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