Simon Newcomb - Awards and Honours

Awards and Honours

  • Member, and holder of several offices, of the National Academy of Sciences (1869);
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1874);
  • Elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1875);.
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (1877);
  • Huygens Medal of the Haarlem Academy of Sciences (1878);
  • Editor of the American Journal of Mathematics (1885–1900);
  • Copley Medal of the Royal Society (1890);
  • Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur (1893);
  • President of the American Mathematical Society (1897–1898);
  • Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1898); and
  • Founding member and first president of the American Astronomical Society (1899–1905).
  • Asteroid 855 Newcombia is named after him.
  • The crater Newcomb on the Moon is named after him.
  • The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada has a writing award named after him.
  • the TIME SERVICE Building at the US Naval Observatory is named The Simon Newcomb Laboratory
  • The USS Simon Newcomb YMS 263 minesweeper was launched in 1942 - decommissioned in 1949

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