| 1824 | 
Charles Babbage, Johann Franz Encke
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| 1826 | 
John Herschel, James South, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve
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| 1827 | 
Francis Baily
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| 1828 | 
Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, James Dunlop, Caroline Herschel
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| 1829 | 
William Pearson, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher
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| 1830 | 
William Richardson, Johann Franz Encke
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| 1831 | 
Henry Kater, Baron Marie-Charles Damoiseau
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| 1833 | 
George Biddell Airy
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| 1835 | 
Manuel J. Johnson
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| 1836 | 
John Herschel
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| 1837 | 
Otto A. Rosenberger
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| 1839 | 
John Wrottesley
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| 1840 | 
Giovanni Plana
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| 1841 | 
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
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| 1842 | 
Peter Andreas Hansen
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| 1843 | 
Francis Baily
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| 1845 | 
William Henry Smyth
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| 1846 | 
George Biddell Airy
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| 1849 | 
William Lassell
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| 1850 | 
Otto Wilhelm Struve
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| 1851 | 
Annibale de Gasparis
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| 1852 | 
Christian August Friedrich Peters
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| 1853 | 
John Russell Hind
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| 1854 | 
Charles Rümker
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| 1855 | 
William Rutter Dawes
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| 1856 | 
Robert Grant
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| 1857 | 
Heinrich Schwabe
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| 1858 | 
Robert Main
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| 1859 | 
Richard Christopher Carrington
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| 1860 | 
Peter Andreas Hansen
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| 1861 | 
Hermann Goldschmidt
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| 1862 | 
Warren de la Rue
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| 1863 | 
Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
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| 1865 | 
George Phillips Bond
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| 1866 | 
John Couch Adams
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| 1867 | 
William Huggins, William Allen Miller
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| 1868 | 
Urbain Le Verrier
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| 1869 | 
Edward James Stone
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| 1870 | 
Charles Delaunay
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| 1872 | 
Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli
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| 1874 | 
Simon Newcomb
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| 1875 | 
Heinrich d'Arrest
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| 1876 | 
Urbain Le Verrier
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| 1878 | 
Baron Ercole Dembowski
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| 1879 | 
Asaph Hall
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| 1881 | 
Axel Möller
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| 1882 | 
David Gill
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| 1883 | 
Benjamin Apthorp Gould
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| 1884 | 
Andrew Ainslie Common
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| 1885 | 
William Huggins
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| 1886 | 
Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Pritchard
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| 1887 | 
George William Hill
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| 1888 | 
Arthur Auwers
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| 1889 | 
Maurice Loewy
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| 1892 | 
George Darwin
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| 1893 | 
Hermann Carl Vogel
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| 1894 | 
S. W. Burnham
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| 1895 | 
Isaac Roberts
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| 1896 | 
Seth Carlo Chandler
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| 1897 | 
Edward Barnard
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| 1898 | 
William Frederick Denning
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| 1899 | 
Frank McClean
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| 1900 | 
Henri Poincaré
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| 1901 | 
Edward Charles Pickering
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| 1902 | 
Jacobus C. Kapteyn
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| 1903 | 
Hermann Struve
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| 1904 | 
George Ellery Hale
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| 1905 | 
Lewis Boss
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| 1906 | 
William W. Campbell
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| 1907 | 
Ernest W. Brown
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| 1908 | 
David Gill
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| 1909 | 
Oskar Backlund
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| 1910 | 
Friedrich Küstner
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| 1911 | 
Philip Herbert Cowell
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| 1912 | 
Arthur Robert Hinks
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| 1913 | 
Henri Alexandre Deslandres
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| 1914 | 
Max Wolf
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| 1915 | 
Alfred Fowler
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| 1916 | 
John L. E. Dreyer
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| 1917 | 
Walter S. Adams
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| 1918 | 
John Evershed
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| 1919 | 
Guillaume Bigourdan
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| 1921 | 
Henry Norris Russell
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| 1922 | 
James H. Jeans
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| 1923 | 
Albert A. Michelson
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| 1924 | 
Arthur Eddington
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| 1925 | 
Frank W. Dyson
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| 1926 | 
Albert Einstein
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| 1927 | 
Frank Schlesinger
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| 1928 | 
Ralph Allen Sampson
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| 1929 | 
Ejnar Hertzsprung
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| 1930 | 
John S. Plaskett
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| 1931 | 
Willem de Sitter
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| 1932 | 
Robert Grant Aitken
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| 1933 | 
V. M. Slipher
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| 1934 | 
Harlow Shapley
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| 1935 | 
E. Arthur Milne
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| 1936 | 
Hisashi Kimura
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| 1937 | 
Harold Jeffreys
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| 1938 | 
William Hammond Wright
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| 1939 | 
Bernard Lyot
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| 1940 | 
Edwin Hubble
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| 1943 | 
Harold Spencer Jones
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| 1944 | 
Otto Struve
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| 1945 | 
Bengt Edlen
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| 1946 | 
Jan Hendrik Oort
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| 1947 | 
Marcel Minnaert
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| 1948 | 
Bertil Lindblad
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| 1949 | 
Sydney Chapman
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| 1950 | 
Joel Stebbins
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| 1951 | 
Anton Pannekoek
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| 1952 | 
John Jackson
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| 1953 | 
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
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| 1954 | 
Walter Baade
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| 1955 | 
Dirk Brouwer
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| 1956 | 
Thomas George Cowling
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| 1957 | 
Albrecht Unsöld
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| 1958 | 
André Danjon
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| 1959 | 
Raymond Arthur Lyttleton
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| 1960 | 
Viktor Ambartsumian
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| 1961 | 
Herman Zanstra
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| 1962 | 
Bengt Strömgren
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| 1963 | 
H. H. Plaskett
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| 1964 | 
Martin Ryle, Maurice Ewing
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| 1965 | 
Edward Bullard, G. M. Clemence
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| 1966 | 
Ira S. Bowen, Harold C. Urey
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| 1967 | 
Hannes Alfvén, Allan R. Sandage
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| 1968 | 
Fred Hoyle, Walter Munk
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| 1969 | 
A. T. Price, Martin Schwarzschild
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| 1970 | 
Horace W. Babcock
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| 1971 | 
F. Press, Sir Richard van der Riet Woolley
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| 1972 | 
H. I. S. Thirlaway, Fritz Zwicky
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| 1973 | 
F. Birch, Edwin E. Salpeter
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| 1974 | 
Ludwig Biermann, K. E. Bullen
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| 1975 | 
Jesse L. Greenstein, Ernst J. Öpik
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| 1976 | 
William H. McCrea, J. A. Ratcliffe
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| 1977 | 
David Bates, John G. Bolton
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| 1978 | 
Lyman Spitzer, Jr., James Van Allen
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| 1979 | 
L. Knopoff, C. G. Wynne
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| 1980 | 
C. L. Pekeris, Maarten Schmidt
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| 1981 | 
J. F. Gilbert, Bernard Lovell
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| 1982 | 
Riccardo Giacconi, Harrie Massey
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| 1983 | 
Michael Seaton, Fred Whipple
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| 1984 | 
S. K. Runcorn, Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich
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| 1985 | 
Thomas Gold, Stephen Hawking
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| 1986 | 
G. E. Backus, A. Dalgarno
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| 1987 | 
Takesi Nagata, Martin Rees
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| 1988 | 
D. L. Anderson, C. de Jager
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| 1989 | 
Raymond Hide, K. A. Pounds
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| 1990 | 
J. W. Dungey, B. E. J. Pagel
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| 1991 | 
Vitaly Ginzburg, G. J. Wasserburg
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| 1992 | 
D. P. McKenzie, Eugene Parker
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| 1993 | 
Peter Goldreich, Donald Lynden-Bell
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| 1994 | 
James E. Gunn, T. R. Kaiser
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| 1995 | 
J. Houghton, Rashid Sunyaev
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| 1996 | 
K. Creer, Vera Rubin
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| 1997 | 
D. Farley, Donald E. Osterbrock
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| 1998 | 
R. L. Parker, P. James E. Peebles
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| 1999 | 
K. Budden, Bohdan Paczynski
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| 2000 | 
L. Lucy, R. Hutchinson
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| 2001 | 
Hermann Bondi, H. Rishbeth
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| 2002 | 
Leon Mestel, J. A. Jacobs
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| 2003 | 
John Bahcall, D. Gubbins
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| 2004 | 
Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Grenville Turner
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| 2005 | 
E. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Carole Jordan
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| 2006 | 
S. White, S. W. H. Cowley | 
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