Lalande Prize
The Lalande Prize was an award for scientific advances in astronomy, given from 1802 through 1970 by the French Academy of Sciences.
The prize was named for, and endowed by, astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1801. After 1970 it was combined with the Benjamin Valz Foundation prize until 1996.
Winners
A partial list of Lalande Prize laureates includes:
- 1803 : Giuseppe Piazzi
- 1804 : Karl Ludwig Harding
- 1810 : Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 1811 : Friedrich Bessel
- 1817 : John Pond
- 1818 : Jean-Louis Pons
- 1825 : John Herschel, James South
- 1834 : George Biddell Airy
- 1835 : James Dunlop, Palon Heinrich Ludwig von Boguslawsky
- 1839 : Johann Gottfried Galle
- 1840 : Bremicker
- 1841 : no award
- 1842 : no award
- 1844 : Hervé Faye
- 1844 : Francis de Vico, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
- 1851 : John Russell Hind, Annibale de Gasparis
- 1852 : John Russell Hind, Annibale de Gasparis, Robert Luther, Jean Chacornac, Hermann Goldschmidt
- 1854 : Robert Luther, Albert Marth, John Russell Hind, James Ferguson and Hermann Goldschmidt
- 1855 : Jean Chacornac, Robert Luther and Hermann Goldschmidt
- 1856 : Jean Chacornac and Norman Pogson
- 1857 : Hermann Goldschmidt and Karl Christian Bruhns
- 1858 : A. Laurent, Hermann Goldschmidt, George Mary Searle, Horace Parnell Tuttle, August Winnecke and Giovanni Battista Donati
- 1860 : Robert Luther
- 1861 : Ernst Wilhelm Tempel, Robert Luther and Hermann Goldschmidt
- 1862 : Alvan Clark
- 1864 : Richard Christopher Carrington
- 1866 : Warren de la Rue
- 1867 : Thomas Maclear
- 1868 : Giovanni Schiaparelli
- 1869 : Jules Janssen
- 1870 : William Huggins
- 1876 : Johann Palisa
- 1878 : Asaph Hall
- 1882 : Lewis Swift
- 1883 : Guillaume Bigourdan
- 1888 : Joseph Bossery
- 1889 : François Gonnessiat
- 1891 : Guillaume Bigourdan
- 1892 : Edward Emerson Barnard
- 1893 : Léopold Schulhof
- 1894 : Stéphane Javelle
- 1895 : Maurice Hamy
- 1896 : Pierre Puiseux
- 1898 : Perrine, observatoire du Mont-Hamilton
- 1899 : William Robert Brooks
- 1900 : Michel Giacobini
- 1901 : John M. Thome
- 1903 : William Wallace Campbell
- 1906 : William Henry Pickering, Robert Grant Aitken, William Hussey
- 1908 : William Lewis Elkin
- 1911 : Lewis Boss
- 1912 : Hermann Kobold and Carl Wilhelm Wirtz
- 1913 : Jean Bosler
- 1914 : Joseph-Noël Guillaume
- 1915 : Lucien d'Azambuja
- 1916 : Jérôme Eugène Coggia
- 1919 : Vesto Slipher
- 1922 : Henry Norris Russell