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42:. However, Kirchhoff died aged 63 on 17 October 1887, a few months before the award would have been announced. Rather than chose a new recipient for the award, the commission announced at the Academy's session of 26 December 1887 that the inaugural medal would be placed on his grave, in "supreme honour of the memory of this great scholar of Heidelberg". 745:, Popular Astronomy, Vol. 25, 1917, p.214-216. The Janssen Medal is mentioned on page 215, along with a note about two silver medals awarded to Fabry's colleagues at the Marseilles Observatory, 34:
The award was founded in 1886, though the first medal was not awarded until a year later. The commission formed to decide on the first recipient of the medal selected the German physicist
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relating to this award stated that the gold medal award would be made in 1906, but that an award of a silver medal would be made in 1905 to
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The award had been intended to be biennial, but was awarded in 1888 and again in 1889. A statement in the 1889 volume of
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clarified that the award would be presented annually for the first seven years, and then biennially from 1894 onwards.
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This gives all the Janssen Medal awards between 1887 and 1912 that were known to US astronomer
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Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences: Sciences mathématiques
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The citations for all these recipients are located in the corresponding issue of
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Article and photograph on the presentation of the 2007 award to Bernard Fort
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Becker, Barbara J. (3 January 2008). "Huggins, Sir William".
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to those who have made advances in this area of science.
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Laureats des Prix de l'Academie des Sciences en 2007
58:(created in 1897), an annual award presented by the 62:. Both awards are named for the French astronomer 781: 779: 661:The Janssen Medal award is mentioned on page 308. 629:The Janssen Medal award is mentioned on page 229. 1166: 1008:J. Delhaye received the Prix Jules-CĂ©sar Janssen 777: 775: 773: 771: 769: 767: 765: 763: 761: 759: 998:, A. Noels, The Messenger, vol. 54, p.10 (1988) 1143:Les Prix Thematiques en Sciences de l'Univers 756: 451:Les Prix Thematiques en Sciences de l'Univers 712:The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers 580:(online ed.). Oxford University Press. 1080:Serge Koutchmy received la mĂ©daille Janssen 1020:Observatory Reports: UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al 986:– i.e. the award was not a full gold medal. 788:Comptes rendus de l'AcadĂ©mie des sciences 693:Comptes rendus de l'AcadĂ©mie des sciences 671:Award of the JANSSEN Prize to Dr. LANGLEY 535: 533: 531: 529: 527: 525: 523: 494:Comptes rendus de l'AcadĂ©mie des sciences 474:Comptes rendus de l'AcadĂ©mie des sciences 443: 441: 48:Comptes rendus de l'AcadĂ©mie des sciences 1185:Awards of the French Academy of Sciences 521: 519: 517: 515: 513: 511: 509: 507: 505: 503: 705: 577:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 416:The list above is complete up to 2019. 1167: 573: 438: 500: 1180:French science and technology awards 606: 564:(1886–1960) the author of the note. 13: 978:citation refers to the award as a 16:Award for advances in astrophysics 14: 1206: 1161:(Paris Institute of Astrophysics) 1133: 837:William Hammond Wright, 1871–1959 54:This award is distinct from the 1107: 1085: 1073: 1062: 1051: 1036: 1025: 1013: 1001: 989: 968: 956: 934: 922: 900: 878: 866: 854: 842: 830: 818: 806: 794: 736: 699: 639:MacPherson, Hector Jr. (1905). 223:Francisco Miranda da Costa Lobo 38:for his work on the science of 676: 664: 632: 600: 567: 483: 463: 1: 1190:1886 establishments in France 965:, Volume 277, page 128 (1973) 929:Strömgren, Bengt Georg Daniel 888:Pol Swings – Curriculum Vitae 720:10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_714 431: 594:UK public library membership 69: 7: 419: 60:French Astronomical Society 10: 1211: 1195:Awards established in 1886 849:Walter S. Adams, 1876–1956 791:for the year of the award. 690:. See the 1905 volumes of 144:Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel 29:French Academy of Sciences 706:Fuentes, Patrick (2007). 150:Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky 1157:25 November 2015 at the 609:"Charles Augustus Young" 456:24 November 2009 at the 426:List of astronomy awards 175:William Wallace Campbell 996:Paul Ledoux (1914–1988) 949:5 December 2008 at the 915:7 February 2011 at the 271:Lucien Henri d'Azambuja 114:Samuel Pierpont Langley 27:award presented by the 708:"Jarry‐Desloges, RenĂ©" 682:The 1905 statement in 607:Poor, John M. (1908). 586:10.1093/ref:odnb/34039 360:1985 – Pierre Lacroute 235:Bernard Ferdinand Lyot 229:William Hammond Wright 138:Edward Emerson Barnard 96:Charles Augustus Young 1100:24 March 2010 at the 910:Jean-François Denisse 861:RUSSELL, Henry Norris 370:1990 – Pierre Charvin 319:Jean-François Denisse 217:George Willis Ritchey 893:9 March 2012 at the 714:. pp. 589–590. 497:(1889), pp.1095–1096 375:Henk C. 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astrophysics
French Academy of Sciences
Gustav Kirchhoff
spectroscopy
Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences
Prix Jules Janssen
French Astronomical Society
Pierre Janssen
Gustav Kirchhoff
William Huggins
Norman Lockyer
Charles Augustus Young
Georges Rayet
Pietro Tacchini
Samuel Pierpont Langley
George Ellery Hale
Henri Deslandres
Aristarkh Belopolsky
Edward Emerson Barnard
Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel
Aleksey Pavlovitch Hansky
Gaston Millochau
Annibale Ricco
Pierre Puiseux
William Wallace Campbell
Alfred Perot
René Jarry-Desloges
Charles Fabry
Stanislas Chevalier
William Coblentz

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