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George Darwin Lectureship

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The George Darwin Lectureship is an award of the Royal Astronomical Society, named after the astronomer George Darwin. The George Darwin Lecture is given annually, by a 'distinguished and eloquent speaker', on a topic in astronomy or astrophysics. The speaker may be based in the UK or overseas.

George Darwin Lecturers

Lecturers as listed by the Royal Astronomical Society:

  • 2016 Michael Kramer
  • 2015 Katherine Blundell : Rapid Evolution in Astronomy
  • 2014 James S. Dunlop : The Cosmic History of Star Formation
  • 2013 Eline Tolstoy : Galactic Palaeontology
  • 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

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