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The Eddington Medal, named after Sir Arthur Eddington, is awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society nominally once every two years for investigations of outstanding merit in theoretical astrophysics.

Recipients

1953 Georges Lemaître
1955 H. C. van de Hulst
1958 H. W. Babcock
1959 J. S. Hey
1960 R. d'E. Atkinson
1961 Hans Albrecht Bethe
1962 André Lallemand
1963 J. A. R. Sandage , M. Schwarzschild
1964 H. Friedman , R. Tousey
19651965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). Events January-February January 4 United States President Lyndon Johnson proclaims his " Great Society" during his State of the Union address. January 14 Prime Ministers of N R. V. Pound , G. A. Rebka
1966Events January January 1 In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 Strike of public transportation workers in New York City ends January 13 January 3 First Acid Test at the Fil R. Wildt
1967Events January January 4 British motorboat racer Donald Campbell dies while attempting a water speed record in Coniston Lake. January 4 Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid. January 6 Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch " Operatio Robert F. ChristyRobert F. Christy was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1967.
1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the R. Hanbury Brown , R. Q. Twiss
1969For other uses, see Number 1969. For the movie, see 1969 (movie). Events January January 1 Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper The News Of The World January 5 The Derry Riots leave over 100 people i Antony HewishAntony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. He was also awarded the Eddington Me
1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January Chushiro Hayashi
1971 Desmond George King-Hele
1972 Paul Ledoux
1975 Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
1978 W. A. Fowler
1981 P. J. E. Peebles
1984 D. Lynden-Bell
1987 B. Paczynski
1990 I. Iben, Jr
1993 L. Mestel
1996 A. Guth
1999 R. Blandford
2002 Douglas O. Gough

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