The Clifford W. Holmes Award is presented annually near Big Bear City, California at the RTMC Astronomy Expo to an individual for a significant contribution to popularizing astronomy .[ 1]
Established in 1978 by Richard Poremba as the Astronomy for America Award, it was renamed for Clifford W. Holmes , the founder of the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) in 1980.
Awardees
Recipients of the award are:[ 1] [ 2]
1978: Paul Zurakowski
1979: Arthur Leonard
1980: Robert E. Cox
1981: Richard Berry
1982: Dennis di Cicco
1983: John Dobson
1984: Jim Jacobson
1985: Arthur Leonard
1986: Bob Schalck
1987: Clyde Tombaugh
1988: Kevin Medlock
1989: David H. Levy
1990: Dick Buchroeder, (MP-cite )
1991: Rick Shaffer
1992: Ashley McDermott
1993: John Sanford
1994: Donald C. Parker
1995: Don Machholz
1996: Gil Clark
1997: Randall Wilcox
1998: Randy Johnson
1999: William Seavey
2000: Tom Cave
2001: Scott W. Roberts
2002: Ed Krupp
2003: Steve Edberg
2004: Dean Ketelsen
2005: Mike Simmons
2006: Al Fink
2007: Dave Rodrigues
2008: Laura and Bob Eklund
2009: Don Nicholson
2010: David Crawford (spcl. award [ a]
2011: Robert Victor
2012: Robert D. Stephens
2013: Jim Benet
2014: Jane Houston-Jones
2015: Terri Lappin (MP-cite )
2016: Randy and Pamela Shivak
See also
References
^ Special awards to Mount Wilson Observatory staff for motivating firefighters during the Station Fire: Hal and Susan McAlister, Dave Jurasevich and Larry Webster
External links
