Jackson-Gwilt Medal

The Jackson - Gwilt Medal (English: Jackson - Gwilt Medal ) is an astronomy prize of the Royal Astronomical Society.

The prize is awarded for the invention, improvement or development of astronomical instruments, or techniques, or for significant achievements in observational astronomy or for achievements in the study of the history of astronomy since 1897. The award is named after Hannah Jackson, born Gwilt.

Award winners

• 2014 George Fraser
• 2013 Vikram Dhillon
• Joss Bland- Hawthorn 2012
• 2011 Matt Griffin
• 2010 Craig Mackay
• 2009 Peter Ade
• 2008 Stephen Shectman
• 2006 Keith Taylor
• 2004 Pat Wallace
• 2001 John E. Baldwin
• 1998 Alexander Boksenberg
• 1995 Janet Akyuz Mattei
• 1992 Richard Stephenson
• 1989 Richard E. Hills
• 1986 David Malin
• Grote Reber 1983
• 1980 Roger Griffin
• 1977 Patrick Moore
• 1974 Geoffrey Perry
• 1971 Alan William James Cousins
• 1968 John Guy Porter
• 1963 George Eric Deacon Alcock
• 1960 F. M. Bateson and A. F. A. L. Jones
• 1956 R. P. de Kock
• 1953 John Philip Manning Prentice
• 1949 Algernon Montagu Newbegin
• 1946 Harold William Newton
• 1942 Reginald Lawson Waterfield
• 1938 Frederick J. Hargreaves and Percy Mayow Ryves
• 1935 Walter Frederick Gale
• 1931 Clyde William Tombaugh
• 1928 William Reid and William Herbert Steavenson
• 1923 A. Stanley Williams and William Sadler Franks
• 1918 T. E. R. Phillips
• 1913 Thomas Henry Espinell Compton Espin
• Philibert Jacques Melotte 1909
• 1905 John Tebbutt
• 1902 Thomas David Anderson
• 1897 Lewis Swift