Harlow Shapley - Honors

Honors

Awards

  • Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1926)
  • Prix Jules Janssen of the French Astronomical Society (1933)
  • Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1933)
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1934)
  • Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1939)
  • Franklin Medal (1945)
  • Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1950)

Named after him

  • The crater Shapley on the Moon
  • Asteroid 1123 Shapleya
  • Shapley Supercluster
  • Harlow Shapley Visiting Lectureships In Astronomy, American Astronomical Society

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