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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Miller, Frederic P.
Vandome, Agnes F.
McBrewster, John

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Astronomy & Space

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ISBN10: 6131823553
ISBN13: 9786131823558
Publisher: Alphascript Pub
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In the early years, more than one medal was often awarded in a year, but by 1833 only one medal was being awarded per year. This caused a problem when Neptune was discovered in 1846, because many felt an award should jointly be made to John Couch Adams and Urbain Le Verrier. A controversy arose and no award was made in 1847. The controversy was resolved by giving 12 testimonial awards in 1848 to various people including Adams and Le Verrier, and in 1849 awards resumed, with a limit of one per year. Adams and Le Verrier did not get their gold medals until 1866 and 1868, respectively. Adams, as President, presented Le Verrier with the medal. The practice of awarding one medal a year continued until 1963, although two medals were awarded in both 1867 and 1886 and in a few years no award was made. Since 1964 there have been two awards in most years, one for astronomy and one for geophysics.

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