Eddington Medal - Definition and Overview

The Eddington Medal, named after Sir Arthur Eddington, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.

Recipients

• 1953 Georges Lemaître
• 1955 H. C. van de Hulst
• 1958 H. W. Babcock
• 1959 J. S. Hey
• 1960 R. d'E. Atkinson
• 1961 Hans Albrecht Bethe
• 1962 André Lallemand
• 1963 J. A. R. Sandage, M. Schwarzschild
• 1964 H. Friedman, R. Tousey
• 1965 R. V. Pound, G. A. Rebka
• 1966 R. Wildt
• 1967 Robert F. Christy
• 1968 R. Hanbury Brown, R. Q. Twiss
• 1969 Antony Hewish
• 1970 Chushiro Hayashi
• 1971 Desmond George King-Hele
• 1972 Paul Ledoux
• 1975 Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
• 1978 W. A. Fowler
• 1981 P. J. E. Peebles
• 1984 D. Lynden-Bell
• 1987 B. Paczynski
• 1990 I. Iben, Jr
• 1993 L. Mestel
• 1996 A. Guth
• 1999 R. Blandford
• 2002 Douglas O. Gough