Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is the highest award given by the RAS. The RAS Council have "complete freedom as to the grounds on which it is awarded" and as such it can be awarded for any reason. Past awards have been given for "outstanding personal researches in the fields of astronomy and geophysics" as well as general contributions to astronomy and geophysics "that may be made through leadership in research programmes, through education and through scientific administration". It has been awarded both for research that has taken a lifetime (it has most frequently been given to recognise an extraordinary lifetime achievement) and for specific pieces of research.
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award received: Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Albert Einstein
German-born theoretical physicist; developer of the theory of relativity (1879–1955)
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21Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
book by Albert Einstein
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author: Albert Einstein
1956
The Evolution of Physics
book by Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld
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author: Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld
1938
Why War?
1933 paper co-authored by Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud
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author: Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud
1933
Articles
74On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies ( 1905 )
journal article by Albert Einstein, published 1905
author: Albert Einstein
Über die von der molekularkinetischen Theorie der Wärme geforderte Bewegung von in ruhenden Flüssigkeiten suspendierten Teilchen ( 1905 )
scientific article (publication date: May 1905)
author: Albert Einstein
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? ( 1935 )
scholarly article by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen published in 'Physical Review' in 15 May 1935
author: Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen
The Particle Problem in the General Theory of Relativity ( 1935 )
scientific article
author: Albert Einstein, Nathan Rosen
Author
Works
1Modern classical physics: optics, fluids, plasmas, elasticity, relativity, and statistical physics
book published in 2017
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author: Kip S. Thorne, Roger Blandford
2017
Articles
50A century of general relativity: Astrophysics and cosmology ( 2015 )
scientific article
author: Roger Blandford
Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar. ( 2018 )
scientific article published on 28 February 2018
author: Patrizia Caraveo, Igor Moskalenko, Colin J Clark, Matthew Kerr, Bruce Allen, Oliver Bock, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein, Michael Kramer, Lars Nieder, Markus Ackermann, Jean Ballet, Denis Bastieri, Elisabetta Bissaldi, Raffaella Bonino, Rolf Buehler, Regina Caputo, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Lynn R Cominsky, Denise Costantin, Filippo D'Ammando, Andrea de Luca, Leonardo Di Venere, Elizabeth C Ferrara, Yasushi Fukazawa, Piergiorgio Fusco, Fabio Gargano, Marcello Giroletti, Alice Harding, Guðlaugur Jóhannesson, Michael Kuss, Giovanni La Mura, Luca Latronico, Francesco Longo, Francesco Loparco, Michael N Lovellette, Pasquale Lubrano, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Mario N. Mazziotta, Aldo Morselli, Francesco de Palma, Massimo Persic, Riccardo Rando, Paul S Ray, Massimiliano Razzano, Pablo M Saz Parkinson, Carmelo Sgro', David Austen Smith, Diego F. Torres, Eleonora Troja, Roger Blandford
Jason Wu, Lucas Guillemot, Fernando Camilo, David Salvetti, David Anderson, Carsten Aulbert, Andres Cuéllar, Henning Fehrmann, Bernd Machenschalk, Marco Ajello, Guido Barbiellini, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Eugenio Bottacini, Johan Bregeon, Philippe Bruel, Sara Buson, Claudia Cecchi, Eric Charles, Alexandre Chekhtman, Stefano Ciprini, Sara Cutini, Rachele Desiante, Mattia Di Mauro, Niccolò Di Lalla, Cecilia Favuzzi, Anna Franckowiak, Stefan Funk, Dario Gasparrini, Nico Giglietto, Francesco Giordano, David Green, Sylvain Guiriec, Deirdre Horan, Shiki Kensei, Jian Li, Nestor Mirabal, Warit Mitthumsiri, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Maria Elena Monzani, Eric Nuss, Takashi Ohsugi, Nicola Omodei, Monica Orienti, Michele Palatiello, David Paneque, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Giacomo Principe, Silvia Rainò, Francesca Spada, Gloria Spandre, Paolo Spinelli, Giacomo Vianello, Kent Wood, Matthew Wood, Holger J Pletsch, Tyrel J Johnson, Shawn A Kwang, Elliott D Bloom, Terri J Brandt, Toby H Burnett, Rob A Cameron, Seth W Digel, Germán A Gomez-Vargas, Isabelle A Grenier, John W Hewitt, Jeffrey D Magill, Julie E McEnery, Peter F Michelson, Vaidehi S Paliya, Jeremy S Perkins, Troy A Porter, Roger W Romani, Eric J Siskind, Jana B Thayer, David J Thompson, Christian Beer, Luca Baldini, Stefan Larsson, Elena Orlando, Anita Reimer, Olaf Reimer
The ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite ( 2014 )
wetenschappelijk artikel
author: Gregory Brown, Hiroaki Sameshima, Maurice Leutenegger, Olivier Limousin, Makoto Yamauchi, Ciro Pinto, Jelle de Plaa, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Teruaki Enoto, Aurora Simionescu, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Motohide Kokubun, John P. Hughes, Timothy Kallman, Stefan Funk, Arvind Parmar, Claudia Megan Urry, Chris Done, Stephanie LaMassa, Stéphane Paltani, Roger Blandford, Ann Hornschemeier
Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steve Allen, Naohisa Anabuki, Lorella Angelini, Keith Arnaud, Makoto Asai, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Philipp Azzarello, Chris Baluta, Aya Bamba, Nobutaka Bando, Marshall Bautz, Thomas Bialas, Kevin Boyce, Laura Brenneman, Ed Cackett, Edgar Canavan, Maria Chernyakova, Meng Chiao, Paolo Coppi, Elisa Costantini, Jan-Willem den Herder, Michael DiPirro, Tadayasu Dotani, John Doty, Ken Ebisawa, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam Foster, Yasushi Fukazawa, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Kirk Gilmore, Matteo Guainazzi, Daniel Haas, Yoshito Haba, Kenji Hamaguchi, Atsushi Harayama, Isamu Hatsukade, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Takayuki Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Junko Hiraga, Kazuyuki Hirose, Akio Hoshino, Una Hwang, Ryo Iizuka, Kazunori Ishibashi, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Kosei Ishimura, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masayuki Itoh, Naoko Iwata, Naoko Iyomoto, Chris Jewell, Jelle Kaastra, Tuneyoshi Kamae, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Junichiro Katsuta, Madoka Kawaharada, Nobuyuki Kawai, Taro Kawano, Shigeo Kawasaki, Dmitry Khangaluyan, Caroline Kilbourne, Mark Kimball, Masashi Kimura, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Saori Konami, Tatsuro Kosaka, Alexander Koujelev, Katsuji Koyama, Hans Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Philippe Laurent, François Lebrun, Michael Loewenstein, Knox Long, David Lumb, Grzegorz Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Kazuo Makishima, Maxim Markevitch, Candace Masters, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan McCammon, Daniel McGuinness, Brian McNamara, Joseph Miko, Jon Miller, Eric Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kenji Minesugi, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Koji Mori, Hideyuki Mori, Franco Moroso, Theodore Muench, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Toshio Murakami, Richard Mushotzky, Housei Nagano, Ryo Nagino, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Yoshiharu Namba, Chikara Natsukari, Yusuke Nishioka, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Masaharu Nomachi, Steve O'Dell, Hirokazu Odaka, Hiroyuki Ogawa, Mina Ogawa, Keiji Ogi, Takaya Ohashi, Masanori Ohno, Masayuki Ohta, Takashi Okajima, Tsuyoshi Okazaki, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Frits Paerels, Robert Petre, Martin Pohl, James Pontius, F. S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Brian Ramsey, Rubens Reis, Christopher Reynolds, Claudio Ricci, Helena Russell, Samar Safi-Harb, Shinya Saito, Shin-ichiro Sakai, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Goro Sato, Makoto Sawada, Peter Serlemitsos, Hiromi Seta, Yasuko Shibano, Maki Shida, Takanobu Shimada, Peter Shirron, Cynthia Simmons, Randall Smith, Gary Sneiderman, Yang Soong, Lukasz Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoshi Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiroaki Takahashi, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Shin-ichiro Takeda, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Keisuke Tamura, Takayuki Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Makoto Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroshi Tomida, Yoko Tsuboi, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Tsuru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shutaro Ueda, Shiro Ueno, Shinichiro Uno, Eugenio Ursino, Cor de Vries, Atsushi Wada, Shin Watanabe, Tomomi Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Nicholas White, Dan Wilkins, Shinya Yamada, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Yamasaki, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Atsumasa Yoshida, Takayuki Yuasa, Irina Zhuravleva, Abderahmen Zoghbi, John ZuHone
The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission ( 2013 )
scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal
author: Varun Bhalerao, Stephen Thorsett, Matteo Perri, Lorenzo Natalucci, Michael Pivovaroff, Simonetta Puccetti, Silvano Molendi, Matteo Bachetti, Ezequiel Treister, Allan Hornstrup, Franz E. Bauer, Marco Ajello, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Andrea Comastri, Paolo Giommi, Claudia Megan Urry, Martin Elvis, Jonathan E. Grindlay, Eran Ofek, Daniel Stern, Roger Blandford
Fiona A. Harrison, William W. Craig, Finn E. Christensen, Charles J. Hailey, William W. Zhang, Steven E. Boggs, W. Rick Cook, Karl Forster, Brian W. Grefenstette, Yunjin Kim, Takao Kitaguchi, Jason E. Koglin, Kristin K. Madsen, Peter H. Mao, Hiromasa Miyasaka, Kaya Mori, Vikram R. Rana, Niels J. Westergaard, Jason Willis, Andreas Zoglauer, Hongjun An, Nicolas M. Barrière, Eric C. Bellm, Nicolai F. Brejnholt, Felix Fuerst, Carl C. Liebe, Craig B. Markwardt, Melania Nynka, Julia K. Vogel, Dominic J. Walton, Daniel R. Wik, David M. Alexander, Lynn R. Cominsky, Ann E. Hornschemeier, Victoria M. Kaspi, Greg M. Madejski, Giorgio Matt, David M. Smith, John A. Tomsick, David R. Ballantyne, Mislav Baloković, Didier Barret, W. Niel Brandt, Laura W. Brenneman, James Chiang, Deepto Chakrabarty, Jerome Chenevez, Francois Dufour, Andrew C. Fabian, Duncan Farrah, Chris L. Fryer, Eric V. Gotthelf, David J. Helfand, Roman Krivonos, David L. Meier, Jon M. Miller, Patrick Ogle, Andrew Ptak, Stephen P. Reynolds, Jane R. Rigby
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John Frederick William Herschel
English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer
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