Walter Sydney Adams - Honors

Honors

Awards and honors

  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1917)
  • Henry Draper Medal from the National Academy of Sciences (1918)
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1922
  • Bruce Medal (1928)
  • Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1947)

Named after him

  • The asteroid 3145 Walter Adams.
  • A crater on Mars.
  • The crater Adams on the Moon is jointly named after him, John Couch Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.

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