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The Society presents several awards, medals and prizes as part of its remit to support and encourage scientists working in the fields of astronomy and geophysics. Some are aimed at young scientists, while others recognise many years of dedicated service to our sciences. Please note the Society encourages nominations that reflect diversity in ...
The Herschel Medal is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) for "investigations of outstanding merit in observational astrophysics ". It is awarded for a single piece of work so that younger scientists can be candidates for the award. [1] It is named after the RAS's first president, William Herschel. [3]
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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2005) Subjects Of Study: nucleosynthesis. quasar. Margaret Burbidge (born August 12, 1919, Davenport, Cheshire, England—died April 5, 2020, San Francisco, California, U.S.) was an English-born American astronomer who was the first woman to be appointed director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
The Stafford Smythe Memorial Trophy is a Canadian Hockey League (CHL) trophy, awarded to the most valuable player in the annual Memorial Cup tournament. The trophy was first awarded in 1972 and won by Richard Brodeur of the Cornwall Royals.
Dec 19, 2022 · In 1828 the RAS awarded her a Gold Medal for her work on comets and nebulae; it was the first RAS prize given to a woman. A page from William Huggins and Margaret Huggins’s 1899 An Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra provides detailed spectra of several stars. Credit: Royal Astronomical Society
The Chapman Medal is an award of the Royal Astronomical Society, given for "investigations of outstanding merit in the science of the Sun, space and planetary environments or solar-terrestrial physics ". [1] [2] It is named after Sydney Chapman (1888–1970), a British geophysicist who worked on solar-terrestrial physics and aeronomy.
