Chapman Medal
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The Chapman Medal is a medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
, named in honor of British astronomer
Sydney Chapman
. It is awarded every other year, for investigations of outstanding merit in solar-terrestrial physics, including geomagnetism and aeronomy.
Royal Astronomical Society
The Royal Astronomical Society is a learned society that began as the Astronomical Society of London in 1820 to support astronomical research . It became the Royal Astronomical Society in 1831 on receiving its Royal Charter from William IV...
, named in honor of British astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
Sydney Chapman
Sydney Chapman (astronomer)
Sydney Chapman FRS was a British mathematician and geophysicist. His work on the kinetic theory of gases, solar-terrestrial physics, and the Earth's ozone layer has inspired a broad range of research over many decades....
. It is awarded every other year, for investigations of outstanding merit in solar-terrestrial physics, including geomagnetism and aeronomy.
Chapman Medalists
- 1973 D.H. Matthews and F.J. Vine
- 1976 Syun-Ichi AkasofuSyun-Ichi Akasofuis the Founding Director of the International Arctic Research Center of the University of Alaska Fairbanks , serving in that position from the center's establishment in 1998 until January 2007. Previously he had been director of the university's Geophysical Institute from 1986.-Background:Akasofu...
- 1979 Eugene ParkerEugene ParkerEugene N. Parker is an American solar astrophysicist who received his B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D. from Caltech in 1951. In the mid 1950s Parker developed the theory on the supersonic solar wind and predicted the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic...
- 1982 James W. Dungey
- 1985 Peter GoldreichPeter GoldreichPeter Goldreich is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a...
- 1988 D. Ian Gough
- 1991 S.W.H. Cowley
- 1994 Ian AxfordIan AxfordSir William Ian Axford, FRS, FRSNZ , was a New Zealand space scientist who was director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy from 1974 to 1990...
- 1998 M. Lockwood
- 2001 J. Bloxham
- 2004 R. Harrison
- 2006 S. Schwartz
- 2010 Prof. Bernard Roberts