Eddington Medal

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.

Eddington Medal
Website	http://www.ras.org.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2263-eddington-medal

Recipients

Year	Name(s)
1953	Georges Lemaître[1]
1955	Hendrik C. van de Hulst[2]
1958	Horace W. Babcock[3]
1959	James Stanley Hey[4]
1960	Robert d'Escourt Atkinson[5]
1961	Hans Albrecht Bethe[6]
1962	André Lallemand[7]
1963	J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild[8]
1964	Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey[9]
1965	Robert Pound, Glen A. Rebka[10]
1966	Rupert Wildt[11]
1967	Robert F. Christy[12]
1968	Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss[13]
1969	Antony Hewish[14]
1970	Chūshirō Hayashi[15]
1971	Desmond George King-Hele[16]
1972	Paul Ledoux[17]
1975	Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose[18]
1978	William A. Fowler[19]
1981	Philip James Edwin Peebles[20]
1984	Donald Lynden-Bell[21]
1987	Bohdan Paczyński[22]
1990	Icko Iben[23]
1993	Leon Mestel[24]
1996	Alan Guth[25]
1999	Roger Blandford[25]
2002	Douglas O. Gough[26]
2005	Rudolph Kippenhahn[27]
2007	Igor D. Novikov[28]
2009	Jim Pringle[29]
2011	Gilles Chabrier[30]
2013	James Binney[31]
2014	Andrew King[32]
2015	Rashid Sunyaev[33]
2016	Anthony Bell[34]
2017	Cathie Clarke[35]
2018	Claudia Maraston[36]
2019	Bernard F. Schutz[37]
2020	Steven Balbus[38]
2021	Hiranya Peiris[39]
2022	Alan Heavens[40]
2023	Monika Mościbrodzka[41]
2024	Pedro Ferreira[42]
2025	Douglas C. Heggie[43]

See also

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