Editing Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

The '''Henry Norris Russell Lectureship''' is awarded each year by the [[American Astronomical Society]] in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research. The idea for the lectureship came from then society President [[Harlow Shapley]] in 1945, who led the fund raising drive to collect $10,000 from the membership. One of the major contributors was the Mexican Ambassador to the United States, as Russell had been an important representative at the dedication ceremony for the [[Tonantzintla Observatory|Mexican National Observatory]]. The goal was reached in December 1946, using not a little amount of coercive language by Shapley. The first Russell lecturer was, naturally, fellow American astronomer [[Henry Norris Russell]], for whom the award is named. Russell gave a lecture titled "The Royal Road of Eclipses" concerning [[eclipsing binary]] stars.<ref name="Devorkin2000"/>

==Previous lecturers==
This list of lecturers is from the American Astronomical Society's website.<ref name="AAS Henry Norris Russell Lectureship">{{cite web | title=Henry Norris Russell Lectureship | website=American Astronomical Society | url=https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/henry-norris-russell-lectureship | access-date=2024-01-13}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Year
!Winner
|-
|[[1946 in science|1946]]
|[[Henry Norris Russell]]
|-
|[[1947 in science|1947]]
|[[Walter Sydney Adams]]
|-
|[[1948 in science|1948]]
|''No award''
|-
|[[1949 in science|1949]]
|[[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]]
|-
|[[1950 in science|1950]]
|[[Harlow Shapley]]
|-
|[[1951 in science|1951]]
|[[Jan Oort]]
|-
|[[1952 in science|1952]]
|''No award''
|-
|[[1953 in science|1953]]
|[[Enrico Fermi]], [[Lyman Spitzer]]
|-
|[[1954 in science|1954]]
|''No award''
|-
|[[1955 in science|1955]]
|[[Paul Merrill]]
|-
|[[1956 in science|1956]]
|[[Joel Stebbins]]
|-
|[[1957 in science|1957]]
|[[Otto Struve]]
|-
|[[1958 in science|1958]]
|[[Walter Baade]]
|-
|[[1959 in science|1959]]
|[[Gerard P. Kuiper]]
|-
|[[1960 in science|1960]]
|[[Martin Schwarzschild]]
|-
|[[1961 in science|1961]]
|[[William Wilson Morgan]]
|-
|[[1962 in science|1962]]
|[[Grote Reber]]
|-
|[[1963 in science|1963]]
|[[William Alfred Fowler]]
|-
|[[1964 in science|1964]]
|[[Ira S. Bowen]]
|-
|[[1965 in science|1965]] 
|[[Bengt Strömgren]]
|-
|[[1966 in science|1966]]
|[[Richard Tousey]]
|-
|[[1967 in science|1967]]
|[[Otto Neugebauer]]
|-
|[[1968 in science|1968]]
|[[John G. Bolton]]
|-
|[[1969 in science|1969]]
|[[Eugene Parker]]
|-
|[[1970 in science|1970]]
|[[Jesse L. Greenstein]]
|-
|[[1971 in science|1971]] 
|[[Fred Hoyle]]
|-
|[[1972 in science|1972]]
|[[Allan Sandage]]
|-
|[[1973 in science|1973]]
|[[Leo Goldberg]]
|-
|[[1974 in science|1974]]
|[[Edwin Salpeter]]
|-
|[[1975 in science|1975]]
|[[George Herbig]]
|-
|[[1976 in science|1976]]
|[[Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin]]
|-
|[[1977 in science|1977]]
|[[Olin C. Wilson]]
|-
|[[1978 in science|1978]]
|[[Maarten Schmidt]]
|-
|[[1979 in science|1979]]
|[[Peter Goldreich]]
|-
|[[1980 in science|1980]] 
|[[Jeremiah P. Ostriker]]
|-
|[[1981 in science|1981]]
|[[Riccardo Giacconi]]
|-
|[[1982 in science|1982]]
|[[Bart Bok]]
|-
|[[1983 in science|1983]]
|[[Herbert Friedman]]
|-
|[[1984 in science|1984]]
|[[E. Margaret Burbidge]]
|-
|[[1985 in science|1985]]
|[[Olin J. Eggen]]
|-
|[[1986 in science|1986]]
|[[Albert Whitford (astronomer)|Albert Whitford]]
|-
|[[1987 in science|1987]]
|[[Fred L. Whipple]]
|-
|[[1988 in science|1988]]
|[[Gerard de Vaucouleurs]]
|-
|[[1989 in science|1989]]
|[[Icko Iben|Icko Iben, Jr.]]
|-
|[[1990 in science|1990]]
|[[Sidney van den Bergh]]
|-
|[[1991 in science|1991]]
|[[Donald Osterbrock]]
|-
|[[1992 in science|1992]]
|[[Lawrence Aller]]
|-
|[[1993 in science|1993]]
|[[Philip James Edwin Peebles|James Peebles]]
|-
|[[1994 in science|1994]]
|[[Vera Rubin]]
|-
|[[1995 in science|1995]]
|[[Robert Kraft (astronomer)|Robert Kraft]]
|-
|[[1996 in science|1996]]
|[[Gerry Neugebauer]]
|-
|[[1997 in science|1997]]
|[[Alastair Cameron]]
|-
|[[1998 in science|1998]]
|[[Charles Townes]]
|-
|[[1999 in science|1999]]
|[[John Bahcall]]
|-
|[[2000 in science|2000]]
|[[Donald Lynden-Bell]]
|-
|[[2001 in science|2001]]
|[[Wallace Sargent]]
|-
|[[2002 in science|2002]]
|[[George Wallerstein]]
|-
|[[2003 in science|2003]]
|[[George Wetherill]]
|-
|[[2004 in science|2004]]
|[[Martin Rees]]
|-
|[[2005 in science|2005]] 
|[[James E. Gunn (astronomer)|James E. Gunn]]
|-
|[[2006 in science|2006]]
|[[Bohdan Paczyński]]
|-
|[[2007 in science|2007]]
|[[David L. Lambert]]
|-
|[[2008 in science|2008]]
|[[Rashid Sunyaev]]
|-
|[[2009 in science|2009]]
|George W. Preston
|-
|[[2010 in science|2010]]
|[[Margaret J. Geller]]
|-
|[[2011 in science|2011]] 
|[[Sandra M. Faber]]
|-
|[[2012 in science|2012]]
|[[William David Arnett]]
|-
|[[2013 in science|2013]]
|[[Ken Freeman (astronomer)]]
|-
|[[2014 in science|2014]]
|[[George B. Field]]
|-
|[[2015 in science|2015]]
|[[Giovanni Fazio|Giovanni G. Fazio]]
|-
|[[2016 in science|2016]]
|[[Christopher McKee|Christopher F. McKee]]
|-
|[[2017 in science|2017]]
|[[Eric Becklin]]
|-
|[[2018 in science|2018]]
|[[Joseph Silk]]
|-
|[[2019 in science|2019]]
|[[Ann Merchant Boesgaard]]
|-
|[[2020 in science|2020]] 
|[[Scott Tremaine]]
|-
|[[2021 in science|2021]] 
|[[Nick Scoville]]
|-
|[[2022 in science|2022]]
|[[Richard Mushotzky]]
|-
|[[2023 in science|2023]]
|[[Frank Shu]]
|-
|[[2024 in science|2024]]
|[[Neta Bahcall]]
|-
|2025
|[[Marcia J. Rieke]]
|}

==See also==

* [[List of astronomy awards]]
* [https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/henry-norris-russell-lectureship Henry Norris Russell Lectureship]

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Devorkin2000">{{Citation
 | first1    = David H.
 | last1     = Devorkin
 | title     = Henry Norris Russell: dean of American astronomers
 | publisher = Princeton University Press
 | page      = 276
 | year      = 2000
 | isbn      = 0691049181
 | url       = https://books.google.com/books?id=hAE_6QX28qUC&pg=PA276
 | postscript= .
}}</ref>
}}

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