Francis Birch

Francis Birch
Francis Birch
Nascimento	22 de agosto de 1903 Washington, D.C.
Morte	30 de janeiro de 1992 (88 anos) Cambridge
Nacionalidade	norte-americano
Cidadania	Estados Unidos
Alma mater	Universidade Harvard
Ocupação	professor universitário, geofísico
Prêmios	Lista Legião do Mérito (1945) Medalha Arthur L. Day (1950) Medalha William Bowie (1960) Medalha Nacional de Ciências (1967) Prêmio Vetlesen (1968) Medalha Penrose (1969) Medalha de Ouro da RAS (1973) Prémio Bridgman (1983)
Empregador(a)	Universidade Harvard
Orientador(a)(es/s)	Percy Williams Bridgman
Campo(s)	geofísica
Causa da morte	câncer de próstata
Assinatura

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Albert Francis Birch (Washington, D.C., 22 de agosto de 1903 — Cambridge, 30 de janeiro de 1992) foi um geofísico estadunidense.

Prémios e honrarias

Legião do Mérito (1945)
Medalha Arthur L. Day (1950)^[1]
Medalha William Bowie (1960)^[2]
Medalha Nacional de Ciências (1967)^[3]
Prémio Vetlesen (1968)
Medalha Penrose (1969)^[4]
Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society (1973)^[5]
Prémio Bridgman (1983)

Referências

↑ «Arthur L. Day Medal» (em inglês). The Geological Society of America. Consultado em 11 de janeiro de 2016. Cópia arquivada em 31 de dezembro de 2015
↑ «William Bowie Medal» (em inglês). American Geophysical Union. Consultado em 18 de dezembro de 2015. Cópia arquivada em 2 de outubro de 2015
↑ «The President's National Medal of Science: Recipients» (em inglês). National Science Foundation. Consultado em 25 de setembro de 2016. Cópia arquivada em 25 de setembro de 2016
↑ «Penrose Medalists» (em inglês). The Geological Society of America. Consultado em 13 de dezembro de 2015. Cópia arquivada em 8 de dezembro de 2015
↑ «Gold Medal Winners» (PDF) (em inglês). Royal Astronomical Society. Consultado em 12 de janeiro de 2016. Arquivado do original (pdf) em 24 de setembro de 2015

Ligações externas

Birch's biography at the National Academy of Science
Birch's biography at AGU

Precedido por
Hal Thirlaway e Fritz Zwicky

Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society
1973
com Edwin Ernest Salpeter

Sucedido por
Ludwig Biermann e Keith Edward Bullen

Medalha Nacional de Ciências

Ciência do Comportamento e Social

Década de 1960	1964: Neal Elgar Miller
Década de 1980	1986: Herbert Simon · 1987: Anne Anastasi e George Joseph Stigler · 1988: Milton Friedman
Década de 1990	1990: Leonid Hurwicz e Patrick Suppes · 1991: George A. Miller · 1992: Eleanor J. Gibson · 1994: Robert Merton · 1995: Roger Shepard · 1996: Paul Samuelson · 1997: William Estes · 1998: William Julius Wilson · 1999: Robert Solow
Década de 2000	2000: Gary Stanley Becker · 2003: R. Duncan Luce · 2004: Kenneth Arrow · 2005: Gordon Bower · 2008: Michael Posner · 2009: Mortimer Mishkin
Década de 2010	2011: Anne Treisman · 2012: Robert Axelrod · 2014: Albert Bandura

Ciências Biológicas

Década de 1960	1963: Cornelis Bernardus van Niel · 1964: Theodosius Dobzhansky e Marshall Nirenberg · 1965: Francis Rous, George Gaylord Simpson e Donald Van Slyke · 1966: Edward Fred Knipling, Fritz Albert Lipmann, William Cumming Rose e Sewall Wright · 1967: Kenneth Cole, Harry Harlow, Michael Heidelberger e Alfred Sturtevant · 1968: Horace Barker, Bernard Brodie, Detlev Bronk, Jay Laurence Lush e Burrhus Frederic Skinner · 1969: Robert Hübner, Ernst Mayr
Década de 1970	1970: Barbara McClintock e Albert Sabin · 1973: Daniel Arnon e Earl Sutherland · 1974: Britton Chance, Erwin Chargaff, James Neel e James Hannon · 1975: Hallowell Davis, Paul Gyorgy, Sterling Hendricks e Orville Vogel · 1976: Roger Guillemin, Keith Roberts Porter, Efraim Racker e Edward Osborne Wilson · 1979: Robert H. Burris, Elizabeth C. Crosby, Arthur Kornberg, Severo Ochoa, Earl Stadtman, George Ledyard Stebbins e Paul Weiss
Década de 1980	1981: Philip Handler · 1982: Seymour Benzer, Glenn Burton e Mildred Cohn · 1983: Howard Bachrach, Paul Berg, Wendell Lee Roelofs e Berta Scharrer · 1986: Stanley Cohen, Donald Henderson, Vernon Mountcastle, George Palade e Joan A. Steitz · 1987: Michael DeBakey, Theodor Otto Diener, Harry Eagle, Har Khorana e Rita Levi-Montalcini · 1988: Michael Stuart Brown, Stanley Norman Cohen, Joseph Goldstein, Maurice Hilleman, Eric Kandel e Rosalyn Yalow · 1989: Katherine Esau, Viktor Hamburger, Philip Leder, Joshua Lederberg, Roger Sperry e Harland Goff Wood
Década de 1990	1990: Baruj Benacerraf, Herbert Boyer, Daniel Koshland, Edward Lewis, David Nathan e Edward Donnall Thomas · 1991: Mary Ellen Avery, George Evelyn Hutchinson, Elvin Kabat, Robert Kates, Salvador Luria, Paul Marks, Folke Skoog e Paul Zamecnik · 1992: Maxine Singer e Howard Martin Temin · 1993: Daniel Nathans e Salome G. Waelsch · 1994: Thomas Eisner e Elizabeth Neufeld · 1995: Alexander Rich · 1996: Ruth Patrick · 1997: James Watson e Robert Allan Weinberg · 1998: Bruce Ames e Janet Rowley · 1999: David Baltimore, Jared Diamond e Lynn Margulis
Década de 2000	2000: Nancy Coover Andreasen, Peter H. Raven e Carl Woese · 2001: Francisco José Ayala, George Bass, Mario Capecchi, Ann Graybiel, Gene Likens, Victor A. McKusick e Harold Varmus · 2002: James E. Darnell e Evelyn M. Witkin · 2003: John Michael Bishop, Solomon Halbert Snyder e Charles Yanofsky · 2004: Norman Borlaug, Phillip Allen Sharp e Thomas Starzl · 2005: Anthony Fauci e Torsten Wiesel · 2006: Rita Colwell, Nina Fedoroff e Lubert Stryer · 2007: Robert Lefkowitz e Bert William O’Malley · 2008: Francis Collins, Elaine Fuchs, Craig Venter · 2009: Susan Lindquist, Stanley Prusiner
Década de 2010	2010: Ralph Lawrence Brinster, Rudolf Jaenisch · 2011: Lucy Shapiro, Leroy Hood, Sallie Chisholm · 2012: May Berenbaum, Bruce Alberts · 2013: Rakesh Jain · 2014: Stanley Falkow, Mary-Claire King, Simon Levin

Química

Década de 1960	1964: Roger Adams
Década de 1980	1982: Frank Albert Cotton e Gilbert Stork · 1983: Roald Hoffmann, George Claude Pimentel e Richard Zare · 1986: Harry Barkus Gray, Yuan Lee, Carl Shipp Marvel e Frank Westheimer · 1987: William Summer Johnson, Walter Hugo Stockmayer e Max Tishler · 1988: William Oliver Baker, Konrad Bloch e Elias James Corey · 1989: Richard Barry Bernstein, Melvin Calvin, Rudolph Arthur Marcus e Harden McConnell
Década de 1990	1990: Elkan Blout, Karl August Folkers e John Dombrowski Roberts · 1991: Ronald Breslow, Gertrude Elion, Dudley Robert Herschbach e Glenn Theodore Seaborg · 1992: Howard Ensign Simmons · 1993: Donald James Cram e Norman Hackerman · 1994: George Simms Hammond · 1995: Thomas Cech e Isabella Karle · 1996: Norman Davidson · 1997: Darleane Hoffman e Harold S. Johnston · 1998: John Werner Cahn e George Whitesides · 1999: Stuart Alan Rice, John Ross e Susan Solomon
Década de 2000	2000: John Baldeschwieler e Ralph Hirschmann · 2001: Ernest Roy Davidson e Gábor Somorjai · 2002: John Brauman · 2004: Stephen Lippard · 2006: Marvin Harry Caruthers e Peter Dervan · 2007: Mostafa El-Sayed · 2008: Joanna Fowler e JoAnne Stubbe · 2009: Stephen James Benkovic e Marye Anne Fox
Década de 2010	2010: Jacqueline Barton e Peter John Stang · 2011: Allen Joseph Bard e Frederick Hawthorne · 2012: Judith Klinman, Jerrold Meinwald · 2013: Geraldine Richmond · 2014: Paul Alivisatos

Ciências da Engenharia

Década de 1960	1962: Theodore von Kármán · 1963: Vannevar Bush e John Robinson Pierce · 1964: Charles Stark Draper · 1965: Hugh Latimer Dryden, Clarence Johnson e Warren Lewis · 1966: Claude Shannon · 1967: Edwin Land e Igor Sikorsky · 1968: John Presper Eckert e Nathan M. Newmark · 1969: Jack Kilby
Década de 1970	1970: George Mueller · 1973: Harold Eugene Edgerton e Richard Whitcomb · 1974: Rudolf Kompfner, Ralph Brazelton Peck e Abel Wolman · 1975: Manson Benedict, William Hayward Pickering, Frederick Terman e Wernher von Braun · 1976: Morris Cohen, Peter Carl Goldmark e Erwin Wilhelm Müller · 1979: Emmett Leith, Raymond Mindlin, Robert Noyce, Earl Randall Parker e Simon Ramo
Década de 1980	1982: Edward Heinemann e Donald Katz · 1983: Bill Hewlett, George Low e John George Trump · 1986: Hans Wolfgang Liepmann, Tung-Yen Lin e Bernard Oliver · 1987: Robert Byron Bird, Harry Bolton Seed e Ernst Weber · 1988: Daniel Drucker, Willis Hawkins e George W. Housner · 1989: Harry George Drickamer e Herbert Earl Grier
Década de 1990	1990: Mildred Dresselhaus e Nick Holonyak · 1991: George Heilmeier, Luna Leopold e Guyford Stever · 1992: Calvin Quate e John Roy Whinnery · 1993: Alfred Yi Cho · 1994: Ray Clough · 1995: Hermann Anton Haus · 1996: James Flanagan e Chandra Kumar Patel · 1998: Eli Ruckenstein · 1999: Kenneth N. Stevens
Década de 2000	2000: Yuan-Cheng Fung · 2001: Andreas Acrivos · 2002: Leo Beranek · 2003: John Prausnitz · 2004: Edwin Lightfoot · 2005: Jan Achenbach e Tobin Marks · 2006: Robert Langer · 2007: David Wineland · 2008: Rudolf Kalman · 2009: Amnon Yariv
Década de 2010	2010: Shu Chien · 2011: John Bannister Goodenough · 2014: Thomas Kailath

Ciências Matemáticas, Estatísticas e Computacionais

Década de 1960	1963: Norbert Wiener · 1964: Solomon Lefschetz e Marston Morse · 1965: Oscar Zariski · 1966: John Milnor · 1967: Paul Cohen · 1968: Jerzy Neyman · 1969: William Feller
Década de 1970	1970: Richard Brauer · 1973: John Tukey · 1974: Kurt Gödel · 1975: John Backus, Shiing-Shen Chern e George Dantzig · 1976: Kurt Otto Friedrichs e Hassler Whitney · 1979: Joseph Leo Doob e Donald Knuth
Década de 1980	1982: Marshall Harvey Stone · 1983: Herman Goldstine e Isadore Singer · 1986: Peter Lax e Antoni Zygmund · 1987: Raoul Bott e Michael Freedman · 1988: Ralph Gomory e Joseph Keller · 1989: Samuel Karlin, Saunders Mac Lane e Donald Spencer
Década de 1990	1990: George Carrier, Stephen Kleene e John McCarthy · 1991: Alberto Calderón · 1992: Allen Newell · 1993: Martin Kruskal · 1994: John Cocke · 1995: Louis Nirenberg · 1996: Richard Karp e Stephen Smale · 1997: Shing-Tung Yau · 1998: Cathleen Synge Morawetz · 1999: Felix Browder e Ronald Coifman
Década de 2000	2000: John Griggs Thompson e Karen Uhlenbeck · 2001: Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao e Elias Stein · 2002: James Glimm · 2003: Carl de Boor · 2004: Dennis Sullivan · 2005: Bradley Efron · 2006: Hyman Bass · 2007: Leonard Kleinrock e Andrew Viterbi · 2009: David Mumford
Década de 2010	2010: Richard Alfred Tapia e S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan · 2011: Solomon Wolf Golomb e Barry Mazur · 2014: Alexandre Chorin, David Blackwell (póstuma) · 2015: Michael Artin

Ciências Físicas

Década de 1960	1963: Luis Walter Alvarez · 1964: Julian Schwinger, Harold Clayton Urey e Robert Burns Woodward · 1965: John Bardeen, Peter Debye, Leon Max Lederman e William Walden Rubey · 1966: Jacob Bjerknes, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Henry Eyring, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck e Vladimir Zworykin · 1967: Jesse Beams, Francis Birch, Gregory Breit · Louis Plack Hammett e George Kistiakowsky · 1968: Paul Doughty Bartlett, Herbert Friedman, Lars Onsager e Eugene Paul Wigner · 1969: Herbert Charles Brown e Wolfgang Panofsky
Década de 1970	1970: Robert Henry Dicke, Allan Rex Sandage, John Clarke Slater, John Archibald Wheeler e Saul Winstein · 1973: Carl Djerassi, William Maurice Ewing, Arie Jan Haagen-Smit, Vladimir Haensel, Frederick Seitz e Robert Rathbun Wilson · 1974: Nicolaas Bloembergen, Paul John Flory, William Alfred Fowler, Linus Pauling e Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer · 1975: Hans Bethe, Joseph Hirschfelder, Lewis Hastings Sarett, Edgar Bright Wilson e Chien-Shiung Wu · 1976: Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, Herbert S. Gutowsky, Frederick Rossini, Verner Suomi, Henry Taube e George Eugene Uhlenbeck · 1979: Richard Feynman, Hermann Mark, Edward Mills Purcell, John Sinfelt, Lyman Spitzer e Victor Weisskopf
Década de 1980	1982: Philip Warren Anderson, Yoichiro Nambu, Edward Teller e Charles Hard Townes · 1983: Margaret Burbidge, Maurice Goldhaber, Helmut Landsberg, Walter Munk, Frederick Reines, Bruno Rossi e John Robert Schrieffer · 1986: Solomon Buchsbaum, Horace Crane, Herman Feshbach, Robert Hofstadter e Chen Ning Yang · 1987: Philip Abelson, Walter Elsasser, Paul Christian Lauterbur, George Pake e James Van Allen · 1988: David Allan Bromley, Chu Ching-wu, Walter Kohn, Norman Foster Ramsey, Jack Steinberger · 1989: Arnold Orville Beckman, Eugene Parker, Robert Sharp e Henry Stommel
Década de 1990	1990: Allan Cormack, Edwin Mattison McMillan, Robert Pound e Roger Revelle · 1991: Arthur Schawlow, Ed Stone e Steven Weinberg · 1992: Eugene Shoemaker · 1993: Val Logsdon Fitch e Vera Rubin · 1994: Albert Overhauser e Frank Press · 1995: Hans Georg Dehmelt e Peter Goldreich · 1996: Wallace Smith Broecker · 1997: Marshall Rosenbluth, Martin Schwarzschild e George Wetherill · 1998: Don Lorraine Anderson e John Norris Bahcall · 1999: James Watson Cronin e Leo Kadanoff
Década de 2000	2000: Willis Eugene Lamb, Jeremiah Paul Ostriker e Gilbert Fowler White · 2001: Marvin Cohen, Raymond Davis Jr. e Charles Keeling · 2002: Richard Garwin, William Jason Morgan e Edward Witten · 2003: Brent Dalrymple, Riccardo Giacconi · 2004: Robert N. Clayton · 2005: Ralph Alpher e Lonnie Thompson · 2006: Daniel Kleppner · 2007: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove e Charles Pence Slichter · 2008: Berni Alder e James Gunn · 2009: Yakir Aharonov, Esther Marley Conwell e Warren Washington
Década de 2010	2011: Sidney Drell, Sandra Faber, Sylvester James Gates · 2012: Burton Richter, Sean Solomon · 2014: Shirley Ann Jackson

v d e Medalha Penrose
1927: Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 1928: Jakob Sederholm 1929: Não concedida 1930: Antoine Lacroix 1931: William Morris Davis 1932: Edward Oscar Ulrich 1933: Waldemar Lindgren 1934: Charles Schuchert 1935: Reginald Aldworth Daly 1936: Arthur Philemon Coleman 1937: Não concedida 1938: Andrew Cowper Lawson 1939: William Berryman Scott 1940: Nelson Horatio Darton 1941: Norman Levi Bowen 1942: Charles Kenneth Leith 1943: Não concedida 1944: Bailey Willis 1945: Felix Andries Vening Meinesz 1946: T. Wayland Vaughan 1947: Arthur Louis Day 1948: Hans Cloos 1949: Wendell Phillips Woodring 1950: Morley Evans Wilson 1951: Pentti Eskola 1952: George Gaylord Simpson 1953: Esper S. Larsen, Jr. 1954: Arthur Francis Buddington 1955: Maurice Gignoux 1956: Arthur Holmes 1957: Bruno Sander{ 1958: James Gilluly 1959: Adolph Knopf 1960: Walter Hermann Bucher 1961: Philip Henry Kuenen 1962: Alfred Sherwood Romer 1963: William Walden Rubey 1964: Donnel Foster Hewett 1965: Philip Burke King 1966: Harry H. Hess 1967: Herbert Harold Read 1968: John Tuzo Wilson 1969: Francis Birch 1970: Ralph Alger Bagnold 1971: Marshall Kay 1972: Wilmot H. Bradley 1973: Marion King Hubbert 1974: William Maurice Ewing 1975: Francis John Pettijohn 1976: Preston Cloud 1977: Robert P. Sharp 1978: Robert Minard Garrels 1979: J Harlen Bretz 1980: Hollis Dow Hedberg 1981: John Rodgers 1982: Aaron C. Waters 1983: G. Arthur Cooper 1984: Donald E. White 1985: Rudolf Trümpy 1986: Laurence L. Sloss 1987: Marland P. Billings 1988: Robert S. Dietz 1989: Warren Bell Hamilton 1990: Norman D. Newell 1991: William R. Dickinson 1992: John Frederick Dewey 1993: Alfred G. Fischer 1994: Luna Leopold 1995: John C. Crowell 1996: John R. L. Allen 1997: John D. Bredehoeft 1998: Jack E. Oliver 1999: M. Gordon Wolman 2000: Robert L. Folk 2001: Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu 2002: Walter Alvarez 2003: Peter Vail 2004: W. Gary Ernst 2005: Minze Stuiver 2006: Steve Kesler 2007: Kevin C. A. Burke 2008: George A. Thompson 2009: B. Clark Burchfiel 2010: Eric J. Essene 2011: Paul Felix Hoffman 2012: Raymond Alexander Price 2013: Steven Mitchell Stanley 2014: Susan Kieffer 2015: James Head 2016: John Andrews

Medalha Penrose

1927: Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin
1928: Jakob Sederholm
1929: Não concedida
1930: Antoine Lacroix
1931: William Morris Davis
1932: Edward Oscar Ulrich
1933: Waldemar Lindgren
1934: Charles Schuchert
1935: Reginald Aldworth Daly
1936: Arthur Philemon Coleman
1937: Não concedida
1938: Andrew Cowper Lawson
1939: William Berryman Scott
1940: Nelson Horatio Darton
1941: Norman Levi Bowen
1942: Charles Kenneth Leith
1943: Não concedida
1944: Bailey Willis
1945: Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
1946: T. Wayland Vaughan
1947: Arthur Louis Day
1948: Hans Cloos
1949: Wendell Phillips Woodring
1950: Morley Evans Wilson
1951: Pentti Eskola
1952: George Gaylord Simpson
1953: Esper S. Larsen, Jr.
1954: Arthur Francis Buddington
1955: Maurice Gignoux
1956: Arthur Holmes
1957: Bruno Sander{
1958: James Gilluly
1959: Adolph Knopf
1960: Walter Hermann Bucher
1961: Philip Henry Kuenen
1962: Alfred Sherwood Romer
1963: William Walden Rubey
1964: Donnel Foster Hewett
1965: Philip Burke King
1966: Harry H. Hess
1967: Herbert Harold Read
1968: John Tuzo Wilson
1969: Francis Birch
1970: Ralph Alger Bagnold
1971: Marshall Kay
1972: Wilmot H. Bradley
1973: Marion King Hubbert
1974: William Maurice Ewing
1975: Francis John Pettijohn
1976: Preston Cloud
1977: Robert P. Sharp
1978: Robert Minard Garrels
1979: J Harlen Bretz
1980: Hollis Dow Hedberg
1981: John Rodgers
1982: Aaron C. Waters
1983: G. Arthur Cooper
1984: Donald E. White
1985: Rudolf Trümpy
1986: Laurence L. Sloss
1987: Marland P. Billings
1988: Robert S. Dietz
1989: Warren Bell Hamilton
1990: Norman D. Newell
1991: William R. Dickinson
1992: John Frederick Dewey
1993: Alfred G. Fischer
1994: Luna Leopold
1995: John C. Crowell
1996: John R. L. Allen
1997: John D. Bredehoeft
1998: Jack E. Oliver
1999: M. Gordon Wolman
2000: Robert L. Folk
2001: Kenneth Jinghwa Hsu
2002: Walter Alvarez
2003: Peter Vail
2004: W. Gary Ernst
2005: Minze Stuiver
2006: Steve Kesler
2007: Kevin C. A. Burke
2008: George A. Thompson
2009: B. Clark Burchfiel
2010: Eric J. Essene
2011: Paul Felix Hoffman
2012: Raymond Alexander Price
2013: Steven Mitchell Stanley
2014: Susan Kieffer
2015: James Head
2016: John Andrews

Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society (1824 – 2021)

Século XIX

Década de 1820	1824: Charles Babbage, Johann Franz Encke 1826: John Herschel, James South, Wilhelm Struve 1827: Francis Baily 1828: Thomas Brisbane, James Dunlop, Caroline Herschel 1829: William Pearson, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher
Década de 1830	1830: William Richardson, Johann Franz Encke 1831: Henry Kater, Marie-Charles Damoiseau 1833: George Biddell Airy 1835: Manuel John Johnson 1836: John Herschel 1837: Otto August Rosenberger 1839: John Wrottesley
Década de 1840	1840: Giovanni Plana 1841: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel 1842: Peter Andreas Hansen 1843: Francis Baily 1845: William Henry Smyth 1846: George Biddell Airy 1849: William Lassell
Década de 1850	1850: Otto Wilhelm von Struve 1851: Annibale de Gasparis 1852: Christian August Friedrich Peters 1853: John Russell Hind 1854: Karl Rümker 1855: William Rutter Dawes 1856: Robert Grant 1857: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe 1858: Robert Main 1859: Richard Christopher Carrington
Década de 1860	1860: Peter Andreas Hansen 1861: Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt 1862: Warren De La Rue 1863: Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander 1865: George Phillips Bond 1866: John Couch Adams 1867: William Huggins, William Allen Miller 1868: Urbain Le Verrier 1869: Edward James Stone
Década de 1870	1870: Charles-Eugène Delaunay 1872: Giovanni Schiaparelli 1874: Simon Newcomb 1875: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest 1876: Urbain Le Verrier 1878: Ercole Dembowski 1879: Asaph Hall
Década de 1880	1881: Axel Möller 1882: David Gill 1883: Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1884: Andrew Ainslie Common 1885: William Huggins 1886: Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Pritchard 1887: George William Hill 1888: Arthur Auwers 1889: Maurice Loewy
Década de 1890	1892: George Darwin 1893: Hermann Carl Vogel 1894: Sherburne Wesley Burnham 1895: Isaac Roberts 1896: Seth Carlo Chandler 1897: Edward Barnard 1898: William Frederick Denning 1899: Frank McClean
Medalha de Prata	1824: Karl Rümker, Jean-Louis Pons 1827 William Samuel Stratford, Mark Beaufoy
Medalha de Reconhecimento	1848: George Biddell Airy John Couch Adams Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander George Bishop George Everest John Herschel Peter Andreas Hansen Karl Ludwig Hencke John Russell Hind Urbain Le Verrier John William Lubbock Maximilian von Weiße

Século XX

Década de 1900	1900: Henri Poincaré 1901: Edward Charles Pickering 1902: Jacobus Kapteyn 1903: Hermann Struve 1904: George Ellery Hale 1905: Lewis Boss 1906: William Wallace Campbell 1907: Ernest William Brown 1908: David Gill 1909: Oskar Backlund
Década de 1910	1910: Karl Friedrich Küstner 1911: Philip Herbert Cowell 1912: Arthur Robert Hinks 1913: Henri-Alexandre Deslandres 1914: Max Wolf 1915: Alfred Fowler 1916: John Dreyer 1917: Walter Sydney Adams 1918: John Evershed 1919: Guillaume Bigourdan
Década de 1920	1921: Henry Norris Russell 1922: James Hopwood Jeans 1923: Albert Abraham Michelson 1924: Arthur Stanley Eddington 1925: Frank Dyson 1926: Albert Einstein 1927: Frank Schlesinger 1928: Ralph Allen Sampson 1929: Ejnar Hertzsprung
Década de 1930	1930: John Stanley Plaskett 1931: Willem de Sitter 1932: Robert Grant Aitken 1933: Vesto Melvin Slipher 1934: Harlow Shapley 1935: Edward Arthur Milne 1936: Hisashi Kimura 1937: Harold Jeffreys 1938: William Hammond Wright 1939: Bernard Lyot
Década de 1940	1940: Edwin Powell Hubble 1943: Harold Spencer Jones 1944: Otto Struve 1945: Bengt Edlén 1946: Jan Hendrik Oort 1947: Marcel Minnaert 1948: Bertil Lindblad 1949: Sydney Chapman
Década de 1950	1950: Joel Stebbins 1951: Anton Pannekoek 1952: John Jackson 1953: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar 1954: Walter Baade 1955: Dirk Brouwer 1956: Thomas George Cowling 1957: Albrecht Unsöld 1958: André-Louis Danjon 1959: Raymond Lyttleton
Década de 1960	1960: Viktor Ambartsumian 1961: Herman Zanstra 1962: Bengt Strömgren 1963: Harry Hemley Plaskett 1964: Martin Ryle, William Maurice Ewing 1965: Edward Bullard, Gerald Maurice Clemence 1966: Ira Sprague Bowen, Harold Clayton Urey 1967: Hannes Alfvén, Allan Rex Sandage 1968: Fred Hoyle, Walter Munk 1969: Albert Thomas Price, Martin Schwarzschild
Década de 1970	1970: Horace Welcome Babcock 1971: Frank Press, Richard van der Riet Woolley 1972: Hal Thirlaway, Fritz Zwicky 1973: Francis Birch, Edwin Ernest Salpeter 1974: Ludwig Biermann, Keith Edward Bullen 1975: Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Ernst Öpik 1976: William McCrea, John Ashworth Ratcliffe 1977: David Bates, John Gatenby Bolton 1978: Lyman Spitzer, James Van Allen 1979: Leon Knopoff, Charles Gorrie Wynne
Década de 1980	1980: Chaim Leib Pekeris, Maarten Schmidt 1981: James Freeman Gilbert, Bernard Lovell 1982: Riccardo Giacconi, Harrie Massey 1983: Michael Seaton, Fred Whipple 1984: Keith Runcorn, Jakov Seldovich 1985: Thomas Gold, Stephen Hawking 1986: George Edward Backus, Alexander Dalgarno 1987: Takeshi Nagata, Martin Rees 1988: Don Lorraine Anderson, Cornelis de Jager 1989: Raymond Hide, Ken Pounds
Década de 1990	1990: James Dungey, Bernard Pagel 1991: Vitaly Ginzburg, Gerald Joseph Wasserburg 1992: Dan Peter McKenzie, Eugene Parker 1993: Peter Goldreich, Donald Lynden-Bell 1994: James Gunn, Thomas Reeve Kaiser 1995: John Houghton, Rashid Sunyaev 1996: Kenneth Creer, Vera Rubin 1997: Donald Farley, Donald Edward Osterbrock 1998: Robert Ladislav Parker, James Peebles 1999: Kenneth Budden, Bohdan Paczyński

Século XXI

Década de 2000	2000: Leon Lucy, Robert Hutchison 2001: Hermann Bondi, Henry Rishbeth 2002: Leon Mestel, John Arthur Jacobs 2003: John Norris Bahcall, David Gubbins 2004: Jeremiah Paul Ostriker, Grenville Turner 2005: Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Carole Jordan 2006: Simon White, Stanley William Herbert Cowley 2007: Leonard Culhane, Nigel Weiss 2008: Joseph Silk, Brian Kennett 2009: David Williams, Eric Priest
Década de 2010	2010: Douglas Gough, John Woodhouse 2011: Richard Salisbury Ellis, Eberhard Grün 2012: Andrew Fabian, John Campbell Brown 2013: Roger Blandford, Chris Chapman 2014: Carlos Frenk, John Zarnecki 2015: Michel Mayor 2016: John David Barrow, Philip England 2017: Nicholas Kaiser, Michele Dougherty 2018: James Hough, Robert White 2019: Robert Kennicutt, Margaret Kivelson
Década de 2020	2020: Sandra Faber, Yvonne Elsworth 2021: Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Thorne Lay