The president of the Royal Astronomical Society (prior to 1831 known as President of the Astronomical Society of London) chairs the Council of the Royal...
24 KB (552 words) - 17:43, 14 September 2024
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is a learned society and charity that encourages and promotes the study of astronomy, solar-system science, geophysics...
19 KB (1,802 words) - 18:19, 18 July 2024
The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society is the highest award given by the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS). The RAS Council have "complete freedom...
28 KB (915 words) - 17:47, 12 January 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in astronomy, astrophysics and related fields. It publishes...
12 KB (1,089 words) - 12:19, 3 July 2024
William McCrea (astronomer) (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
McCrea was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1961 to 1963 and president of Section A of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...
5 KB (518 words) - 06:06, 5 April 2024
Martin Barstow (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Secretary for the Royal Astronomical Society between 2005 and 2013, he was elected to be the 89th President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2013. After...
4 KB (168 words) - 01:45, 31 July 2024
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
recipients. Bell Burnell was president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2002 to 2004, president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until...
59 KB (5,009 words) - 08:25, 13 September 2024
John Herschel (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Lagrange's solution, not excepting the all inventive Euler himself. Herschel served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society three times: 1827–1829, 1839–1841...
44 KB (4,130 words) - 21:26, 18 September 2024
Frank Watson Dyson (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
of the Royal Society – 1901 Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh – 1906 President, Royal Astronomical Society – 1911–1913 Vice-president, Royal Society...
13 KB (1,070 words) - 21:54, 30 April 2024
Arnold Wolfendale (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
and served as president of the European Physical Society (1999–2001). He was President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1981 to 1983. His family...
15 KB (1,398 words) - 08:38, 13 September 2024
John Brinkley (astronomer) (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
a position he held for the remaining nine years of his life. Brinkley was elected President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831, serving in that...
10 KB (1,018 words) - 06:05, 3 June 2024
Thomas Cowling (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1985. He was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1965 to 1967. He was also awarded the Hughes Medal...
7 KB (582 words) - 12:29, 20 May 2023
William Huggins (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1867, jointly with William Allen Miller. He later served as President of the Royal Astronomical Society...
14 KB (1,256 words) - 18:47, 23 June 2024
Henry Thomas Colebrooke (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Turner. "The Decade 1820–1830". History of the Royal Astronomical Society 1820–1920. pp. 11, 18–19. "Past RAS Presidents". Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved...
13 KB (1,150 words) - 03:55, 31 July 2024
Martin Rees (redirect from Baron Rees of Ludlow)
fifteenth Astronomer Royal, appointed in 1995, and was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 2004 to 2012 and President of the Royal Society between 2005...
38 KB (3,078 words) - 06:59, 13 September 2024
Francis Baily (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
of "Baily's beads" during a total eclipse of the Sun. Baily was also a major figure in the early history of the Royal Astronomical Society, as one of...
10 KB (951 words) - 17:32, 19 June 2024
William Christie (astronomer) (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in 1904. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1881. He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society...
5 KB (330 words) - 17:10, 27 November 2023
comprise the most senior scientists in the United Kingdom: the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Royal Astronomical Society, the Astronomer...
4 KB (302 words) - 02:31, 9 April 2024
David Gill (astronomer) (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
of the United States National Academy of Sciences, 1898 Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, 24 May 1900 President, Royal Astronomical Society,...
16 KB (1,358 words) - 08:39, 13 September 2024
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
University). He was president of the Royal Astronomical Society 1886–1888 and 1901–1903. When George Biddell Airy retired as Astronomer Royal in 1881 it is...
8 KB (662 words) - 19:06, 11 June 2024
bibliophile and philatelist. A member of the Royal Society, Crawford was elected president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1878. He was a prominent Freemason...
23 KB (2,372 words) - 21:38, 12 September 2024
Donald Lynden-Bell (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
quasars. Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985–1987) and received numerous awards for his work, including the inaugural Kavli Prize...
16 KB (1,480 words) - 19:35, 17 July 2024
Fred Hoyle (redirect from Rejection of Earth-based abiogenesis (Fred Hoyle))
Knighthood (1972) President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1971–1973) Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge (1973–2001) Royal Medal (1974) Klumpke-Roberts...
54 KB (6,322 words) - 23:53, 19 September 2024
David Southwood (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
scientist who holds the post of Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College London. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society from 2012–2014...
17 KB (1,438 words) - 11:33, 19 July 2024
Manuel John Johnson (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
was president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1855–1857 and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856. In 1850 he had married Caroline, the daughter...
5 KB (544 words) - 19:29, 28 November 2022
Bernard Lovell (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
University of Bath 1969 – Lorimer Medal of the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh 1969–71 – President of the Royal Astronomical Society 1974 – Elected to the American...
21 KB (1,927 words) - 07:03, 29 May 2024
John Couch Adams (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
in the University of Cambridge from 1859 until his death. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866. In 1884, he attended the International...
36 KB (4,182 words) - 15:35, 20 September 2024
Edward Arthur Milne (category Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society)
interior structure of stars, aroused controversy. Milne was President of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1943–1945. During World War II he again worked on ballistics...
20 KB (2,016 words) - 11:27, 9 November 2023
John Russell Hind (redirect from Discoverer of Iris)
elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1863 and President of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1880. He died in 1895 in Twickenham, London. Hind...
8 KB (634 words) - 08:28, 27 December 2023
William Herschel (redirect from Herschel Catalogue of Double Stars)
(moons of Saturn). Herschel was made a Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1816. He was the first President of the Royal Astronomical Society when it...
78 KB (8,492 words) - 07:55, 13 September 2024