 | Benjamin Franklin Finkel - Mathematics - 1888 - 518 pages
...in 1892, and one from Paris on the tercentenary of Galileo's connection with the University in 1893. He was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1874 and in 1878 received the great gold Huyghens medal of the University of Leyden, which is given... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1890 - 412 pages
...theory, published in the American Journal, and for other astronomical papers, published elsewhere, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 1887.* Among the writers for the American Journal is Prof. WW Johnson, of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis.... | |
 | Victor Plarr - Biography - 1899 - 1318 pages
...discoveries of meteoric showers and comets. In February 1898, at the anniversary meeting of the Fellows, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his labours in various departments of the science, and particularly in that of meteoric... | |
 | Victor Plarr - Biography - 1899 - 1380 pages
...discoveries of meteoric showers and comets. In February 1898, at the anniversary meeting of the Fallows, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in recognition of his labours in various departments of the science, and particularly in that of meteoric... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1901 - 200 pages
...life of our system. Hofrath Schwabe, of Dessau, was the originator of this line of research, for which he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in the year 1857. Imbued with the idea of discovering an intra-Mercurial planet, this indefatigable observer,... | |
 | Education - 1888 - 1078 pages
...theory, published in the American Journal, and for other astronomical papers, published elsewhere, he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, in 1887.* Among the writers for the American Journal is I 'ml'. \VW Johnson, of the I*. S. Naval Academy... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1917 - 520 pages
...observations occupied him ten years, and formed the foundation for his great catalogues of stars, for which he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1888. Auwers took a large share in the observations of the transit of Venus in 1874 and 1882, and visited... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1917 - 506 pages
...observations occupied him ten years, and formed the foundation for his great catalogues of stars, for which he was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1888. Auwers took a large share in the observations of the transit of Venus in 1874 and 1882, and visited... | |
 | Frank Moore Colby, Talcott Williams - Education - 1922 - 1022 pages
...the A'etc Testament (1913). SOUTH, SIB JAMES (1785-1807). An English astronomer, born in Southwark. He was a member of the College of Surgeons and displayed...Herschel's inferences regarding orbital motion. For this he received the gold medal of the Astronomical Society in 1826. In the same year he was also awarded the... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - Universities and colleges - 1910 - 890 pages
..." Side Lights on Astronomy." For his astronomical work prizes and premiums came to him many times. He was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1874, the Huygens medal of the Dutch Scientific Association in 1878, the Copley medal of the Royal... | |
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He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1954. 
