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	Max Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He also discovered Wolf 359, a red dwarf that is one of the nearest stars to our solar system.
		Interestingly, the Bruce Medal and asteroid Brucia are both named after the same person, Catherine Wolfe Bruce.
		Wolf crater on the Moon is named after him, and so is the asteroid 827 Wolfiana.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/M/Max-Wolf.htm (319 words)

	Alberts, Bruce -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When the hipster comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity in New York City in 1964, he was publicly defended as a social satirist “in the tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain” and as a Savonarola of fl humor.
		Bruce himself noted, “All my humor is based on destruction and despair.” His irreverence fostered the cynical routines used by almost all...
		With the grace of a dancer and the skill of a master fighter, actor Bruce Lee brought martial arts movies to mainstream cinema in the 1970s, a time when the United States was becoming increasingly interested in Eastern culture.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9115333?tocId=9115333 (648 words)

	ESA - Science - Home - 3 October
		Wolf was a German astronomer who founded and directed the Königstuhl Observatory.
		He was among the first astronomers to show that the spiral nebulae have absorption spectra typical of stars and thus differ from gaseous nebulae.
		His most important contribution was the introduction of photography to discover hundreds of asteroids, the first of which he named Brucia in honor of the donor of his 16-inch double telescope, Catherine Wolfe Bruce.
	www.esa.int /esaSC/SEMKFQMKPZD_index_2.html (112 words)

	Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bruce Medal for lifetime contribution to astronomy research.
		The medal is named after Catherine Wolfe Bruce.
		The Klumpke-Roberts Award for outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy, named for Dorothea Klumpke-Roberts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Astronomical_Society_of_the_Pacific (263 words)

	Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The third son of Charles Bruce, the 5th earl, Thomas Bruce was born on July 20, 1766.
		Elgin, Thomas Bruce, 7th earl of, 11th Earl Of Kincardine
		The objects were removed from the Parthenon at Athens and from other ancient buildings and shipped to England by arrangement of Thomas Bruce, 7th Lord Elgin, who was British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire between 1799 and 1803.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9322334 (637 words)

	ASP Annual Awards
		Dr. Robert Kraft of the University of California, Santa Cruz, is this year's recipient of the prestigious Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal for a lifetime achievement in astronomy.
		Our highest award is the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, awarded for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy.
		He received the Bruce Medal for lifetime achievement and in 1982 the Klumpke-Roberts Award for the popularization of astronomy.
	www.astrosociety.org /membership/awards/awards.html (513 words)

	Bruce Catton -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As a child living in a small town in Michigan, Catton was stimulated by the reminiscences of the Civil War that he heard from local veterans.
		More results on "Bruce Catton" when you join.
		Born Charles Bruce Catton on Oct. 9, 1899, in Petoskey, Mich., he served in the Navy during World War I before becoming a newspaper journalist.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9021854?tocId=9021854 (679 words)

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		Chushiro Hayashi is the 2004 recipient of the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal.
		The Bruce Medal, one of astronomy's oldest and most prestigious awards, has been presented since 1898 to individual astronomers for significant, lifetime achievement in astronomy.
		In addition to the Bruce Medal, the ASP announces the recipients of its other annual awards.
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	Catherine Wolfe Bruce -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Catherine Wolfe Bruce -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Catherine Wolfe Bruce (1816 – 1900) was a noted American patroness of astronomy.
		She donated money for purchases of telescopes by (Click link for more info and facts about Harvard College Observatory) Harvard College Observatory and by (Click link for more info and facts about Max Wolf) Max Wolf, among others.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/catherine_wolfe_bruce.htm (60 words)

	Hans Bethe awarded medal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, emeritus professor of physics at Cornell and one of the world's most honored scientists, has been named the winner of the prestigious Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), one of America's oldest and largest astronomy organizations.
		The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal is the ASP's highest honor and one of the most coveted awards in the astronomical community.
		It is presented for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicles/6.7.01/Bethe-ASP.html (262 words)

	Vera Rubin Wins 2003 ASP Bruce Medal and Other ASP Award Winners \| SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
		Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal: Vera Rubin, Carnegie Institution of Washington.
		The ASP's highest honor, and one of the highest honors in the astronomical community, the Bruce Medal is presented for a lifetime of outstanding research in astronomy.
		It is with great pleasure that the ASP bestows this year's Bruce medal on Vera Rubin.
	www.spaceref.com /news/viewpr.html?pid=11424 (1632 words)

	Spitzer, Lyman (1914-1997)
		In 1968, Spitzer's dream of putting a telescope in space began to come true, with the launch of the highly successful Orbiting Astronomical Observatory.
		In 1973 he was awarded the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
		Spitzer continued to lobby NASA and Congress to develop a space telescope.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Spitzer.html (1055 words)

	The Bruce Medalists
		For more on the medal and its donor, Catherine Wolfe Bruce, see Joseph S. Tenn, “A Brief History of the Bruce Medal of the A.S.P.,”
		Joseph S. Tenn of Sonoma State University exhibited photographs of the Bruce medalists at the ASP’s centennial meeting in 1989.
		The author is grateful to B.J. Fundaro of Sonoma State University and Paul F. Newman of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for assistance with some of the images on these pages.
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /brucemedalists (330 words)

	RENOWNED ASTROPHYSICISTS VISIT ARMAGH
		As a female working in a largely man's world, Margaret had suffered from much discrimination in her early career and could not condone it by accepting the prize.
		Margaret and Geoffrey were also the 1982 and 1999 recipients of the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
		Whilst they have both worked at the University of California at San Diego since the early 1960s, Geoffrey served as Director of the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona from 1978 to 1984, while Margaret was the Director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux from 1972 to 1973.
	star.arm.ac.uk /press/Burbidge.html (522 words)

	[1.01] Bruce Medalists at the Mt. Wilson Observatory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One bit of evidence for this is the amazing number of its staff members awarded the Bruce Medal.
		The Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific has been awarded for lifetime contributions to astronomy since 1898.
		It wasn't until 1963 that the number of medalists who had worked primarily in the United States reached half the total.
	www.aas.org /publications/baas/v36n5/aas205/67.htm (306 words)

	Princeton - Weekly Bulletin 6/3/02 - People briefs
		The award honors Torquato's "outstanding research accomplishments in advancing our fundamental understanding of the microstructure and bulk physical properties of heterogeneous materials." It will be presented to him at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in New Orleans in November.
		The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has awarded its annual Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal to Princeton astrophysicist Bodhan Paczynski.
		Previous winners of the Bruce Award include some of Princeton's most distinguished physicists: James Peebles, Lyman Spitzer, Martin Schwarzchild and Henry Russell.
	www.princeton.edu /~compub/pwb/02/0603/3c.shtml (1074 words)

	Joseph S. Tenn
		He has been active in the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), and served for twelve years as a member of its history committee, which he chaired from 1993-1999.
		His biographies of the Bruce Medalists and a list of his publications are available online.
		He recently wrote four articles for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, to be published in 2006 by Springer.
	www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu /people/faculty/tenn (378 words)

	University of California Observatories
		Recently this system was used to discover a moon of a type previously unknown orbiting the 10th planet of our solar system.
		Professor emeritus Robert P. Kraft was awarded the 2005 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP).
		The prestigious Bruce Gold Medal is the highest honor awarded by the ASP, honoring a lifetime of fundamental contributions to the field of astronomy.
	www.ucolick.org (594 words)

	TIMELINE of Asian American History between 1980 and 1989
		In 1983, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with W.A. Fowler for their finding in the physical processes of the structure and evolution of stars.
		His other awards include the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal in 1952 for lifetime contributions to astronomy, and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1962.
		He has written numerous books on his theories and is recognized as one of the few scientists in history to consistently contribute a high level of scientific research.
	us_asians.tripod.com /timeline-1980.html (2557 words)

	Bruce Medallists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bruce Medallists of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
		The highest honour of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal, for lifetime contributions to astronomy.
		Below are those mathematicians in our archive who have received this honour.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Societies/BruceMedal.html (51 words)

	Accolades (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The award, given by the Optical Society of America, recognizes Oka's work in experimental and theoretical high resolution molecular spectroscopy.
		Eugene Parker, the S. Chandrasekhar Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics, has received the 1997 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal.
		The award, presented by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, is given for distinguished contributions to the field of astronomy over the recipient's lifetime.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /970515/accolades.shtml (277 words)

	Mercury: The ASP Awards.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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		The Bruce Medal, endowed by Catherine Wolfe Bruce of New York City, and first awarded in 1898, is given by the ASP to "that astronomer whose work has most deserved it." It is among the highest honors given by the astronomical community.
		Over the past 100 or so years, the medal has been awarded to scientists whose research has been seminal in the advancement of astronomy, such as those who founded fields of study, who advanced them, and who synthesized them.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:75435357&refid=holomed_1 (196 words)

	Mercury: Horace W. Babcock (1912-2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Horace Welcome Babcock died in Santa Barbara, California on August 29 at the age of 90 after a life of astronomical vision, invention, and discovery.
		Babcock was the 1969 recipient of the ASP's Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, awarded annually for lifetime achievement in astronomy.
		Babcock was born in Pasadena, California, below Mount Wilson Observatory, in 1912, the year...
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go2164/is_200311/ai_n6576406 (140 words)

	ENDLESS., BOUNDLESS,, STABLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He has published many scientific papers in radio astronomy and also in other fields.
		In 1962 he was awarded the" Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal" by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
		Endless, Boundless, Stable Universe is the text of a lecture delivered by Dr Grote Reber in the University of Tasmania on Wednesday, 8 September 1976.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/9335/G_Reber.html (4405 words)

	Albert Edward Whitford, October 22, 1905–March 28, 2002 \| By Donald E. Osterbrock \| Biographical Memoirs
		He had learned to understand and predict what they could and could not do.
		Over the years he made many important contributions to our knowledge of the Universe, and his peers acknowledged them by making him the Henry Norris Russell lecturer of the American Astronomical Society in 1986 and awarding him the Catherine Wolfe Bruce medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1996.
		The Whitford interstellar extinction “law” and the Whitford report are his best-known legacies to us.
	www.nap.edu /html/biomems/awhitford.html (6744 words)

	October 3 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Died 3 Oct 1932 (born 21 Jun 1863)
		Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf was a German astronomer who founded and directed the Königstuhl Observatory.
		which he named Brucia in honor of the donor of his 16-inch double telescope, Catherine Wolfe Bruce.
	www.todayinsci.com /10/10_03.htm (2298 words)

	A Tribute To Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - 1983 Physics Nobelist
		He also worked in relativistic astrophysics, and his last book was Newton's Principia for the Common Reader.
		In 1952, he received the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal, for lifetime contributions to astronomy.
		He was awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1962.
	www.tamil.net /people/andrew/subra.htm (5375 words)

	Faculty Honors and Distinctions
		John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, 1998
		Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal, The Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1997
		Bruce V. and Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor, 1998
	physics.uchicago.edu /honors.html (804 words)

	Distinguished Cal-Tech astronomer to present public talk
		This information would help us better understand the origin of the Universe, its history and its ultimate fate."
		Among his many honors, Sargent has received the Helen B. Warner Prize of the American Astronomical Society, the Dannie Heineman Prize of the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics, and the Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
		His research interests include quasar absorption lines, active galactic nuclei, superclusters of galaxies, and large-scale structures of the Universe.
	www.news.uiuc.edu /news/02/0401astronomytalk.html (426 words)

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		A search was launched last fall, with the hope that a new dean would be in place by July 1.
		Richard Ullman, the David K.E. Bruce Professor of International Affairs, has been named acting director of the Center of International Studies, which Rothschild has been directing on an interim basis while serving as dean.
		Bestowed annually, the Behrman Award was established in 1975 by a gift from the late Howard Behrman, a physician and book collector.
	www.princeton.edu /webannounce/Princeton_Announcements/Archived/2002/JAN-JUN_Text.html (16961 words)

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