Categories: Astronomy prizes 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Georges-Henri Lemaître (July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and astronomer. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (November 19, 1918 – July 31, 2000) was a Dutch astronomer. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Horace Welcome Babcock (September 13, 1912 – August 29, 2003) was an American astronomer. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Robert dEscourt Atkinson (April 11, 1898 – October 28, 1982) was an astronomer, physicist and inventor. ... 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Hans Bethe Hans Albrecht Bethe (pronounced Bay-tuh; July 2, 1906 – March 6, 2005), was a German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1967 for his discovery of stellar nucleosynthesis. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Professor André Lallemand was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1962 for work on photomultipliers and the development of the electron camera. ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Allan Rex Sandage (Born June 18, American astronomer. ... Martin Schwarzschild (May 31, 1912 – April 10, 1997) was a German-American astronomer. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Richard Tousey (May 18, 1908 – April 15, 1997) was an American astronomer. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Rupert Wildt (June 25, 1905 – January 9, 1976) was a German-American astronomer. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Robert F. Christy was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1967. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Robert Hanbury Brown was a British astronomer and physicist born 31 August 1916 in Aruvankadu, India. ... Richard Q. Twiss (? – 20 May 2005) is famous for his work on the Hanbury-Brown and Twiss effect with Robert Hanbury Brown. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... Antony Hewish (born Fowey, Cornwall, May 11, 1924) is a British radio astronomer who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974 (together with fellow radio-astronomer Martin Ryle) for his role in the discovery of pulsars. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Chushiro Hayashi (林忠四郎) (born July 25, 1920) is a Japanese astrophysicist. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Dr Desmond George King-Hele was awarded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1971 for his work on the geophysical application of the study of the orbits of artificial satellites. ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Professor Paul Ledoux was awardded the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1972 for investigations into problems of stellar stability and variable stars. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Hawking as himself on Star Trek: The Next Generation Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS (born January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England) is one of the worlds leading theoretical physicists. ... Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose, OM, FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist and Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... There is another William Fowler who was a Scottish poet and uncle of William Drummond of Hawthornden William Alfred Willy Fowler (August 9, 1911 – March 14, 1995) was an American astrophysicist. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Philip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is an Canadian-American astronomer. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Donald Lynden-Bell (born Dover, England April 5, 1935 – ) is a British astronomer, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Icko Iben is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Leon Mestel is a British astronomer who has won both the Eddington Medal and Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Alan H. Guth (born February 27, 1947) is a physicist and cosmologist. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...