HONOR

Awarded irregularly since 1887 for contributions to astronomy.

1887	Benjamin Apthorp Gould
1889	Ed Schoenfeld
1891	G. F. J. A. Auwers
1894	Seth Carlo Chandler
1899	David Gill
1913	Jacobus C. Kapteyn
1916	Armin O. Leuschner
1924	Carl Charlier
1929	Willem de Sitter
1936	Ernest W. Brown
1948	Samuel A. Mitchell
1951	Herbert R. Morgan
1955	Chester B. Watts
1957	George Van Biesbroeck
1960	Yusuke Hagihara
1961	Otto Heckmann
1964	Willem J. Luyten
1965	Paul Herget
1966	Wallace J. Eckert
1969	Jurgen Moser
1972	André Deprit
1975	Gerald Maurice Clemence
1979	Charles T. Kowal
1982	Stanton J. Peale
1985	W. Kent Ford, Jr
1986	Robert B. Leighton
1991	Maarten Schmidt
1994	Yasuo Tanaka
1998	Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene M. Shoemaker
2001	David Todd Wilkinson
2004	Vera Rubin
2007	Michael Skrutskie and Roc Cutri

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