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 Dominic M. Bowman^[5]
2022 Alan Fitzsimmons
2021 Filippo Fraternali
2020 Ofer Lahav
2019 Chris Done
2018 Stephen J. Smartt: "Kilonovae and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy" ^[1]
2017 Catherine Heymans : Observing the Dark side of our Universe^[1]^[6]
2016 Michael Kramer : Probing Einstein's Universe and its physics - the joy of being curious^[7]
2015 Katherine Blundell : Rapid Evolution in Astronomy^[8]
2014 James S. Dunlop : The Cosmic History of Star Formation^[9]
2013 Eline Tolstoy : Galactic Palaeontology^[10]
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

References

1 2 3 4 5 6"The George Darwin Lectures"(PDF). Ras.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
↑"George Darwin Lectureship". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-08..
↑"The George Darwin Lectures"(PDF). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
↑Tonkin, Sam (12 January 2024). "Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2024 award winners" (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
↑"RAS press release for George Darwin Lectureship 2023"(PDF) (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
↑"Catherine Heymans: Observing the Dark side of our Universe". youtube.com.
↑"RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist". RAS. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-20. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
↑"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.
↑"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.
↑"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.

[list-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6"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.

[winners_2024-4] Tonkin, Sam (12 January 2024). "Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2024 award winners" (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2024.

[winner_2023-5] "RAS press release for George Darwin Lectureship 2023"(PDF) (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 31 January 2023.

[heymans-6] "Catherine Heymans: Observing the Dark side of our Universe". youtube.com.

[winner_2016-7] "RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist". RAS. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-20. Retrieved 9 January 2015.

[obs_ras_nov2015-8] "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.

[obs_ras_jan2015-9] "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.

[obs_ras_nov2013-10] "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.

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