James Craig Watson Medal

The James Craig Watson Medal was established by the bequest of James Craig Watson, and is awarded by the US National Academy of Sciences for contributions to astronomy.

The recipients have been:

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1887	Benjamin A. Gould
1889	Ed Schoenfeld
1891	G. F. J. A. Auwers
1894	Seth Carlo Chandler
1899	David Gill
1913	J. C. Kapteyn
1916	Armin O. Leuschner
1924	C. V. L. Charlier
1929	Willem De Sitter
1936	Ernest W. Brown
1948	Samuel A. Mitchell
1951	Herbert R. Morgan
1955	Chester B. Watts
1957	George Van Biesbroeck
1960	Yusuke Hagihara
1961	Otto Heckmann
1964	Willem J. Luyten
1965	Paul Herget
1966	Wallace J. Eckert
1969	Jurgen K. Moser
1972	André Deprit
1975	Gerald M. Clemence
1979	Charles T. Kowal
1982	Stanton J. Peale
1985	W. Kent Ford, Jr
1988	R. B. Leighton
1991	Maarten Schmidt
1994	Yasuo Tanaka
1998	Carolyn S. Shoemaker and Eugene M. Shoemaker
2001	David T. Wilkinson
2004	Vera C. Rubin