George Darwin Lectureship

George Darwin Lecture
The award is named in honour of the astronomer George Darwin
Awarded for	distinguished and eloquent speaker on a suitable topic in astronomy, astrochemistry, astrobiology and astroparticle physics
Sponsored by	Royal Astronomical Society
Date	1984 (1984) [1]
Location	London
Country	United Kingdom
Named after	George Darwin
Website	ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grants/awards/2267-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 ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2021 Filippo Fraternali ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2020 Ofer Lahav ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 2019 Chris Done ^{[ citation needed ]}
• 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

See also

• List of astronomy awards

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.^{[ dead link ]}
4. Tonkin, Sam (12 January 2024). "Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2024 award winners" (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 12 January 2024.
5. "RAS press release for George Darwin Lectureship 2023" (PDF) (Press release). Royal Astronomical Society. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
6. "Catherine Heymans: Observing the Dark side of our Universe". youtube.com.
7. "RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist". RAS. 8 January 2015. Archived from the original on 2016-07-20. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
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.
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.
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.