George Darwin Lectureship

George Darwin Lecture
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.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2267-george-darwin-lectureship

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.

George Darwin Lecturers

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
• 1931 Willem de Sitter : Jupiter's Galilean satellites

See also

• List of astronomy awards

References

1. "The George Darwin Lectures" (PDF). Ras.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
2. "George Darwin Lectureship". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-08..
3. "The George Darwin Lectures" (PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-08. ^{[dead link‍]}
4. Tonkin, Sam (12 January 2024). "Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2024 award winners" (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
5. "Catherine Heymans: Observing the Dark side of our Universe". youtube.com.
6. "RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist". RAS. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-20. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
7. "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.
8. "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.
9. "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.