Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Memorial

Hermann Bondi

11/01/1919 – 09/10/2005

85 years

Austrian-British mathematician and cosmologist

Memorial

Kenneth Budden

06/23/1915 – 09/04/2005

90 years

United Kingdom

Memorial

Fred Lawrence Whipple

11/05/1906 – 08/30/2004

97 years

American astronomer

Memorial

Horace W. Babcock

09/13/1912 – 08/29/2003

90 years

American astronomer

Santa Barbara

Memorial

Fred Hoyle

06/24/1915 – 08/20/2001

86 years

British astronomer

Bournemouth

Memorial

Charles Gorrie Wynne

05/18/1911 – 10/01/1999

88 years

United Kingdom

Memorial

Martin Schwarzschild

05/31/1912 – 04/10/1997

84 years

Langhorne

Memorial

Albrecht Unsöld

04/20/1905 – 09/23/1995

90 years

Kiel

Memorial

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

10/19/1910 – 08/21/1995

84 years

Indian-American astrophysicist

Chicago

Memorial

Raymond Lyttleton

05/07/1911 – 05/16/1995

84 years

United Kingdom

Memorial

Hannes Alfvén

05/30/1908 – 04/02/1995

86 years

Swedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics

Danderyd

Memorial

David Bates

11/18/1916 – 01/05/1994

77 years

Belfast

Memorial

Chaim L. Pekeris

06/15/1908 – 02/24/1993

84 years

Rehovot

Memorial

Takeshi Nagata

06/24/1913 – 06/03/1991

77 years

Tokyo

Memorial

Harold Jeffreys

04/22/1891 – 03/18/1989

97 years

Memorial

Bengt Strömgren

01/21/1908 – 07/04/1987

79 years

Copenhagen

Memorial

Richard van der Riet Woolley

04/24/1906 – 12/24/1986

80 years

Somerset West

Memorial

Ludwig Biermann

03/13/1907 – 01/12/1986

78 years

München

Memorial

Martin Ryle

09/27/1918 – 10/14/1984

66 years

Memorial

Harrie Massey

05/16/1908 – 11/27/1983

75 years

Memorial

Edward C. Bullard

09/21/1907 – 04/03/1980

72 years

La Jolla