James Craig Watsoni medal

James Craig Watsoni medal

James Craig Watsoni medal (inglise keeles James Craig Watson Medal) on USA Rahvusliku Teaduste Akadeemia teadusauhind panuse eest astronoomiasse.

Medal on nimetatud astronoom James Craig Watsoni (1838–1880) järgi.

Auhinda antakse välja alates 1887. aastast.

Laureaate

1887 – Benjamin Apthorp Gould 1889 – Ed Schoenfeld 1891 – Arthur Auwers 1894 – Seth Carlo Chandler 1899 – David Gill 1913 – Jacobus Kapteyn 1916 – Armin Otto Leuschner 1924 – Carl Charlier 1929 – Willem de Sitter 1936 – Ernest William Brown 1948 – Samuel Alfred Mitchell 1951 – Herbert R. Morgan 1955 – Chester Burleigh Watts 1957 – George Van Biesbroeck 1960 – Yusuke Hagihara 1961 – Otto Heckmann 1964 – Willem Jacob Luyten 1965 – Paul Herget

1966 – Wallace John Eckert 1969 – Jürgen Moser 1972 – André Deprit 1975 – Gerald Maurice Clemence 1979 – Charles Kowal 1982 – Stanton Jerrold Peale 1985 – Kent Ford 1988 – Robert Benjamin Leighton 1991 – Maarten Schmidt 1994 – Yasuo Tanaka 1998 – Carolyn Shoemaker ja Eugene Shoemaker 2001 – David Todd Wilkinson 2004 – Vera Rubin 2007 – Michael Skrutskie ja Roc Cutri 2010 – Margaret Geller 2012 – Jeremiah Paul Ostriker 2014 – Robert Kirshner 2016 – Timothy M. Brown 2018 – Ewine van Dishoeck