The price Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is given each year since 1946 by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), in recognition of one consecrated life to research in the field of astronomy.

Prizes winner

• 1946 : Henry Norris Russell

• 1947: Walter Sydney Adams
• 1948: No given price this year
• 1949: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1950 : Harlow Shapley
• 1951 : Jan Oort
• 1952 : No given price this year
• 1953: Enrico Fermi
• 1953: Lyman Spitzer
• 1954 : No given price this year
• 1955: Paul Merrill
• 1956: Joel Stebbins
• 1957: Otto Struve
• 1958 : Walter Baade
• 1959: Gerald P. Kuiper
• 1960: Martin Schwarzschild
• 1961: William Wilson Morgan
• 1962: Grote Reber
• 1963 : William Fowler
• 1964: Will go S. Bowen
• 1965: Bengt Strömgren
• 1966 : Richard Tousey
• 1967: Otto Neugebauer
• 1968 : John G. Bolton
• 1969: Eugene Parker
• 1970: Jesse Greenstein
• 1971 : Fred Hoyle
• 1972: Allan Sandage
• 1973 : Leo Goldberg
• 1974: Edwin Salpeter
• 1975 : George Herbig
• 1976: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• 1977 : Olin C. Wilson
• 1978: Maarten Schmidt
• 1979: Peter Goldreich
• 1980: Jeremiah P. Ostriker
• 1981: Riccardo Giacconi
• 1982 : Bart Bok
• 1983: Herbert Friedman
• 1984: Margaret Burbidge
• 1985 : Olin J. Eggen
• 1986: Albert Whitford
• 1987: Fred L. Whipple
• 1988: Gerard de Vaucouleurs
• 1989: Icko Iben, Jr.
• 1990 : Sidney van den Bergh
• 1991 : Donald Osterbrock
• 1992: Lawrence Outward journey
• 1993: James Peebles
• 1994: Vera Rubin
• 1995 : Robert Kraft
• 1996: Gerry Neugebauer
• 1997 : Alastair Cameron
• 1998 : Charles Townes
• 1999: John Bahcall
• 2000: Lynden-Beautiful Donald
• 2001: Wallace Sargent
• 2002: George Wallerstein
• 2003: George Wetherill
• 2004: Martin Rees
• 2005: James E. Gunn
• 2006: Bohdan Paczyński

External bond

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