• The Jackson-Gwilt Medal is an award that has been issued by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) since 1897. The original criteria were for the invention...
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    and grandchildren. The Royal Astronomical Society awarded him the Jackson-Gwilt Medal in 1931. Tombaugh was probably the most eminent astronomer to have...
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  • commissioned by the Royal Astronomical Society to create the medal for the Jackson-Gwilt Prize in Astronomy. Relief of St. George and the Dragon, 1897...
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  • fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1884, and was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal in 1923. The crater Williams on the Moon and a crater on Mars are...
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    public outreach (Annie Maunder Medal), instrumentation (Jackson-Gwilt Medal) and history of science (Agnes Mary Clerke Medal). Lectureships include the Harold...
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  • until 1938 by the astronomer R J Trumpler. Melotte was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1909. A collection of his papers...
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    1929. Has a member of the IAU commission on planets. He won the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1918. He co-wrote Splendour...
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  • in 1973, in the New Year Honours List. In 1974, he received the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. After retiring from teaching in...
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  • 1892, he described oases and canals on Mars. He was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1935 for "discoveries of comets...
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    Laplace Medal from the Société astronomique de France (the French Astronomical Society). In 1897 he was the first person awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal of...
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