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	Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gold Medal is the highest award of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		In the early years, more than one medal was often awarded in a year, but by 1833 only one medal was being awarded per year.
		The practice of awarding one medal a year continued until 1963, although two medals were awarded in both 1867 and 1886 and in a few years no award was made.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society (247 words)

	Royal Astronomical Society - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV.
		The society acts as the professional body for astronomers and geophysicists in the UK and fellows may apply for the Science Council's Chartered Scientist status through the society.
		The Society represents the interests of astronomy and geophysics to UK national and regional, and European government and related bodies, and maintains a press office, through which it keeps the media and the public at large informed of relevant developments in these sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society (635 words)

	theory because this is miami. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		the Royal Society in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926 News Tracker Received were the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926.
		Einstein received were the Copley Medal of the Royal Society in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926, Medal of the Royal Society in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926.
		Royal Society in 1925 and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1926 SPAC Policy - Terms of ServiceCopyright 2003 PR Newswire.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~luoma/peace/dist/Adir/AfFdEMFA9Iaqdj.html (5350 words)

	Gold Medals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1839 the Society decided that 'this sum should be converted into two gold medals of equal value, to be designated the Founder’s Medal and the Patron’s'.
		The Founder’s Medal was not awarded, but an inscribed casket was presented to Lady Scott containing the Patron’s Medal and the Special Antarctic Medal awarded to her late husband.
		Patron's Medal - Captain F. Bailey: "for explorations on the border of India and Tibet … and especially for tracing the course of the Tsang-po-Brahmaputra".
	www.rgs.org /templ.php?page=1socigol (5505 words)

	HOYLE, Fred - personal data
		He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1957 and knighted in 1972 and made chief astronomer to Her Majesty.
		Many awards included the Royal Medal of the Royal Society, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the UN Kalinga Prize, and the Balzan Prize.
		Yet, in a time when cosmologists and radio astronomers think they understand the universe based on observations made from this small world, and then twist creationism into that mixture because they cannot conceive of infinity without purpose...Hoyle was exactly what he never wanted to be; a Godsend.
	www.gwillick.com /Spacelight/hoyle.html (810 words)

	Isaac Roberts
		Roberts attended by invitation the Conference of Astronomers at Paris in 1887 which initiated the international survey of the heavens by photography, but took no part in the scheme, which was entrusted to professional astronomers at national observatories with instruments of a uniform type.
		In 1890 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1892 the honorary degree of D.Sc.
		In her most capable hands astronomers know that nothing will be omitted which zeal for the advance of astronomy and affectionate reverence for the memory of the dead can suggest.
	brynjones.members.beeb.net /wastronhist/p_iroberts.html (6172 words)

	Arthur Stanley Eddington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1924 he won the Bruce Medal, the Henry Draper Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		He won the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1928.
		He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society shortly thereafter.
	arthur-stanley-eddington.wikix.ipupdater.com (1614 words)

	Dunlop, James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He was not a trained astronomer, but he had learned much from Rümker and his employer, and between June 1823 and February 1826 he made 40,000 observations and catalogued 7385 stars.
		In addition to the medal of the Royal Astronomical Society Dunlop was awarded medals for his work by the King of Denmark in 1833, and the Institut Royal de France in 1835.
		He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, Edinburgh, in 1832.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/australia/dunlop_james.htm (532 words)

	Descendants of Asaph Hall Present Memorabilia to USNO
		In 1879 Hall was presented with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain for his important find.
		This medal was presented to the Observatory by members of the Hall family on July 11, 1997.
		The first of these was the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain, presented to Hall in 1879.
	www.usno.navy.mil /hallmedal.html (1212 words)

	McMaster University - Office of Public Relations - News Media Services - Media Advisories - 2003 - Physics & Astronomy ...
		Rees is a professor of astronomy and cosmology at the University of Cambridge and Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom.
		His many awards include the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Heineman Prize for Astrophysics of the American Astronomical Society, the Cosmology Prize of the Peter Gruber Foundation and the Einstein Award of the World Cultural Council.
		He is the recipient of the Gold Medal of the U. Department of Commerce (1993), the Michelson Medal of the Franklin Institute (1996) and the Schawlow Prize of the American Physical Society (1998).
	www.mcmaster.ca /ua/opr/nms/advisories/2003/lectures.html (474 words)

	John Couch Adams - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866.
		In 1874-1876 he was president of the Royal Astronomical Society for the second time, when it fell to him to present the gold medal of the year to Leverrier.
		A memorial tablet, with an inscription by Archbishop Benson, is placed in the Cathedral at Truro; and Mr Passmore Edwards erected a public institute in his honour at Launceston, near his birthplace.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/John_Couch_Adams (2041 words)

	The Thorrowgood Telescope
		The first owner was Rev. William Rutter Dawes, described as 'eagle-eyed' when he was presented with the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society for his work on the measurement of double stars (1855), most of which had been done with telescopes made by the American optician Alvan Clark.
		He was a founder member of the British Astronomical Association in 1890, at a time when the Royal Astronomical Society refused Fellowships to ladies, and became Treasurer for many years and President for a standard term of two years.
		He bequeathed it to the Royal Astronomical Society, which, having no suitable place to erect it or to store it, offered it to Professor Eddington, Director of the then University Observatory, initially for a period of 10 years.
	www.srcf.ucam.org /astronomy/thorrowgood.html (813 words)

	B-P's Grandfather: Admiral William Henry Smyth
		On 15 June 1826 he was elected F.R.S. (Fellow of the Royal Society), and in 1830 was one of the founders of the Royal Geographical Society.
		In 1845-6 he was president of the R.A.S. (Royal Astronomical Society); in 1849-50, of the R.G.S. (Royal Geographical Society); he was vice-president and foreign secretary of the Royal Society; vice-president and director of the Society of Antiquaries; and was honorary or corresponding member of at least three-fourths of the literary and scientific societies of Europe.
		The Royal Astronomical Society published an in depth biographical sketch and memorial as part of the Report of the Council of the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society following the death of Admiral Smyth in 1865.
	www.pinetreeweb.com /bp-admiral.htm (5296 words)

	Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology; Fred Hoyle; researching panspermia and the origins of life
		Sir Fred Hoyle, a world-renowned astronomer, is acknowledged to be one of the most creative scientists of the 20th century.
		Amongst the numerous awards and distinctions bestowed on him are the UN Kalinga Prize, 1968, the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		He was a Fellow of the Royal Society, Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Sciences, a Vice President of the Royal Society, and the President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and he was knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 1972.
	www.astrobiology.cf.ac.uk /fredhoyle.html (1914 words)

	Belmont Society Front Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He served as President of the American Society for Psychical Research, President of the American Mathematical Society, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, President of the Philosophical Society of Washington, and was the first President of the American Astronomical Society.
		In 1874 he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		In 1878 he received the Great Gold Huygens Medal of the University of Leyden, which is given to astronomers once in twenty years for the most important work accomplished in that science.
	www.belmontnc.4dw.net (524 words)

	SPACE.com -- British 'Steady-State' Astronomer Fred Hoyle Dies
		Fred Hoyle, the English astronomer credited with coining the phrase ``Big Bang'' to describe academic theory on the creation of the cosmos, died Wednesday.
		In 1968 Hoyle was awarded the UN Kalinga Prize, he also received the Royal Medal of the Royal Society and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/astronomy/hoyle_obit_010822.html (423 words)

	:: SCRIPPSNEWS : SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY SCIENTIST AWARDED MEDAL FROM SEISMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
		SSA awards the medal "for outstanding contributions in seismology and earthquake engineering." Gilbert will receive the medal at the SSA's annual meeting in Lake Tahoe, Calif., on April 28, 2005.
		He won two Guggenheim fellowships to the University of Cambridge, was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in 1966, and has won the Balzan Prize, AGU's Bowie Medal and the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		Founded in 1906, the Seismological Society of America is a scientific society devoted to the advancement of earthquake science.
	scrippsnews.ucsd.edu /article_detail.cfm?article_num=634 (526 words)

	Bernard Lyot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1930 he took on an Astronomer position at the Observatoire de Meudon, where he had held an Assistant Astronomer appointment since 1920, and where he became Chief Astronomer in 1943.
		In 1939 he was elected to the Acadé mie des Sciences and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
		Lyot's first astronomical researches aimed at measuring the polarization of sunlight reflected from moons and planets, in order to infer something of their surface's composition.
	www.astro.umontreal.ca /~paulchar/sp/images/lyot.html (365 words)

	Lake County Astronomical Society NightTimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While at the Pulkovo Observatory, early in his career, one of his most ambitious observational projects was to systematically survey the northern skies in order to discover and observe double stars.
		Despite his interest in the measurement of stellar parallax, the Sun’s movement through space and the structure of the Universe, he was among those astronomers who wrongly believed our Galaxy to be the extent of the whole Universe.
		The Otto von Struve who is the subject of this biography is also the grandfather of the more familiar astronomer Otto Struve (1897-1963) who came to the United States in 1921 and received his Ph.D. (1923) from the University of Chicago.
	www.bpccs.com /lcas/Articles/struv2.htm (338 words)

	Herschel and His Sister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A fine astronomer in her own right--she found eight comets--Caroline Herschel assisted her brother in his observations and telescope building.
		Margaret Herschel (William's daughter-in-law) described Caroline's many roles: "She learned enough of mathematics and of methods of calculation...to be able to commit to writing the results of his researches.
		For this achievement, she received a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828, a high honor that would not be granted to another woman for more than a century and a half.
	www.nasm.si.edu /exhibitions/gal111/universe/etu/html/looking_further/telescopes/herschel_sister.html (226 words)

	Fritz Zwicky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		1898 –; February 8, 1974) was a Swiss astronomer, born in Varna, Bulgaria to Swiss parents.
		Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG).
		The asteroid 1803 Zwicky and Zwicky crater on the moon were both named in his honour.
	en.efactory.pl /Fritz_Zwicky (138 words)

	George Ellery Hale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He had been awarded the Janssen Medal by the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1894 and the Rumford Medal by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1902.
		In 1904 he received the Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society and the Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
		The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has some biographical material related to his winning their 1916 Bruce Medal.
	www.mwoa.org /hale.html (443 words)

	GirlsCanDo.com
		Vera Rubin is an observational astronomer who has devoted her professional career to the study of motions of galaxies in the universe.
		In 1996, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, the first time that honor was bestowed on a woman since 1828 (when it was given to Carolina Herschel).
		I never knew a single astronomer, but my parents were very supportive, and my father helped me build a telescope.
	www.girlscando.com /cgi-bin/cf/cf_scitech/scitech_careerinterview.cfm (348 words)

	Runcorn - Physics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		1984 awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (the address of President (RAS) Raymond Hide, is published in the Quarterly Journal of the RAS vol 25, pp 229-30)
		Stanley Keith Runcorn was born in Southport in 1922, and graduated in engineering at Cambridge in 1942.
		Professor Runcorn received many honours, including Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1965, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and the Fleming medal of the American Geophysical Union.
	www.phys.ncl.ac.uk /includes/printerfriendly.php?theURL=/about/history/runcorn.htm (295 words)

	Walter Sydney Adams Papers, American Philosophical Society
		His spectroscopic observations also helped to confirm the presence of two fundamental classes of stars, giants and dwarfs, and he and his colleague A. Kolschütter discovered the use of spectral parallax (a comparison of the intrinsic versus observed brightness of stars) in determining the distance to stars.
		In recognition of his efforts, Adams was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1915, and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1917, and the Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1918.
		The lecture he gave at Princeton on the size of the universe will be published in the publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/a/adams.htm (1134 words)

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