The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research.

Past Russell Lecturers are:

• 1946, Henry Norris Russell
• 1947, Walter Sydney Adams
• 1948, No award
• 1949, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1950, Harlow Shapley
• 1951, Jan Oort
• 1952, No award
• 1953, Enrico Fermi
• 1953, Lyman Spitzer
• 1954, No award
• 1955, Paul Merrill
• 1956, Joel Stebbins
• 1957, Otto Struve
• 1958, Walter Baade
• 1959, Gerard P. Kuiper
• 1960, Martin Schwarzschild
• 1961, William Wilson Morgan
• 1962, Grote Reber
• 1963, William Alfred Fowler
• 1964, Ira S. Bowen
• 1965, Bengt Strömgren
• 1966, Richard Tousey
• 1967, Otto Neugebauer
• 1968, John G. Bolton
• 1969, Eugene Parker
• 1970, Jesse L. Greenstein
• 1971, Fred Hoyle
• 1972, Allan Sandage
• 1973, Leo Goldberg
• 1974, Edwin Salpeter
• 1975, George Herbig
• 1976, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• 1977, Olin C. Wilson
• 1978, Maarten Schmidt
• 1979, Peter Goldreich
• 1980, Jeremiah P. Ostriker
• 1981, Riccardo Giacconi
• 1982, Bart Bok
• 1983, Herbert Friedman
• 1984, E. Margaret Burbidge
• 1985, Olin J. Eggen
• 1986, Albert Whitford
• 1987, Fred L. Whipple
• 1988, Gerard de Vaucouleurs
• 1989, Icko Iben, Jr.
• 1990, Sidney van den Bergh
• 1991, Donald Osterbrock
• 1992, Lawrence Aller
• 1993, James Peebles
• 1994, Vera Rubin
• 1995, Robert Kraft
• 1996, Gerry Neugebauer
• 1997, Alastair Cameron
• 1998, Charles Townes
• 1999, John Bahcall
• 2000, Donald Lynden-Bell
• 2001, Wallace Sargent
• 2002, George Wallerstein
• 2003, George Wetherill
• 2004, Martin Rees
• 2005, James E. Gunn
• 2006, Bohdan Paczyński

Astronomy prizes | Henry Norris Russell Lectureship