Honors and Awards
Throughout his long and productive life he received may honors. This is a partial list.
- Gold Medal of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences (1910)
- Donohe Comet Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1926)
- Burr Prize from the National Geographic Society (1952)
- Price Valzer de l'Académie des Sciences Paris
- James Craig Watson Medal (1957)
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