Honors
The Robert J. Trumpler Award, awarded by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for an outstanding PhD Thesis in astronomy, is named in his honor.
The following celestial features are named after him:
- The crater Trumpler on the Moon.
- A crater on Mars.
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Famous quotes containing the word honors:
“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)
“He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“My heart’s subdued
Even to the very quality of my lord.
I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,
And to his honors and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)