Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research. The American Astronomical Society (AAS sometimes pronounced "double-A-S" is a US society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals

Past Russell Lecturers are:^[1]

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 Paczynski
2007, David L. The year 1946 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Henry Norris Russell ( October 25, 1877 &ndash February 18, 1957) was an American Astronomer who along with Ejnar The year 1947 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Walter Sydney Adams ( December 20 1876 &ndash May 11 1956) was an American Astronomer. The year 1948 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below The year 1949 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Padma Vibhushan Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, FRS ( Tamil: சுப்பிரமணியன் சந்திரசேகர் English ˌtʃʌndrəˈʃeɪkɑr( See also Other events of 1950 Harlow Shapley ( November 2 1885 &ndash October 20 1972) was an American Astronomer. The year 1951 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Jan Hendrik Oort ( April 28, 1900 &ndash November 5, 1992) was a Dutch Astronomer. The year 1952 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below The year 1953 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below The year 1953 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Lyman Strong Spitzer Jr ( June 26, 1914 &ndash March 31, 1997) was an American theoretical physicist. The year 1954 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below The year 1955 in Science and Technology included many events some of which are listed below Paul Willard Merrill ( August 15 1887 &ndash July 19 1961) was an American Astronomer whose specialty was Spectroscopy. The year 1956 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Joel Stebbins ( July 30 1878 &ndash March 16 1966) was an American Astronomer who pioneered Photoelectric The year 1957 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Not to be confused with his grandfather Otto Wilhelm von Struve (1819 &ndash 1905 ---- Otto Struve ( August 12 1897 – The year 1958 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Biography Along with Fritz Zwicky, he proposed that Supernovae could create Neutron stars He took advantage of wartime blackout conditions during The year 1959 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Gerard Peter Kuiper ( born Gerrit Pieter Kuiper ( ( December 7 1905, Harenkarspel ( Tuitjenhorn) Netherlands &ndash The year 1960 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Martin Schwarzschild ( May 31 1912 &ndash April 10 1997) was a German American Astronomer. The year 1961 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below William Wilson Morgan ( January 3 1906 &ndash June 21 1994) was an American Astronomer. The year 1962 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Grote Reber ( December 22, 1911 &ndash December 20, 2002) was an amateur astronomer and pioneer of Radio astronomy. The year 1963 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below William Alfred "Willie" Fowler ( August 9, 1911 &ndash March 14, 1995) was an American Astrophysicist. The year 1964 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Ira Sprague Bowen ( December 21, 1898 &ndash February 6, 1973) was an American Astronomer. The year 1965 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Bengt Georg Daniel Strömgren ( January 21 1908 &ndash July 4 1987) was a Danish astronomer and astrophysicist The year 1966 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Richard Tousey ( May 18 1908 &ndash April 15 1997) was an American Astronomer. The year 1967 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Otto Eduard Neugebauer ( May 26 1899 &ndash February 19 1990) was an Austrian - American Mathematician and The year 1968 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below This article is on the astronomer John Bolton For other people named "John Bolton" see John Bolton (disambiguation. The year 1969 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Eugene N Parker (born 10 June, 1927) is an American solar Astrophysicist who received his B The year 1970 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Jesse Leonard Greenstein ( October 15 1909 &ndash October 21 2002) was an American Astronomer. The year 1971 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Sir Fred Hoyle FRS ( 24 June, 1915 &ndash 20 August, 2001) was an English Astronomer primarily The year 1972 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Allan Rex Sandage (born June 18 1926 in Iowa City Iowa) is an American Astronomer. The year 1973 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below The year 1974 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Edwin Ernest Salpeter (born December 3 1924) is an Austrian-Australian-American Astrophysicist. The year 1975 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below George Howard Herbig (born January 2 1920) is an Astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. The year 1976 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ( May 10 1900 &ndash December 7 1979) was an English - American Astronomer who in 1925 The year 1977 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Olin Chaddock Wilson ( January 13, 1909 &ndash July 13, 1994) was an American Astronomer best known for his work as a stellar The year 1978 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Maarten Schmidt (born December 28 1929) is a Dutch Astronomer who measured the distances of astronomical objects called Quasars The year 1979 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Peter Goldreich (born July 14, 1939) is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on planetary rings Helioseismology and Neutron The year 1980 in Science and Technology involved some significant events listed below Jeremiah (Jerry Paul Ostriker (born 1937) is a distinguished Astrophysicist at Princeton University. The year 1981 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below Riccardo Giacconi (born October 6, 1931) is an Italian-born American Nobel Prize -winning Astrophysicist. The year 1982 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below Bart Jan Bok ( Hoorn, April 28 1906 &ndash Tucson, August 5 1983) was a Dutch - American Astronomer The year 1983 in Science and Technology involved many significant events as listed below Herbert Friedman ( June 21, 1916 – 9 September 2000) was an American pioneer in the application of Sounding rockets to The year 1984 in Science and Technology involved some significant events Margaret Burbidge FRS (born August 12, 1919 in Davenport) is an English Astrophysicist, noted for original research and holding many The year 1985 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below Olin Jeuck Eggen ( July 9 1919 &ndash October 2 1998) was an American Astronomer. The year 1986 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Albert Edward Whitford ( October 22, 1905 &ndash March 28, 2002) was an American Astronomer. The year 1987 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Fred Lawrence Whipple ( November 5, 1906 – August 30, 2004) was an American Astronomer. The year 1988 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs ( April 25, 1918 &ndash October 7, 1995) was a French Astronomer. The year 1989 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Icko Iben Jr is an American Astronomer and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The year 1990 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Sidney van den Bergh (born 20 May 1929, Wassenaar) is a Canadian astronomer The year 1991 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Donald Edward Osterbrock ( July 13, 1924 - January 11, 2007) was an American Astronomer, best known for his work on The year 1992 in Science and Technology involved many significant events some listed below Lawrence Hugh Aller ( September 24 1913 &ndash March 16 2003) was an American Astronomer. The year 1993 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25 1935) is a Canadian - American Physicist and theoretical cosmologist. The year 1994 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below Vera (Cooper Rubin (born 23 July 1928) is an Astronomer who has done pioneering work on Galaxy rotation rates The year 1995 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below Robert Paul "Bob" Kraft (born June 16, 1927) is an American Astronomer. The year 1996 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1997 in Science and Technology involved many significant events listed below The year 1998 in Science and Technology involved many events some of which are included below Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) is an American Nobel Prize-winning Physicist and educator The year 1999 in Science and Technology involved some significant events John Norris Bahcall ( December 30 1934 &ndash August 17 2005) was an American astrophysicist. The year 2000 in Science and Technology involved some significant events Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS (born April 5 1935 in Dover) is an English Astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies The year 2001 in Science and Technology involved many events some of which are included below Wallace Leslie William Sargent (born 1935 is an American Astronomer. The year 2002 in Science and Technology involved some significant events George Wallerstein is an American astronomer known for researching the chemical composition of stellar atmospheres The year 2003 in Science and Technology involved some significant events George Wetherill ( August 12, 1925 -- July 19, 2006) was the Director Emeritus Department of Terrestrial Magnetism Carnegie Institution The year 2004 in Science and Technology involved some significant events Martin John Rees Baron Rees of Ludlow, OM, PRS (born 23 June 1942 in York) is an English cosmologist The year 2005 in Science and Technology involved some significant events James Edward Gunn (born 1938 is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. The year 2006 in Science and Technology involved some significant events Bohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski ( 8 February 1940 - 19 April 2007) was a Polish Astronomer, a leading scientist The year 2007 in science and Technology involves many significant events Lambert
2008, Rashid Sunyaev

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