Lalande Prize

The Lalande Prize (French Prix Lalande ) is one of 1802, awarded by the French Academy of Sciences until 1970 award for astronomical research papers.

In 1801, Jérôme Lalande presented the Academy of Sciences a donation, to enable her to give each year a prize to the person " who has made the most remarkable observation or written the most useful for the progress of astronomy working in France or elsewhere. "This prize was awarded to the year 1970. He was then merged with the Foundation Benjamin Valz; the Lalande- Benjamin - Valz Prize was awarded to 1996. In 1997 it was merged with a number of other foundations to " Grande Médaille ".

Award winners

The following (incomplete ) table lists some of the winners on:

Giuseppe Piazzi Karl Ludwig Harding John Pond Jean-Louis Pons James Dunlop Palm Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawski Wilhelm Beer Grade measurement Francesco de Vico John Russell Hind Andrew Graham (astronomer) Annibale De Gasparis Hermann Goldschmidt Albert Marth A. Laurent George Mary Searle Horace Parnell Tuttle Giovanni Battista Donati Otto Lesser Wilhelm Tempel Alvan Graham Clark Giovanni Schiaparelli Pierre Janssen William Huggins Asaph Hall Lewis A. Swift Edward Emerson Barnard Charles Dillon Perrine William Robert Brooks Michel Giacobini William Wallace Campbell Lewis Boss Hermann Kobold Carl Wilhelm Wirtz Vesto Slipher Henry Norris Russell Jules Baillaud Daniel Barbier
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