Frank Watson Dyson - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

  • Fellow of the Royal Society - 1901
  • President, Royal Astronomical Society - 1911–1913
  • Vice-president, Royal Society - 1913–1915
  • Knighted - 1915
  • President, British Astronomical Association, 1916–1918
  • Royal Medal of the Royal Society - 1921
  • Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific - 1922
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society - 1925
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire - 1926
  • Gold medal of British Horological Institute - 1928
  • President of the International Astronomical Union - 1928–1932
  • Between 1894–1906, Dyson lived at 6 Vanbrugh Hill, Blackheath, London SE3, in a house now marked by a blue plaque.
  • The crater Dyson on the Moon is named after him, as is the asteroid 1241 Dysona.

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