Herschel Medalists

• 1974 John Paul Wild
  John Paul Wild
  Dr John Paul Wild AC CBE MA ScD FRS FTSE FAA was a British-born Australian radio astronomer and national science leader who served as chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 1978-1985.Paul Wild was born in Sheffield, England in 1923...
  
  
• 1977 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson
  Robert Woodrow Wilson
  For the American President, see Woodrow Wilson.Robert Woodrow Wilson is an American astronomer, 1978 Nobel laureate in physics, who with Arno Allan Penzias discovered in 1964 the cosmic microwave background radiation...
  
  
• 1980 Gérard de Vaucouleurs
  Gérard de Vaucouleurs
  -External links:* * http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/normal_galaxies.html-Other resources:...
  
  
• 1983 William W. Morgan
• 1986 Albert Boggess and Robert Wilson
  Robert Wilson (astronomer)
  Sir Robert Wilson FRS, CBE, Kt, was the son of a Durham miner. He studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh, where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra...
  
  
• 1989 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS , is a British astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student she discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish. She was president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and was interim president...
  
  
• 1992 Andrew Lyne
  Andrew Lyne
  Andrew G. Lyne FRS is a British physicist. Lyne is Langworthy Professor of Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, as well as an ex-director of the Jodrell Bank Observatory. Despite retiring in 2007 he remains an active researcher within the Jodrell Bank Pulsar...
  
  
• 1995 George Isaak
  George Isaak
  George Richard Isaak was a Polish Australian physicist, an important figure in the development of helio- and asteroseismology....
  
  
• 1998 Gerry Neugebauer
• 2001 Patrick Thaddeus
• 2004 Keith Horne
  Keith Horne
  Keith Weller Horne is a professional golfer from South Africa.Horne was born in Durban and had a successful amateur career. In 1993, Horne won a Silver Medal at the World Games in Spain...
  
  
• 2006 Govind Swarup
  Govind Swarup
  Professor Govind Swarup, of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , is an internationally renowned radio astronomer and one of the pioneers of radio astronomy...
  
  
• 2008 Max Pettini
  Max Pettini
  Max Pettini is a professor of observational astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.Pettini was born in Rome but studied for a BSc in physics then a PhD in astrophysics at University College London...