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Henry Draper Medal - Definition and Overview
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The Henry Draper Medal was established by the widow of Henry Draper, and is awarded by the US National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astrophysics.

The recipients have been:

1886 Samuel Pierpont Langley
1888 Edward Charles Pickering
1890 Henry A. Rowland
1893 Hermann Carl Vogel
1899 James E. Keeler
1901 William Huggins
1904 George Ellery Hale
1906 William Wallace Campbell
1910 Charles Greeley Abbot
1913 Henri-Alexandre Deslandres
1915 Joel Stebbins
1916 Albert Abraham Michelson
1918 Walter Sydney Adams
1919 Charles Fabry
1920 Alfred Fowler
1921 Pieter Zeeman
1922 Henry Norris Russell
1924 Arthur Eddington
1926 Harlow Shapley
1928 William Hammond Wright
1931 Annie Jump Cannon
1932 Vesto Slipher
1934 John S. Plaskett
1936 Charles E. Mees
1940 Robert W. Wood
1942 Ira S. Bowen
1945 Paul W. Merrill
1947 Hans Bethe
1949 Otto Struve
1951 Bernard Lyot
1955 Hendrik C. van de Hulst
1957 Horace W. Babcock
1960 Martin Schwarzschild
1963 Richard Tousey
1965 Martin Ryle
1968 Bengt Edlen
1971 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1974 Lyman Spitzer
1977 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson
1980 William W. Morgan
1985 Joseph H. Taylor
1989 Riccardo Giovanelli and Martha P. Haynes
1993 Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman
1997 Bohdan Paczynski
2001 R. Paul Butler and Geoffrey W. Marcy

See also

External links

  • NAS Henry Draper Medal (http://www4.nationalacademies.org/nas/nasaward.nsf/(urllinks)/E78D1211380410E085256A490066B505?opendocument)

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