Dinsmore Alter - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
  • Guggenheim Fellowship scholarship, 1929-1930.
  • Honorary doctorate, Monmouth College, 1941.
  • G. Bruce Blair Award, 1958.
  • Pendray Aerospace Literature Award, 1965.
  • The crater Alter on the Moon is named after him.

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