Jackson-Gwilt Medal

Jackson-Gwilt Medal

The Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society has been awarded regularly since 1897 for the invention, improvement, or development of astronomical instrumentation or techniques; for achievement in observational astronomy; or for achievement in research into the history of astronomy.

The medal is named after Hannah Jackson "née" Gwilt.

Winners of the medal were:

* 2008 Stephen Shectman
* 2006 Keith Taylor
* 2004 Pat Wallace
* 2001 John E. Baldwin
* 1998 Alexander Boksenberg
* 1995 Janet Akyüz Mattei
* 1992 Richard Stephenson
* 1989 Richard E. Hills
* 1986 David Malin
* 1983 Grote Reber
* 1980 Roger Griffin
* 1977 Patrick Moore
* 1974 Geoffrey Perry
* 1971 Alan William James Cousins
* 1968 John Guy Porter
* 1963 George Eric Deacon Alcock
* 1960 F. M. Bateson and A. F. A. L. Jones [http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0001//0000027.html]
* 1956 R. P. de Kock
* 1953 John Philip Manning Prentice
* 1949 Algernon Montagu Newbegin
* 1946 Harold William Newton
* 1942 Reginald Lawson Waterfield
* 1938 Frederick J. Hargreaves and Percy Mayow Ryves
* 1935 Walter Frederick Gale
* 1931 Clyde William Tombaugh
* 1928 William Reid and William Herbert Steavenson
* 1923 A. Stanley Williams and William Sadler Franks
* 1918 T. E. R. Phillips
* 1913 Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin
* 1909 Philibert Jacques Melotte
* 1905 John Tebbutt
* 1902 Thomas David Anderson
* 1897 Lewis Swift

External links

* http://www.ras.org.uk/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=269


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