Royal Astronomical Society Awards

"Outstanding research in the fields of astronomy and geophysics"

Founded as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820, it became the Royal Astronomical Society upon receiving a Royal charter in 1831, its aim is to encourage and promote the study of astronomy, geophysics and other connected branches of science.

  • Gold Medal in Astronomy

John Herschel (1826)

John Herschel (1836)

John Herschel “Testimonial Medal” (1848)

John Couch Adams “Testimonial Medal” (1848)

John Couch Adams (1866)

Charles Pritchard (1886)

George Howard Darwin (1892)

Raymond Arthur Lyttleton (1959)

Fred Hoyle (1968)

Lyman Spitzer (1978)

Leon Mestel (2002)

Douglas Gough (2010)

Roger Blandford (2013)

  • Gold Medal in Geophysics

Ralph Allen Sampson (1928)

Harold Jeffreys (1937)

Keith Edward Bullen (1974)

Kenneth Budden (1999)

Grenville Turner ( 2004)

  • Chapman Medal

Frederick Vine (1973) (jointly)

  • Eddington Medal

Roger Penrose (1975) (jointly)

Leon Mestel (1993)

Roger Blandford (1999)

Douglas Gough (2002)

  • Herschel Medal

Andrew G Lyne (1992)

  • Price Medal

Roger Searle (2011)

  • Jackson-Gwilt Medal

Roger Francis Griffin (1980)

  • Fowler Award

Andrew Pontzen (2016)

  • George Darwin Lectureship

Roger Blandford (1989) “Gravitational Lenses”

Michael Perryman (1998) “A Stereoscopic View of the Galaxy”

  • Gerald Whitrow Lectureship

Andrew Pontzen (2020)

  • Michael Penston Thesis Prize (Astronomy)

Stephen Hancock (1995)

  • Keith Runcorn Thesis Prize (Geophysics)

James Verdon (2010)

  • Harold Jeffreys Lectureship

(Walter) Francis Nimmo (2019)

 

Find out more: https://ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/awards