George Ellery Hale - Honors

Honors

Awards

  • The 1894 Janssen Medal from the Paris Academy of Sciences.
  • The 1902 Rumford Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
  • The 1904 Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences.
  • The 1904 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society.
  • The 1916 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
  • The 1917 Prix Jules Janssen from the French Astronomical Society
  • In 1919 he was elected an associate of Academie des Sciences, Institut de France.
  • The 1920 Galileo Medal from the University of Florence.
  • The 1921 Actonian Prize from Royal Institution of London.
  • The 1926 Elliott Cresson Medal in Physics from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.
  • The 1926 Arthur Noble Medal from the City of Pasadena.
  • The 1927 Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia.
  • The 1932 Sir Godfrey Copley Medal from the Royal Society of Great Britain.
  • The 1935 Frederic Ives Medal from the Optical Society of America.
  • Foreign Member of the Royal Society

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