George Darwin Lectureship Explained

George Darwin Lecture
Sponsor:	Royal Astronomical Society
Date:	^[1]
Location:	London
Country:	United Kingdom
Holder Label:	Named after
Holder:	George Darwin

The George Darwin Lectureship is an award granted by the Royal Astronomical Society to a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker' on the subject of Astronomy including astrochemistry, astrobiology and astroparticle physics.^[1] The award is named after the astronomer George Darwin and has been given annually since 1984.^{[1] [2]} The speaker may be based in the UK or overseas.

George Darwin Lecturers

Laureates of the award include:^{[1] [3]}

• 2024 Chiaki Kobayashi^[4]
• 2023
• 2022 Alan Fitzsimmons
• 2021 Filippo Fraternali
• 2020 Ofer Lahav
• 2019 Chris Done
• 2018 Stephen J. Smartt: "Kilonovae and the birth of multi-messenger astronomy" ^[1]
• 2017 Catherine Heymans : Observing the Dark side of our Universe^{[1] [5]}
• 2016 Michael Kramer : Probing Einstein's Universe and its physics - the joy of being curious^[6]
• 2015 Katherine Blundell : Rapid Evolution in Astronomy^[7]
• 2014 James S. Dunlop : The Cosmic History of Star Formation^[8]
• 2013 Eline Tolstoy : Galactic Palaeontology^[9]
• 2012 Andrew Collier Cameron: Winds, Tides and the Migration of Hot Jupiters
• 2011 Michael Turner : Connecting quarks to the cosmos
• 2010 Carlos Frenk : The Small-Scale Structure of the Universe
• 2009 Neil Gehrels : SWIFT and its results
• 2008 Alan Watson : The Birth of Cosmic Ray Astronomy on the Argentine Pampas
• 2007 Reinhard Genzel : The Massive Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way
• 2006 Michael Werner : The Spitzer Space Telescope: Probing the universe with Infrared Eyes
• 2005 Joseph Silk : The Dark Side of the Universe
• 2004 Mike Edmunds : The Elemental Universe
• 2003 Anneila Sargent : The Formation of Planetary Systems
• 2002 Ramesh Narayan : Evidence for the Black Hole Event Horizon
• 2001 Wendy Freedman : The Expansion Rate of the Universe
• 2000 Kip Thorne : Gravitational Waves: Opening a New Window onto the Universe.
• 1999 Geoff Marcy : Extrasolar Planets
• 1998 Michael Perryman : A Stereoscopic View of the Galaxy
• 1997 Simon White : The Formation of Galaxies
• 1996 Andrew Fabian : Broad Iron Lines from AGN: Test of Strong Gravity
• 1995 Bohdan Paczyński : Gravitational micro-lensing and the search for dark matter
• 1994 Scott Tremaine : Is the Solar System Stable?
• 1993 Riccardo Giacconi : Recent observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
• 1992 John Barrow : Unprincipled Cosmology
• 1991 Sandra Faber : How galaxies (probably) formed
• 1990 Andre Maeder : Massive Stars in Galaxies
• 1989 Roger Blandford : Gravitational Lenses
• 1988 Roger Tayler : The Sun as a Star
• 1987 Wal Sargent : Observing the evolution of large scale structure in the Universe
• 1986 Gerald Neugebauer : Infrared astronomy
• 1985 Robert Wilson: A perspective of ultraviolet astronomy
• 1984 Icko Iben : The life of an intermediate mass star - in isolation/in a close binary
• 1931 Willem de Sitter : Jupiter's Galilean satellites

See also

• List of astronomy awards

Notes and References

1. Web site: The George Darwin Lectures. Ras.ac.uk. 9 November 2018.
2. Web site: George Darwin Lectureship . . 2013-01-08. .
3. Web site: The George Darwin Lectures . . 2013-01-08.
4. Tonkin . Sam . Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2024 award winners . Royal Astronomical Society . 12 January 2024. 12 January 2024 . en.
5. Web site: Catherine Heymans: Observing the Dark side of our Universe. youtube.com.
6. Web site: RAS honours leading astronomers and geophysicist . RAS . 8 January 2015 . 9 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160720215653/http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/news-archive/264-news-2016/2760-ras-honours-leading-astronomers-and-geophysicists . 2016-07-20 . dead.
7. Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Friday 2015 November 13 at 16h 00m . . 136 . 1251 . 56–64 . 2016 . 2016Obs...136...56. . See page 62.
8. Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Friday 2015 January 9 at 16h 00m . . 135 . 1247 . 179–183 . 2015 . 2015Obs...135..179. . 25 January 2017. See page 182.
9. Meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society, Friday 2013 November 8 at 16h 00m . . 134 . 1240 . 93–99 . 2014 . 2014Obs...134...93. . 25 January 2017. See page 97.