1824 Charles Babbage, Johann Franz Encke  1826 John Herschel, James South, Wilhelm Struve  1827 Francis Baily  1828 Thomas Brisbane, James Dunlop, Caroline Herschel  1829 William Pearson, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher  1830 William Richardson, Johann Franz Encke  1831 Henry Kater, Marie-Charles Damoiseau  1833 George Biddell Airy  1835 Manuel John Johnson  1836 John Herschel  1837 Otto August Rosenberger  1839 John Wrottesley  1840 Giovanni Plana  1841 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel  1842 Peter Andreas Hansen  1843 Francis Baily  1845 Captain William Henry Smyth  1846 George Biddell Airy  1849 William Lassell  1850 Otto Wilhelm von Struve  1851 Annibale de Gasparis  1852 Christian August Friedrich Peters  1853 John Russell Hind  1854 Charles Rümker  1855 William Rutter Dawes  1856 Robert Grant  1857 Samuel Heinrich Schwabe  1858 Robert Main  1859 Richard Christopher Carrington  1860 Peter Andreas Hansen  1861 Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt  1862 Warren De La Rue  1863 Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander  1865 George Phillips Bond  1866 John Couch Adams  1867 William Huggins, William Allen Miller  1868 Urbain Le Verrier  1869 Edward James Stone  1870 Charles-Eugène Delaunay  1872 Giovanni Schiaparelli  1874 Simon Newcomb  1875 Heinrich Louis d'Arrest  1876 Urbain Le Verrier  1878 Ercole Dembowski  1879 Asaph Hall  1881 Axel Möller  1882 David Gill  1883 Benjamin Apthorp Gould  1884 Andrew Ainslie Common  1885 William Huggins  1886 Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Pritchard  1887 George William Hill  1888 Arthur Auwers  1889 Maurice Loewy  1892 George Darwin  1893 Hermann Carl Vogel  1894 Sherburne Wesley Burnham  1895 Isaac Roberts  1896 Seth Carlo Chandler  1897 Edward Barnard  1898 William Frederick Denning  1899 Frank McClean  1900 Henri Poincaré  1901 Edward Charles Pickering  1902 Jacobus Kapteyn  1903 Hermann Struve  1904 George Ellery Hale  1905 Lewis Boss  1906 William Wallace Campbell  1907 Ernest William Brown  1908 David Gill  1909 Oskar Backlund  1910 Karl Friedrich Küstner  1911 Philip Herbert Cowell  1912 Arthur Robert Hinks  1913 Henri-Alexandre Deslandres  1914 Max Wolf  1915 Alfred Fowler  1916 John Dreyer  1917 Walter Sydney Adams  1918 John Evershed  1919 Guillaume Bigourdan  1921 Henry Norris Russell  1922 James Hopwood Jeans  1923 Albert Abraham Michelson  1924 Arthur Stanley Eddington  1925 Frank Dyson  1926 Albert Einstein  1927 Frank Schlesinger  1928 Ralph Allen Sampson  1929 Ejnar Hertzsprung  1930 John Stanley Plaskett  1931 Willem de Sitter  1932 Robert Grant Aitken  1933 Vesto Melvin Slipher  1934 Harlow Shapley  1935 Edward Arthur Milne  1936 Hisashi Kimura  1937 Harold Jeffreys  1938 William Hammond Wright  1939 Bernard Lyot  1940 Edwin Powell Hubble  1943 Harold Spencer Jones  1944 Otto Struve  1945 Bengt Edlén  1946 Jan Hendrik Oort  1947 Marcel Minnaert  1948 Bertil Lindblad  1949 Sydney Chapman  1950 Joel Stebbins  1951 Anton Pannekoek  1952 John Jackson  1953 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar  1954 Walter Baade  1955 Dirk Brouwer  1956 Thomas George Cowling  1957 Albrecht Unsöld  1958 André-Louis Danjon  1959 Raymond Arthur Lyttleton  1960 Viktor Ambartsumian  1961 Herman Zanstra  1962 Bengt Strömgren  1963 Harry Hemley Plaskett  1964 Martin Ryle, William Maurice Ewing  1965 Edward Bullard, Gerald Maurice Clemence  1966 Ira Sprague Bowen, Harold Clayton Urey  1967 Hannes Alfvén, Allan Rex Sandage  1968 Fred Hoyle, Walter Munk  1969 Albert Thomas Price, Martin Schwarzschild  1970 Horace Welcome Babcock  1971 Frank Press, Richard van der Riet Woolley  1972 Hal Thirlaway, Fritz Zwicky  1973 Francis Birch, Edwin Ernest Salpeter  1974 Ludwig Biermann, Keith Edward Bullen  1975 Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Ernst Öpik  1976 William McCrea, John Ashworth Ratcliffe  1977 D. R. Bates, John Gatenby Bolton  1978 Lyman Spitzer, James van Allen  1979 Leon Knopoff, Charles Gorrie Wynne  1980 Chaim Leib Pekeris, Maarten Schmidt  1981 J. F. Gilbert, Bernard Lovell  1982 Riccardo Giacconi, Harrie Massey  1983 Michael J. Seaton, Fred Whipple  1984 Stanley Keith Runcorn, Jakov Seldovich  1985 Thomas Gold, Stephen Hawking  1986 George E. Backus, Alexander Dalgarno  1987 Takeshi Nagata, Martin Rees  1988 Don Lorraine Anderson, Cornelis de Jager  1989 Raymond Hide, Ken Pounds  1990 James W. Dungey, Bernard Pagel  1991 Vitaly Ginzburg, Gerald Joseph Wasserburg  1992 Dan Peter McKenzie, Eugene Parker  1993 Peter Goldreich, Donald Lynden-Bell  1994 James Gunn, Thomas R. Kaiser  1995 John Houghton, Rashid Sunyaev  1996 K. Creer, Vera Rubin  1997 D. Farley, Donald Osterbrock  1998 Robert Ladislav Parker, James Peebles  1999 Kenneth Budden, Bohdan Paczyński  2000 Leon Lucy, Robert Hutchinson  2001 Hermann Bondi, Henry Rishbeth  2002 Leon Mestel, John Arthur Jacobs  2003 John Norris Bahcall, David Gubbins  2004 Jeremiah Paul Ostriker, Grenville Turner  2005 Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Carole Jordan  2006 Simon White, S. W. H. Cowley  2007 J. Leonard Culhane, Nigel Weiss  2008 Joseph Silk, Brian Kennett  2009 David Williams, Eric Priest  2010 Douglas Gough, John Woodhouse  2011 Richard Ellis, Eberhard Gruen