William Lassell

William Lassell

Nascimento	18 de junho de 1799 Bolton
Morte	5 de outubro de 1880 (81 anos) Maidenhead
Nacionalidade	Inglês
Prêmios	Medalha de Ouro da RAS (1849), Medalha Real (1858)
Campo(s)	Astronomia

William Lassell (Bolton, 18 de junho de 1799 — Maidenhead, 5 de outubro de 1880) foi um astrônomo amador inglês.^[1]

Descobriu Tritão, o maior satélite de Netuno, em 1846. Juntamente com William Cranch Bond foi o descobridor, em 1848, de Hiperião, um dos satélites de Saturno. Em 1851 Lassell descobriu Ariel, o satélite mais brilhante de Urano.

Foi um cervejeiro muito bem sucedido antes de se interessar por astronomia.

Referências

↑ Biografia (em inglês)

Precedido por
Edward Frankland e John Lindley

Medalha Real
1858
com Albany Hancock

Sucedido por
Arthur Cayley e George Bentham

Medalha de Ouro da Royal Astronomical Society (1824 – 2017)

Século XIX

Década de 1820	1824: Charles Babbage, Johann Franz Encke • 1826: John Herschel, James South, Wilhelm Struve • 1827: Francis Baily • 1828: Thomas Brisbane, James Dunlop, Caroline Herschel • 1829: William Pearson, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Heinrich Christian Schumacher

Década de 1830	1830: William Richardson, Johann Franz Encke • 1831: Henry Kater, Marie-Charles Damoiseau • 1833: George Biddell Airy • 1835: Manuel John Johnson • 1836: John Herschel • 1837: Otto August Rosenberger • 1839: John Wrottesley

Década de 1840	1840: Giovanni Plana • 1841: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel • 1842: Peter Andreas Hansen • 1843: Francis Baily • 1845: William Henry Smyth • 1846: George Biddell Airy • 1849: William Lassell

Década de 1850	1850: Otto Wilhelm von Struve • 1851: Annibale de Gasparis • 1852: Christian August Friedrich Peters • 1853: John Russell Hind • 1854: Karl Rümker • 1855: William Rutter Dawes • 1856: Robert Grant • 1857: Samuel Heinrich Schwabe • 1858: Robert Main • 1859: Richard Christopher Carrington

Década de 1860	1860: Peter Andreas Hansen • 1861: Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt • 1862: Warren De La Rue • 1863: Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander • 1865: George Phillips Bond • 1866: John Couch Adams • 1867: William Huggins, William Allen Miller • 1868: Urbain Le Verrier • 1869: Edward James Stone

Década de 1870	1870: Charles-Eugène Delaunay • 1872: Giovanni Schiaparelli • 1874: Simon Newcomb • 1875: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest • 1876: Urbain Le Verrier • 1878: Ercole Dembowski • 1879: Asaph Hall

Década de 1880	1881: Axel Möller • 1882: David Gill • 1883: Benjamin Apthorp Gould • 1884: Andrew Ainslie Common • 1885: William Huggins • 1886: Edward Charles Pickering, Charles Pritchard • 1887: George William Hill • 1888: Arthur Auwers • 1889: Maurice Loewy

Década de 1890	1892: George Darwin • 1893: Hermann Carl Vogel • 1894: Sherburne Wesley Burnham • 1895: Isaac Roberts • 1896: Seth Carlo Chandler • 1897: Edward Barnard • 1898: William Frederick Denning • 1899: Frank McClean

Medalha de Prata	1824: Karl Rümker, Jean-Louis Pons • 1827 William Samuel Stratford, Mark Beaufoy

Medalha de Reconhecimento	1848: George Biddell Airy • John Couch Adams • Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander • George Bishop • George Everest • John Herschel • Peter Andreas Hansen • Karl Ludwig Hencke • John Russell Hind • Urbain Le Verrier • John William Lubbock • Maximilian von Weiße

Século XX

Década de 1900	1900: Henri Poincaré • 1901: Edward Charles Pickering • 1902: Jacobus Kapteyn • 1903: Hermann Struve • 1904: George Ellery Hale • 1905: Lewis Boss • 1906: William Wallace Campbell • 1907: Ernest William Brown • 1908: David Gill • 1909: Oskar Backlund

Década de 1910	1910: Karl Friedrich Küstner • 1911: Philip Herbert Cowell • 1912: Arthur Robert Hinks • 1913: Henri-Alexandre Deslandres • 1914: Max Wolf • 1915: Alfred Fowler • 1916: John Dreyer • 1917: Walter Sydney Adams • 1918: John Evershed • 1919: Guillaume Bigourdan

Década de 1920	1921: Henry Norris Russell • 1922: James Hopwood Jeans • 1923: Albert Abraham Michelson • 1924: Arthur Stanley Eddington • 1925: Frank Dyson • 1926: Albert Einstein • 1927: Frank Schlesinger • 1928: Ralph Allen Sampson • 1929: Ejnar Hertzsprung

Década de 1930	1930: John Stanley Plaskett • 1931: Willem de Sitter • 1932: Robert Grant Aitken • 1933: Vesto Melvin Slipher • 1934: Harlow Shapley • 1935: Edward Arthur Milne • 1936: Hisashi Kimura • 1937: Harold Jeffreys • 1938: William Hammond Wright • 1939: Bernard Lyot

Década de 1940	1940: Edwin Powell Hubble • 1943: Harold Spencer Jones • 1944: Otto Struve • 1945: Bengt Edlén • 1946: Jan Hendrik Oort • 1947: Marcel Minnaert • 1948: Bertil Lindblad • 1949: Sydney Chapman

Década de 1950	1950: Joel Stebbins • 1951: Anton Pannekoek • 1952: John Jackson • 1953: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar • 1954: Walter Baade • 1955: Dirk Brouwer • 1956: Thomas George Cowling • 1957: Albrecht Unsöld • 1958: André-Louis Danjon • 1959: Raymond Lyttleton

Década de 1960	1960: Viktor Ambartsumian • 1961: Herman Zanstra • 1962: Bengt Strömgren • 1963: Harry Hemley Plaskett • 1964: Martin Ryle, William Maurice Ewing • 1965: Edward Bullard, Gerald Maurice Clemence • 1966: Ira Sprague Bowen, Harold Clayton Urey • 1967: Hannes Alfvén, Allan Rex Sandage • 1968: Fred Hoyle, Walter Munk • 1969: Albert Thomas Price, Martin Schwarzschild

Década de 1970	1970: Horace Welcome Babcock • 1971: Frank Press, Richard van der Riet Woolley • 1972: Hal Thirlaway, Fritz Zwicky • 1973: Francis Birch, Edwin Ernest Salpeter • 1974: Ludwig Biermann, Keith Edward Bullen • 1975: Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Ernst Öpik • 1976: William McCrea, John Ashworth Ratcliffe • 1977: David Bates, John Gatenby Bolton • 1978: Lyman Spitzer, James van Allen • 1979: Leon Knopoff, Charles Gorrie Wynne

Década de 1980	1980: Chaim Leib Pekeris, Maarten Schmidt • 1981: James Freeman Gilbert, Bernard Lovell • 1982: Riccardo Giacconi, Harrie Massey • 1983: Michael Seaton, Fred Whipple • 1984: Keith Runcorn, Jakov Seldovich • 1985: Thomas Gold, Stephen Hawking • 1986: George Edward Backus, Alexander Dalgarno • 1987: Takeshi Nagata, Martin Rees • 1988: Don Lorraine Anderson, Cornelis de Jager • 1989: Raymond Hide, Ken Pounds

Década de 1990	1990: James Dungey, Bernard Pagel • 1991: Vitaly Ginzburg, Gerald Joseph Wasserburg • 1992: Dan Peter McKenzie, Eugene Parker • 1993: Peter Goldreich, Donald Lynden-Bell • 1994: James Gunn, Thomas Reeve Kaiser • 1995: John Houghton, Rashid Sunyaev • 1996: Kenneth Creer, Vera Rubin • 1997: Donald Farley, Donald Edward Osterbrock • 1998: Robert Ladislav Parker, James Peebles • 1999: Kenneth Budden, Bohdan Paczyński

Século XXI

Década de 2000	2000: Leon Lucy, Robert Hutchison • 2001: Hermann Bondi, Henry Rishbeth • 2002: Leon Mestel, John Arthur Jacobs • 2003: John Norris Bahcall, David Gubbins • 2004: Jeremiah Paul Ostriker, Grenville Turner • 2005: Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge, Carole Jordan • 2006: Simon White, Stanley William Herbert Cowley • 2007: Leonard Culhane, Nigel Weiss • 2008: Joseph Silk, Brian Kennett • 2009: David Williams, Eric Priest

Década de 2010	2010: Douglas Gough, John Woodhouse • 2011: Richard Salisbury Ellis, Eberhard Grün • 2012: Andrew Fabian, John Campbell Brown • 2013: Roger Blandford, Chris Chapman • 2014: Carlos Frenk, John Zarnecki • 2015: Michel Mayor • 2016: John David Barrow, Philip England • 2017: Nicholas Kaiser, Michele Dougherty

Medalha Real. Laureados (1851 — 1900)

1851: William Parsons e George Newport • 1852: James Prescott Joule e Thomas Henry Huxley • 1853: Charles Darwin e John Tyndall • 1854: August Wilhelm von Hofmann e Joseph Dalton Hooker • 1855: John Obadiah Westwood e John Russell Hind • 1856: John Richardson e William Thomson • 1857: Edward Frankland e John Lindley • 1858: Albany Hancock e William Lassell • 1859: Arthur Cayley e George Bentham • 1860: Augustus Volney Waller e William Fairbairn • 1861: James Joseph Sylvester e William Benjamin Carpenter • 1862: Alexander William Williamson e John Thomas Romney Robinson • 1863: John Peter Gassiot e Miles Joseph Berkeley • 1864: Jacob Lockhart Clarke e Warren De La Rue • 1865: Archibald Smith e Joseph Prestwich • 1866: William Huggins e William Kitchen Parker • 1867: John Bennet Lawes, Joseph Henry Gilbert e William Edmond Logan • 1868: Alfred Russel Wallace e George Salmon • 1869: Augustus Matthiessen e Thomas Maclear • 1870: Thomas Davidson e William Hallowes Miller • 1871: George Busk e John Stenhouse • 1872: Henry John Carter e Thomas Anderson • 1873: George James Allman e Henry Enfield Roscoe • 1874: Henry Clifton Sorby e William Crawford Williamson • 1875: Thomas Oldham e William Crookes • 1876: Charles Wyville Thomson e William Froude • 1877: Frederick Augustus Abel e Oswald Heer • 1878: Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther e John Allan Broun • 1879: Andrew Ramsay e William Perkin • 1880: Andrew Noble e Joseph Lister • 1881: John Hewitt Jellett e Francis Maitland Balfour • 1882: John William Strutt e William Henry Flower • 1883: Thomas Archer Hirst e John Scott Burdon-Sanderson • 1884: George Darwin e Daniel Oliver • 1885: David Edward Hughes e Ray Lankester • 1886: Peter Guthrie Tait e Francis Galton • 1887: Alexander Ross Clarke e Henry Nottidge Moseley • 1888: Osborne Reynolds e Ferdinand von Mueller • 1889: Thomas Edward Thorpe e Walter Holbrook Gaskell • 1890: John Hopkinson e David Ferrier • 1891: Arthur William Rucker e Charles Lapworth • 1892: Charles Pritchard e John Newport Langley • 1893: Harry Marshall Ward e Arthur Schuster • 1894: Joseph John Thomson e Victor Horsley • 1895: John Murray e James Alfred Ewing • 1896: Archibald Geikie e Charles Vernon Boys • 1897: Richard Strachey e Andrew Russell Forsyth • 1898: John Kerr e Walter Gardiner • 1899: William Carmichael McIntosh e George FitzGerald • 1900: Alfred Newton e Percy Alexander MacMahon

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