The Henry Draper Medal was established by the widow of Henry Draper, and is awarded by the U. Henry Draper ( March 7, 1837 &ndash November 20 1882) was an American doctor and Astronomer. S. National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astrophysics. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS is a corporation in the United States whose members serve Pro bono as "advisers to the nation on science Astrophysics is the branch of Astronomy that deals with the Physics of the Universe, including the physical properties ( Luminosity,
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. Year 1886 ( MDCCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22 1834 Roxbury Massachusetts &ndash February 27 1906 Aiken South Carolina) was an American Astronomer Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Edward Charles Pickering ( July 19 1846 – February 3 1919) was an American Astronomer and Physicist, brother Year 1890 ( MDCCCXC) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Henry Augustus Rowland ( November 27, 1848 &ndash April 16, 1901) was a U Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Hermann Carl Vogel ( April 3 1841 &ndash August 13 1907) was a German Astronomer. Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common James Edward Keeler ( September 10 1857 – August 12 1900) was an American Astronomer. Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Sir William Huggins, OM, FRS ( February 7 1824 &ndash May 12 1910) was an English Astronomer Year 1904 ( MCMIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year starting on George Ellery Hale ( June 29 1868 &ndash February 21 1938) was an American solar Astronomer, born in Chicago Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting William Wallace Campbell ( April 11 1862 &ndash June 14 1938) was an American Astronomer. Year 1910 ( MCMX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Charles Greeley Abbot ( May 31, 1872 &ndash December 17, 1973) was an American Astrophysicist, Astronomer Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Henri Alexandre Deslandres ( July 24, 1853 &ndash January 15, 1948) was a French Astronomer, director of the Meudon Year 1915 ( MCMXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year Joel Stebbins ( July 30 1878 &ndash March 16 1966) was an American Astronomer who pioneered Photoelectric Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Albert Abraham Michelson ( December 19, 1852 &ndash May 9, 1931) was a Polish - American Physicist known Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Walter Sydney Adams ( December 20 1876 &ndash May 11 1956) was an American Astronomer. Year 1919 ( MCMXIX) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Maurice Paul Auguste Charles Fabry ( 11 June 1867, Marseille &ndash 9 July 1945, Paris) was a French Physicist Year 1920 ( MCMXX) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display 1920 of the Gregorian calendar Alfred Fowler ( March 22 1868 Yorkshire &ndash June 24 1940) was an English Astronomer. Year 1921 ( MCMXXI) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1921 calendar of the Gregorian calendar Pieter Zeeman ( Zonnemaire, May 25, 1865 &ndash Amsterdam, October 9, 1943) (ˈzeːmɑn was a Dutch Year 1922 ( MCMXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Henry Norris Russell ( October 25, 1877 &ndash February 18, 1957) was an American Astronomer who along with Ejnar Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944 was an English Astrophysicist of the early 20th century Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Harlow Shapley ( November 2 1885 &ndash October 20 1972) was an American Astronomer. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. William Hammond Wright ( November 4, 1871 &ndash May 16, 1959) was an American Astronomer. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Annie Jump Cannon ( December 11, 1863 &ndash April 13, 1941) was an American Astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental Year 1932 ( MCMXXXII) was a Leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. Vesto Melvin Slipher ( November 11, 1875 &ndash November 8, 1969) was an American Astronomer. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Stanley Plaskett ( November 17 1865 &ndash October 17 1941) was a Canadian Astronomer. Year 1936 ( MCMXXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. 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 Edlén |
| 1971 | Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar |
| 1974 | Lyman Spitzer |
| 1977 | Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson |
| 1980 | William Wilson Morgan |
| 1985 | Joseph Taylor |
| 1989 | Riccardo Giovanelli and Martha P. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Robert Williams Wood ( May 2, 1868 – August 11, 1955) was an American Physicist. Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Ira Sprague Bowen ( December 21, 1898 &ndash February 6, 1973) was an American Astronomer. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Paul Willard Merrill ( August 15 1887 &ndash July 19 1961) was an American Astronomer whose specialty was Spectroscopy. Year 1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Hans Albrecht Bethe (/hans ˈalbʀɛçt ˈbeːtə/ ( July 2 1906 &ndash March 6, 2005) was a German - American Physicist Year 1949 ( MCMXLIX) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Not to be confused with his grandfather Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819 &ndash 1905 ---- Otto Struve ( August 12 1897 – Year 1951 ( MCMLI) was a Common year starting on Monday. Events of 1951 January Bernard Ferdinand Lyot ( February 27 1897 in Paris &ndash April 2 1952 in Cairo) was a French Astronomer Year 1955 ( MCMLV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar) Hendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst ( Utrecht, Nov 19 1918 &ndash Leiden, Jul 31 2000) was a Dutch Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Horace Welcome Babcock ( September 13 1912 &ndash August 29 2003) was an American Astronomer. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Martin Schwarzschild ( May 31 1912 &ndash April 10 1997) was a German American Astronomer. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Richard Tousey ( May 18 1908 &ndash April 15 1997) was an American Astronomer. Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. Sir Martin Ryle ( September 27, 1918 - October 14, 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Bengt Edlén ( November 2, 1906 &ndash February 10, 1993) was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer specialized in Spectroscopy Year 1971 ( MCMLXXI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ( Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர் English ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr( Year 1974 ( MCMLXXIV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Lyman Strong Spitzer Jr ( June 26, 1914 &ndash March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist. Also 1977 (album by Ash. Year 1977 ( MCMLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays Arno Allan Penzias (born April 26, 1933) is an American Physicist and Nobel laureate in physics. Robert Woodrow Wilson (born January 10, 1936) is an American Astronomer, Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) William Wilson Morgan ( January 3 1906 &ndash June 21 1994) was an American Astronomer. Year 1985 ( MCMLXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar) Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr (born March 29, 1941) is an American Astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) Haynes |
| 1993 | Ralph A. Alpher and Robert Herman |
| 1997 | Bohdan Paczynski |
| 2001 | R. Paul Butler and Geoffrey Marcy |
| 2005 | Charles L. Bennett |
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Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Ralph Asher Alpher ( February 3, 1921 - August 12, 2007) was a U Robert Herman ( August 29, 1914 - February 13, 1997) was a United States scientist best known for his work with Ralph Alpher Year 1997 ( MCMXCVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski ( 8 February 1940 - 19 April 2007) was a Polish Astronomer, a leading scientist Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Paul Butler is an Astronomer who searches for Extrasolar planets He and Geoffrey Marcy were the first to discover Extrasolar planets orbiting Geoffrey W Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is famous for discovering more Extrasolar planets than anyone else 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Dr Charles L Bennett (born November 1956 is an American observational Astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. A list of famous Prizes Medals and Awards including cups trophies, Bowls Badges State decorations etc This is a list of Prizes that are named after people'. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people see Lists of etymologies.Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic