Honors
Awards
- Rumford Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1913)
- Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences (1915)
- Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1941)
- Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1950)
- Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society (1956)
Named after him
- The crater Stebbins on the Moon
- Asteroid 2300 Stebbins
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“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.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“The sire then shook the honors of his head,
And from his brows damps of oblivion shed
Full on the filial dullness:”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)