Jackson-Gwilt Medal
Encyclopedia
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:
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...
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:
- 2011 Matt Griffin
- 2010 Craig Mackay
- 2009 Peter Ade
- 2008 Stephen Shectman
- 2006 Keith Taylor
- 2004 Pat Wallace
- 2001 John E. BaldwinJohn E. BaldwinJohn Evan Baldwin FRS has worked at the Cavendish Astrophysics Group since 1954. He played a pivotal role in the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging...
- 1998 Alexander BoksenbergAlexander BoksenbergAlexander Boksenberg FRS CBE is a British scientist. He won the 1999 Hughes Medal of the Royal Society "for his landmark discoveries concerning the nature of active galactic nuclei, the physics of the intergalactic medium and of the interstellar gas in primordial galaxies...
- 1995 Janet Akyüz MatteiJanet Akyüz MatteiJanet Akyüz Mattei was a Turkish American astronomer, educated in both Turkey and the United States and with a U.S. career, who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers from 1973 to 2004....
- 1992 Richard Stephenson
- 1989 Richard E. Hills
- 1986 David MalinDavid MalinDavid Malin is a British-Australian astronomer and photographer.Malin trained as a chemist and originally worked in England as microscopist...
- 1983 Grote ReberGrote ReberGrote Reber was an amateur astronomer and pioneer of radio astronomy. He was instrumental in investigating and extending Karl Jansky's pioneering work, and conducted the first sky survey in the radio frequencies...
- 1980 Roger Griffin
- 1977 Patrick MoorePatrick MooreSir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, CBE, FRS, FRAS is a British amateur astronomer who has attained prominent status in astronomy as a writer, researcher, radio commentator and television presenter of the subject, and who is credited as having done more than any other person to raise the profile of...
- 1974 Geoffrey PerryGeoffrey PerryGeoffrey E. Perry was a physics teacher at Kettering Grammar School, Northamptonshire, England who, together with his colleague Derek Slater, and students, deduced the existence of the previously-secret Plesetsk Cosmodrome in 1966 by analyzing the orbit of the Cosmos 112 satellite.The New York...
- 1971 Alan William James CousinsAlan William James CousinsAlan William James Cousins was a South African astronomer.He was the eldest of four children, and his father Clarence Wilfred Cousins was a senior civil servant who served for a time as Secretary of Labour...
- 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. HargreavesFrederick James HargreavesFrederick James Hargreaves was a British astronomer and optician.He was considered the foremost optician in Britain, and was noted for his skill in mirror making and other optics for astronomical telescopes...
and Percy Mayow Ryves - 1935 Walter Frederick GaleWalter Frederick GaleWalter Frederick Gale was an Australian banker. Gale was born in Paddington, Sydney. He had a strong interest in astronomy and built his first telescope in 1884....
- 1931 Clyde William Tombaugh
- 1928 William Reid and William Herbert SteavensonWilliam Herbert SteavensonWilliam Herbert Steavenson was a British amateur astronomer.He lost the vision in his right eye in a childhood accident...
- 1923 A. Stanley Williams and William Sadler FranksWilliam Sadler FranksWilliam Sadler Franks was a British astronomer.He published a catalogue of the colors of 3890 stars.In 1910 he was hired by F. J. Hanbury to work as an observer at Hanbury's private Brockhurst Observatory at East Grinstead in Sussex...
- 1918 T. E. R. PhillipsT. E. R. PhillipsRev. Theodore Evelyn Reece Phillips , universally known as T. E. R. Phillips, -was an English astronomer....
- 1913 Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin
- 1909 Philibert Jacques MelottePhilibert Jacques MelottePhilibert Jacques Melotte was a British astronomer whose parents immigrated from Belgium.In 1908 he discovered a moon of Jupiter, today known as Pasiphaë. It was simply designated "Jupiter VIII" and was not given its present name until 1975.The asteroid 676 Melitta, the only one he discovered, is...
- 1905 John TebbuttJohn TebbuttJohn Tebbutt was an Australian astronomer, credited with discovering the "Great Comet of 1861" .-Early life:...
- 1902 Thomas David AndersonThomas David AndersonThomas David Anderson was a Scottish amateur astronomer.He was born in Edinburgh. When he was five years old, his father showed him Comet Donati, and his nanny also gave him an interest in astronomy....
- 1897 Lewis Swift