Clifford W. Holmes Award
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The Clifford W. Holmes Award is presented annually near Big Bear City, California
at the RTMC Astronomy Expo
to an individual for a "Major Contribution to Popularizing Astronomy
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Established in 1978 by Richard Poremba as the Astronomy for America Award, it was renamed for Clifford W. Holmes, the founder of the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) in 1980.
Recipients of the award are:
Big Bear City, California
Big Bear City is an unincorporated, census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California immediately east of Big Bear Lake. The population was 12,304 at the 2010 census, up from 5,779 at the 2000 census...
at the RTMC Astronomy Expo
RTMC Astronomy Expo
The RTMC Astronomy Expo is one of the major gatherings of amateur astronomers in the United States.Founded by Clifford W. Holmes and the Riverside Astronomical Society, the RTMC Astronomy Expo began in 1969 as the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference at Riverside City College in Riverside,...
to an individual for a "Major Contribution to Popularizing Astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
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Established in 1978 by Richard Poremba as the Astronomy for America Award, it was renamed for Clifford W. Holmes, the founder of the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) in 1980.
Recipients of the award are:
- 1978: Paul Zurakowski
- 1979: Arthur LeonardArthur LeonardArthur Leonard Bamford , known as Arthur Leonard, was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-forward.-Career:...
- 1980: Robert E. CoxRobert E. Cox-Career:Cox worked briefly at Perkin Elmer in 1939. Shortly thereafter he was inducted into the Army Air Corps and served for two years in the South Pacific as a weather specialist. After the war, Cox accepted part-time positions as photographic technician at Harvard Observatory and as staff...
- 1981: Richard Berry (astronomer)
- 1982: Dennis di CiccoDennis di CiccoDennis di Cicco is an American amateur astronomer who lives in New England. He has discovered numerous asteroids from his backyard observatory in Sudbury, Massachusetts . He is also the senior editor of Sky and Telescope magazine, where he has been a member of the editorial staff since 1974...
- 1983: John Dobson (astronomer)John Dobson (astronomer)John Lowry Dobson is a popularizer of amateur astronomy. He is most notable for being the promoter of a design for large, portable, low-cost Newtonian reflecting telescopes that bears his name, the Dobsonian telescope. The design is considered revolutionary since it allowed amateur astronomers to...
- 1984: Jim Jacobson
- 1985: Arthur LeonardArthur LeonardArthur Leonard Bamford , known as Arthur Leonard, was an English professional footballer who played as an inside-forward.-Career:...
- 1986: Bob Schalck
- 1987: Clyde TombaughClyde TombaughClyde William Tombaugh was an American astronomer. Although he is best known for discovering the dwarf planet Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper Belt, Tombaugh also discovered many asteroids; he also called for serious scientific...
- 1988: Kevin Medlock
- 1989: David H. LevyDavid H. LevyDavid H. Levy is a Canadian astronomer and science writer most famous for his co-discovery in 1993 of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994.-Biography:...
- 1990: Dick Buchroeder
- 1991: Rick Shaffer
- 1992: Ashley McDermott
- 1993: John Sanford (astronomer)
- 1994: Don Parker
- 1995: Don Machholz
- 1996: Gil Clark
- 1997: Randall Wilcox
- 1998: Randy Johnson (astronomer)
- 1999: William Seavey
- 2000: Tom CaveTom CaveThomas Cave is a rally driver from Aberdyfi in Wales. He is the son of club rally driver Peter Cave and his ambition is to become the next British champion in the FIA World Rally Championship...
- 2001: Scott W. Roberts
- 2002: Ed KruppEd KruppEdwin C. Krupp is an American astronomer and author. He has been the director of the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles for over thirty years, since first taking over the position in 1974 from his predecessor, William J...
- 2003: Steve Edberg
- 2004: Dean Ketelsen
- 2005: Mike Simmons
- 2006: Al Fink
- 2007: Dave Rodrigues
- 2008: Bob Eklund and Laura Woodard-Eklund
- 2009: Don Nicholson
- 2010: David Crawford; Special awards to Mount Wilson ObservatoryMount Wilson ObservatoryThe Mount Wilson Observatory is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a 5,715 foot peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles...
staff for motivating firefighters during the Station Fire (Dave Jurasevich, Hal and Susan McAlister, Larry Webster)