  |  |
| 2003 | John Bahcall | David Gubbins |  |  |
| 2004 | Jeremiah P. Ostriker | Grenville Turner |  |  |
| 2005 | Margaret Burbidge Geoffrey Burbidge | Carole Jordan |  |  |
| 2006 | Simon White | Stan Cowley |  |  |
| 2007 | John L. Culhane | Nigel O. Weiss |  |  |
| 2008 | Joseph Silk | Brian Kennett |  |  |
| 2009 | David A. Williams | Eric Priest |  |  |
| 2010 | Douglas Gough | John Woodhouse |  |  |
| 2011 | Richard Ellis | Eberhard Grün |  |  |
| 2012 | Andy Fabian | John Brown |  |  |
| 2013 | Roger Blandford | Chris Chapman |  |  |
| 2014 | Carlos Frenk | John Zarnecki |  |  |
| 2015 | Michel Mayor | Mike Lockwood |  |  |
| 2016 | John D. Barrow | Philip England |  |  |
| 2017 | Nick Kaiser | Michele Dougherty |  |  |
| 2018 | James Hough | Robert White |  |  |
| 2019 | Robert Kennicutt | Margaret Kivelson |  |  |
| 2020 | Sandra Moore Faber | Yvonne Elsworth |  |  |
| 2021 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Thorne Lay |  |  |
| 2022 | George Efstathiou | Richard B. Horne |  |  |
↑  Silver medalists: Jean-Louis Pons, Charles Rümker
↑  Silver medalists: Mark Beaufoy, William Samuel Stratford
1 2  The first woman to receive the Gold Medal was Caroline Herschel in 1828. No other woman did so until Vera Rubin in 1996.
↑  Replaced by testimonial medals, awarded to John Couch Adams, George Biddell Airy, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, George Bishop, George Everest, Peter Andreas Hansen, Karl Ludwig Hencke, John Herschel, John Russell Hind, John William Lubbock, Urbain Le Verrier & Maxmilian Weisse
↑  Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge received the first joint award since 1886