The Eddington Medal, named after Sir Arthur Eddington, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.

Recipients

• 1953 Georges Lemaître
• 1955 ^* Hendrik C. van de Hulst
• 1958 ^* Horace W. Babcock
• 1959 ^* James Stanley Hey
• 1960 ^* Robert d'Escourt Atkinson
• 1961 ^* Hans Albrecht Bethe
• 1962 ^* André Lallemand
• 1963 ^* J. A. R. Sandage, Martin Schwarzschild
• 1964 ^* Herbert Friedman, Richard Tousey
• 1965 ^* Robert Vivian Pound, Glen A. Rebka
• 1966 ^* Rupert Wildt
• 1967 ^* Robert F. Christy
• 1968 ^* Robert Hanbury Brown, Richard Q. Twiss
• 1969 ^* Antony Hewish
• 1970 ^* Chushiro Hayashi
• 1971 ^* Desmond George King-Hele
• 1972 ^* Paul Ledoux
• 1975 ^* Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
• 1978 ^* William A. Fowler
• 1981 ^* Philip James Edwin Peebles
• 1984 ^* Donald Lynden-Bell
• 1987 ^* Bohdan Paczynski
• 1990 ^* Icko Iben
• 1993 ^* Leon Mestel
• 1996 Alan Guth
• 1999 Roger Blandford
• 2002 Douglas O. Gough
• 2005 Rudolph Kippenhahn

Astronomy prizes

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