HONOR

Awarded since 1839 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for "contributions to the fields of heat and light, broadly interpreted."

1839	Robert Hare
1862	John Ericsson
1865	Daniel Treadwell
1866	Alvan Clark
1869	George Henry Corliss
1871	Joseph Harrison, Jr.
1873	Lewis Morris Rutherford
1875	John William Draper
1880	J. Willard Gibbs
1883	Henry Augustus Rowland
1886	Samuel P. Langley
1888	Albert A. Michelson
1891	Edward Charles Pickering
1895	Thomas Edison
1898	James E. Keeler
1899	Charles F. Brush
1900	Carl Barus
1901	Elihu Thomson
1902	George Ellery Hale
1905	Ernest Fox Nichols
1907	Edward G. Acheson
1909	Robert W. Wood
1910	Charles Gordon Curtis
1911	James Mason Crafts
1912	Frederic Eugene Ives
1913	Joel Stebbins
1914	William D. Coolidge
1915	Charles Greeley Abbot
1917	Percy Williams Bridgman
1918	Theodore Lyman
1920	Irving Langmuir
1925	Henry Norris Russell
1926	Arthur H. Compton
1928	Edward Leamington Nichols
1930	John S. Plaskett
1931	Karl T. Compton
1933	Harlow Shapley
1937	William W. Coblentz
1939	George Russell Harrison
1941	Vladimir Zworykin
1943	Charles Edward Mees
1945	Edwin H. Land
1947	E. Newton Harvey
1949	Ira S. Bowen
1951	Herbert E. Ives
1953	Enrico Fermi
1953	Lars Onsager
1953	Willis Lamb
1955	James Franck
1957	Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
1959	George Wald
1961	Charles H. Townes
1963	Hans Bethe
1965	Samuel C. Collins
1965	William D. McElroy
1967	Cornelis B. Van Niel
1967	Robert H. Dicke
1968	Maarten Schmidt
1971	(large shared group, for long-baseline interferometry)
1973	E. Bright Wilson
1976	Bruno Rossi
1980	Chen Ning Yang
1980	Gregorio Weber
1980	Robert L. Mills
1985	Hans G. Dehmelt, Martin Deutsch, Norman F. Ramsey, and Vernon W. Hughes
1986	Frank J. Low, Gerry Neugebauer, and Robert B. Leighton
1992	James R. Norris, Joseph J. Katz, and George Feher
1996	John C. Mather
2008	Sidney D. Drell, Sam Nunn, William J. Perry, and George Shultz

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