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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