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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“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
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