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James Craig Watson Medal

HONOR

Named for astronomer James Craig Watson, and 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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