Honors
Awards
- Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1913)
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1915)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1941)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1950)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1956)
Named after him
- The crater Stebbins on the Moon
- Asteroid 2300 Stebbins
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I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
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