* 1898 [[Simon Newcomb]]
* 1899 [[Arthur Auwers]]
* 1900 [[David Gill]]
* 1902 [[Giovanni Schiaparelli]]
* 1904 [[William Huggins]]
* 1906 [[Hermann Carl Vogel]]
* 1908 [[Edward Charles Pickering]]
* 1909 [[George William Hill]]
* 1911 [[Henri Poincaré]]
* 1913 [[Jacobus C. Kapteyn]]
* 1914 [[Oskar Backlund]]
* 1915 [[William Wallace Campbell]]
* 1916 [[George Ellery Hale]]
* 1917 [[Edward Barnard]]
* 1920 [[Ernest William Brown]]
* 1921 [[Henri-Alexandre Deslandres]]
* 1922 [[Frank Dyson]]
* 1923 [[Benjamin Baillaud]]
* 1924 [[Arthur Stanley Eddington]]
* 1925 [[Henry Norris Russell]]
* 1926 [[Robert Grant Aitken]]
* 1927 [[Herbert H. Turner]]
* 1928 [[Walter Sydney Adams]]
* 1929 [[Frank Schlesinger]]
* 1930 [[Max Wolf]]
* 1931 [[Willem de Sitter]]
* 1932 [[John Stanley Plaskett]]
* 1933 [[Carl Charlier]]
* 1934 [[Alfred Fowler]]
* 1935 [[Vesto Slipher]]
* 1936 [[Armin Otto Leuschner]]
* 1937 [[Ejnar Hertzsprung]]
* 1938 [[Edwin Hubble]]
* 1939 [[Harlow Shapley]]
* 1940 [[Frederick Hanley Seares]]
* 1941 [[Joel Stebbins]]
* 1942 [[Jan Hendrik Oort]]
* 1945 [[Edward Arthur Milne]]
* 1946 [[Paul Willard Merrill]]
* 1947 [[Bernard Ferdinand Lyot]]
* 1948 [[Otto von Struve]]
* 1949 [[Harold Spencer Jones]]
* 1950 [[Alfred Harrison Joy]]
* 1951 [[Marcel Minnaert]]
* 1952 [[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]]
* 1953 [[Harold D. Babcock]]
* 1954 [[Bertil Lindblad]]
* 1955 [[Walter Baade]]
* 1956 [[Albrecht Unsöld]]
* 1957 [[Ira Sprague Bowen]]
* 1958 [[William Wilson Morgan]]
* 1959 [[Bengt Strömgren]]
* 1960 [[Viktor Hambarzumjan]]
* 1961 [[Rudolph Minkowski]]
* 1962 [[Grote Reber]]
* 1963 [[Seth Barnes Nicholson]]
* 1964 [[Otto Heckmann]]
* 1965 [[Martin Schwarzschild]]
* 1966 [[Dirk Brouwer]]
* 1967 [[Ludwig Biermann]]
* 1968 [[Willem Jacob Luyten]]
* 1969 [[Horace Welcome Babcock]]
* 1970 [[Fred Hoyle]]
* 1971 [[Jesse Leonard Greenstein]]
* 1972 [[Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky]]
* 1973 [[Lyman Spitzer]]
* 1974 [[Martin Ryle]]
* 1975 [[Allan Rex Sandage]]
* 1976 [[Ernst Öpik]]
* 1977 [[Bart J. Bok]]
* 1978 [[Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst]]
* 1979 [[William Alfred Fowler]]
* 1980 [[George Howard Herbig]]
* 1981 [[Riccardo Giacconi]]
* 1982 [[Margaret Burbidge]]
* 1983 [[Jakow Borissowitsch Seldowitsch]]
* 1984 [[Olin C. Wilson]]
* 1985 [[Thomas George Cowling]]
* 1986 [[Fred Whipple]]
* 1987 [[Edwin Salpeter]]
* 1988 [[John Gatenby Bolton]]
* 1989 [[Adriaan Blaauw]]
* 1990 [[Charlotte Moore Sitterly]]
* 1991 [[Donald Osterbrock]]
* 1992 [[Maarten Schmidt]]
* 1993 [[Martin Rees]]
* 1994 [[Wallace Sargent]]
* 1995 [[James Peebles]]
* 1996 [[Albert Whitford]]
* 1997 [[Eugene N. Parker]]
* 1998 [[Donald Lynden-Bell]]
* 1999 [[Geoffrey Burbidge]]
* 2000 [[Rashid Sunyaev]]
* 2001 [[Hans Bethe]]
* 2002 [[Bohdan Paczyński]]
* 2003 [[Vera Rubin]]
* 2004 [[Hayashi Chūshirō]]
* 2005 [[Robert Paul Kraft]]
* 2006 [[Frank James Low]]
* 2007 [[Martin Otto Harwit]]
* 2008 [[Sidney van den Bergh]]
* 2009 [[Frank Shu|Frank H. Shu]]
* 2010 [[Gerry Neugebauer]]
* 2011 [[Jeremiah P. Ostriker]]
* 2012 [[Sandra M. Faber]]
* 2013 [[James E. Gunn]]
* 2014 [[Kenneth Kellermann]]
* 2015 [[Douglas N. C. Lin]]
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