Bernard Lyot - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Awards

  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1939)
  • Howard N. Potts Medal (1942)
  • Bruce Medal (1947)
  • Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1951)

Named for him

  • Lyot (lunar crater).
  • Lyot (Martian crater).
  • Minor planet 2452 Lyot.

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