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 Lecture
The award is named in honour of the astronomer George Darwin
Awarded fordistinguished and eloquent speaker on a suitable topic in astronomy, astrochemistry, astrobiology and astroparticle physics
Sponsored byRoyal Astronomical Society
Date1984 (1984)[1]
LocationLondon
CountryUnited Kingdom
Named afterGeorge Darwin
Websiteras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2267-george-darwin-lectureship

George Darwin Lecturers

Laureates of the award include:[1][3]

  • 2018: Stephen J. Smartt: "Kilonovae and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy" [1]
  • 2017 Catherine Heymans : Observing the Dark side of our Universe[1][4]
  • 2016 Michael Kramer : Probing Einstein's Universe and its physics - the joy of being curious[5]
  • 2015 Katherine Blundell : Rapid Evolution in Astronomy[6]
  • 2014 James S. Dunlop : The Cosmic History of Star Formation[7]
  • 2013 Eline Tolstoy : Galactic Palaeontology[8]
  • 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

See also

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.
  4. "Catherine Heymans: Observing the Dark side of our Universe". youtube.com.
  5. "RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist". RAS. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-20. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  6. "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.
  7. "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.
  8. "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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