Past recipients of the Bruce Medal
2021 Bruce Elmegreen, IBM Research
2019 Martha P. Haynes, Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University
2018 Timothy Heckman, Johns Hopkins University
2017: Nick Scoville, California Institute of Technology
2016: Andrew Fabian, University of Cambridge
2015: Douglas N.C. Lin, University of California Santa Cruz
2014: Kenneth Kellerman, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), Charlottesville, Virginia
2013: James E. Gunn, Princeton University
2012: Sandra Faber, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), CA
2011: Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Princeton University, USA
2010: Gerry Neugebauer, Caltech and the University of Arizonas Steward Observatory
2009: Frank Shu, University of California, San Diego
2008: Sidney van den Bergh, Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria, BC, Canada
2007: Martin Harwit, Cornell University
2006: Frank J. Low, University of Arizona
2005: Robert P. Kraft, University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory
2004: Chushiro Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan
2003: Vera Rubin, Carnegie Institution of Washington
2002: Bohdan Paczynski, Princeton University Observatory
2001: Hans Bethe, Cornell University
2000: Rashid Sunyaev, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
1999: Geoffrey Burbidge, University of California, San Diego
1998: Donald Lynden-Bell, Cambridge University
1997: Eugene N. Parker, University of Chicago
1996: Albert Whitford, Lick Observatory
1995: James Peebles, Princeton University
1994: Wallace Sargent, Cal. Tech
1993: Martin Rees, Cambridge University
1992: Maarten Schmidt, Cal. Tech.
1991: Donald Osterbrock, Lick Obs., UC Santa Cruz
1990: Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Naval Research Laboratory
1989: Adriaan Blaauw, Groningen University
1988: John Bolton, Australian Nat’l Radio Obs.
1987: E.E. Salpeter, Cornell University
1986: Fred Whipple, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
1985: Thomas G. Cowling, University of Leeds
1984: Olin C. Wilson, Mt. Wilson & Las Campanas
1983: Yakov B. Zel’dovich, Space Research Inst., USSR
1982: E. Margaret Burbidge, UC San Diego
1981: Riccardo Giacconi, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
1980: George Herbig, Lick Obs., UC Santa Cruz
1979: William A. Fowler, Calif. Inst. Tech.
1978: Hendrik C. van de Hulst, Leiden Observatory
1977: Bart J. Bok, Steward Obs., Univ. of Ariz.
1976: Ernst J. Öpik, Armagh Observatory
1975: Allan R. Sandage, Hale Observatories
1974: Martin Ryle, Cambridge University
1973: Lyman Spitzer Jr., Princeton University Obs.
1972: Iosif S. Shklovskii, Sternberg Astron. Inst.
1971: Jesse Greenstein, Hale Obs., Caltech
1970: Fred Hoyle, Cambridge University
1969: Horace Babcock, Mt. Wilson & Palomar Obs.
1968: Willem J. Luyten, University of Minnesota
1967: Ludwig Biermann, Max Planck Institute
1966: Dirk Brouwer, Yale University Observatory
1965: Martin Schwarzschild, Princeton University Obs.
1964: Otto Heckman, Hamburg Observatory
1963: Seth B. Nicholson, Mt. Wilson & Palomar Obs.
1962: Grote Reber, National Radio Astron. Lab.
1961: Rudolph Minkowski, Mt. Wilson & Palomar Obs.
1960: Viktor A. Ambartsumian, Biurakan Observatory
1959: Bengt Stromgren, Institute for Advanced Study
1958: William Wilson Morgan, Yerkes Observatory
1957: Ira S. Bowen, Mt. Wilson & Palomar Obs.
1956: Albrecht Unsöld, University of Kiel
1955: Walter Baade, Mt. Wilson & Palomar Obs.
1954: Bertil Lindblad, Stockholm Observatory
1953: H.D. Babcock, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1952: Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Yerkes Obs., Univ. of Chicago
1951: M. Minnaert, Ultrecht Observatory
1950: Alfred H. Joy, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1949: H. Spencer Jones, Greenwich Observatory
1948: Otto Struve, Yerkes Observatory
1947: Bernard Lyot, Paris Observatory
1946: P.W. Merrill, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1945: E.A. Milne, Oxford University
1942: Jan H. Oort, Leiden Observatory
1941: Joel Stebbins, Washburn Observatory
1940: Frederick Hanley Seares, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1939: Harlow Shapley, Harvard College Observatory
1938: Edwin P. Hubble, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1937: Ejnar Hertzsprung, Leiden Observatory
1936: A.O. Leuschner, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
1935: Vesto M. Slipher, Lowell Observatory
1934: Alfred Fowler, University of London
1933: C.V.L. Charlier, Lund Observatory
1932: J.S. Plaskett, Dominion Astrophysical Obs.
1931: W. de Sitter, Leiden Observatory
1930: Max Wolf, Heidelberg Observatory
1929: Frank Schlesinger, Yale University Observatory
1928: Walter Sydney Adams, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1927: H.H. Turner, Oxford University
1926: Robert Grant Aitken, Lick Observatory
1925: Henry Norris Russell, Princeton Univ. Observatory
1924: Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge Observatory
1923: Benjamin Baillaud, Paris Observatory
1922: Frank W. Dyson, Greenwich Observatory
1921: H.A. Deslandres, Meudon Observatory
1920: Ernest William Brown, Yale University
1917: Edward Emerson Barnard, Yerkes Observatory
1916: George Ellery Hale, Mt. Wilson Observatory
1915: William Wallace Campbell, Lick Observatory
1914: J. Oskar Backlund, Pulkovo Observatory
1913: Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, Groningen Astronomical Lab.
1911: J. Henri Poincaré, University of Paris
1909: George William Hill, West Nyack, New York
1908: Edward Charles Pickering, Harvard College Observatory
1906: H. Carl Vogel, Potsdam Observatory
1904: William Huggins, London
1902: Giovanni V. Schiaperelli, Milan Observatory
1900: David Gill, Cape Observatory
1899: Arthur Auwers, Berlin
1898: Simon Newcomb, U.S. Naval Observatory