The Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy.

See also: Bruce Medalists

Past laureates are:

• 1898, Simon Newcomb
• 1899, Arthur Auwers
• 1900, David Gill
• 1902, Giovanni V. Schiaparelli
• 1904, William Huggins
• 1906, Hermann Carl Vogel
• 1908, Edward C. Pickering
• 1909, George William Hill
• 1911, Henri Poincaré
• 1913, Jacobus C. Kapteyn
• 1914, Oskar Backlund
• 1915, William Wallace Campbell
• 1916, George Ellery Hale
• 1917, Edward Emerson Barnard
• 1920, Ernest W. Brown
• 1921, Henri A. Deslandres
• 1922, Frank W. Dyson
• 1923, Benjamin Baillaud
• 1924, Arthur Stanley Eddington
• 1925, Henry Norris Russell
• 1926, Robert G. Aitken
• 1927, Herbert Hall Turner
• 1928, Walter S. Adams
• 1929, Frank Schlesinger
• 1930, Max Wolf
• 1931, Willem de Sitter
• 1932, John S. Plaskett
• 1933, Carl V.L. Charlier
• 1934, Alfred Fowler
• 1935, Vesto M. Slipher
• 1936, Armin O. Leuschner
• 1937, Ejnar Hertzsprung
• 1938, Edwin P. Hubble
• 1939, Harlow Shapley
• 1940, Frederick H. Seares
• 1941, Joel Stebbins
• 1942, Jan H. Oort
• 1945, E. Arthur Milne
• 1946, Paul Merrill
• 1947, Bernard Lyot
• 1948, Otto Struve
• 1949, Harold Spencer Jones
• 1950, Alfred H. Joy
• 1951, Marcel Minnaert
• 1952, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1953, Harold D. Babcock
• 1954, Bertil Lindblad
• 1955, Walter Baade
• 1956, Albrecht Unsöld
• 1957, Ira S. Bowen
• 1958, William Wilson Morgan
• 1959, Bengt Strömgren
• 1960, Viktor A. Ambartsumian
• 1961, Rudolph Minkowski
• 1962, Grote Reber
• 1963, Seth Barnes Nicholson
• 1964, Otto Heckmann
• 1965, Martin Schwarzschild
• 1966, Dirk Brouwer
• 1967, Ludwig Biermann
• 1968, Willem J. Luyten
• 1969, Horace W. Babcock
• 1970, Fred Hoyle
• 1971, Jesse Greenstein
• 1972, Iosif S. Shklovskii
• 1973, Lyman Spitzer, Jr.
• 1974, Martin Ryle
• 1975, Allan R. Sandage
• 1976, Ernst J. Öpik
• 1977, Bart J. Bok
• 1978, Hendrik C. van de Hulst
• 1979, William A. Fowler
• 1980, George Herbig
• 1981, Riccardo Giacconi
• 1982, E. Margaret Burbidge
• 1983, Yakov B. Zel'dovich
• 1984, Olin C. Wilson
• 1985, Thomas G. Cowling
• 1986, Fred L. Whipple
• 1987, Edwin E. Salpeter
• 1988, John G. Bolton
• 1989, Adriaan Blaauw
• 1990, Charlotte E. Moore Sitterly
• 1991, Donald E. Osterbrock
• 1992, Maarten Schmidt
• 1993, Martin Rees
• 1994, Wallace Sargent
• 1995, P. James E. Peebles
• 1996, Albert E. Whitford
• 1997, Eugene Parker
• 1998, Donald Lynden-Bell
• 1999, Geoffrey R. Burbidge
• 2000, Rashid A. Sunyaev
• 2001, Hans A. Bethe
• 2002, Bohdan Paczynski
• 2003, Vera C. Rubin
• 2004, Chushiro Hayashi
• 2005, Robert Kraft
• 2006, Frank J. Low

See also

• Prizes named after people

Astronomy prizes

Bruce Medal | Medalla Bruce | Médaille Bruce | Medaglia Bruce | Bruce Medal | ブルース・メダル | Bruce Medal