George_Darwin_Lectureship
George Darwin Lectureship
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The George Darwin Lectureship is an award granted by the Royal Astronomical Society to a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker' on the subject of Astronomy including astrochemistry, astrobiology and astroparticle physics.[1] The award is named after the astronomer George Darwin and has been given annually since 1984.[1][2] The speaker may be based in the UK or overseas.
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| George Darwin Lecture | |
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The award is named in honour of the astronomer George Darwin | |
| Awarded for | distinguished and eloquent speaker on a suitable topic in astronomy, astrochemistry, astrobiology and astroparticle physics |
| Sponsored by | Royal Astronomical Society |
| Date | 1984 (1984)[1] |
| Location | London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Named after | George Darwin |
| Website | ras |
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Laureates of the award include:[1][3]
- 2024 Chiaki Kobayashi[4]
- 2023 [needs update]
- 2022 Alan Fitzsimmons[citation needed]
- 2021 Filippo Fraternali[citation needed]
- 2020 Ofer Lahav[citation needed]
- 2019 Chris Done[citation needed]
- 2018 Stephen J. Smartt: "Kilonovae and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy" [1]
- 2017 Catherine Heymans : Observing the Dark side of our Universe[1][5]
- 2016 Michael Kramer : Probing Einstein's Universe and its physics - the joy of being curious[6]
- 2015 Katherine Blundell : Rapid Evolution in Astronomy[7]
- 2014 James S. Dunlop : The Cosmic History of Star Formation[8]
- 2013 Eline Tolstoy : Galactic Palaeontology[9]
- 2012 Andrew Collier Cameron: Winds, Tides and the Migration of Hot Jupiters
- 2011 Michael Turner : Connecting quarks to the cosmos
- 2010 Carlos Frenk : The Small-Scale Structure of the Universe
- 2009 Neil Gehrels : SWIFT and its results
- 2008 Alan Watson : The Birth of Cosmic Ray Astronomy on the Argentine Pampas
- 2007 Reinhard Genzel : The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way
- 2006 Michael Werner : The Spitzer Space Telescope: Probing the universe with Infrared Eyes
- 2005 Joseph Silk : The Dark Side of the Universe
- 2004 Mike Edmunds : The Elemental Universe
- 2003 Anneila Sargent : The Formation of Planetary Systems
- 2002 Ramesh Narayan : Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon
- 2001 Wendy Freedman : The Expansion Rate of the Universe
- 2000 Kip Thorne : Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window onto the Universe.
- 1999 Geoff Marcy : Extrasolar Planets
- 1998 Michael Perryman : A Stereoscopic View of the Galaxy
- 1997 Simon White : The Formation of Galaxies
- 1996 Andrew Fabian : Broad Iron Lines from AGN: Test of Strong Gravity
- 1995 Bohdan Paczyński : Gravitational micro-lensing and the search for dark matter
- 1994 Scott Tremaine : Is the Solar System Stable?
- 1993 Riccardo Giacconi : Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
- 1992 John Barrow : Unprincipled Cosmology
- 1991 Sandra Faber : How galaxies (probably) formed
- 1990 Andre Maeder : Massive Stars in Galaxies
- 1989 Roger Blandford : Gravitational Lenses
- 1988 Roger Tayler : The Sun as a Star
- 1987 Wal Sargent : Observing the evolution of large scale structure in the Universe
- 1986 Gerald Neugebauer : Infrared astronomy
- 1985 Robert Wilson: A perspective of ultraviolet astronomy
- 1984 Icko Iben : The life of an intermediate mass star - in isolation/in a close binary
- "The George Darwin Lectures" (PDF). Ras.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- "George Darwin Lectureship". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-08..
- "The George Darwin Lectures" (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-08. [dead link]
- Tonkin, Sam (12 January 2024). "Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2024 award winners" (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
- "RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist". RAS. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-20. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- "Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Friday 2015 November 13 at 16h 00m". The Observatory. 136 (1251): 56–64. 2016. Bibcode:2016Obs...136...56. See page 62.
- "Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Friday 2015 January 9 at 16h 00m". The Observatory. 135 (1247): 179–183. 2015. Bibcode:2015Obs...135..179. Retrieved 25 January 2017. See page 182.
- "Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Friday 2013 November 8 at 16h 00m". The Observatory. 134 (1240): 93–99. 2014. Bibcode:2014Obs...134...93. Retrieved 25 January 2017. See page 97.