- 1610: Galileo
- 1676: Ole Rømer
- 1687: Isaac Newton
- 1781: William Herschel
- 1838: Friedrich Bessel
- 1861: William and Margaret Huggins
- 1912: Henrietta Leavitt
- 1917 Einstein
- 1920: Harlow Shapley
- 1929 Edwin Hubble
- 1948: Ralph Alpher
- 1949: Fred Hoyle
- 1963: Maarten Schmidt
- 1964: Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson
- 1978: Vera Rubin and Kent Ford
- 1989: Margaret Geller and John Huchra
- 1992: John Mather and George Smoot
- 1995: Robert Williams
- 1998: Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt
- 2010: Wendy Freedman
1989 Activity: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
In addition to the service provided to astronomers, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey website provides spectacular images for the general public. Scroll through the marvelous images in the Archive Gallery at the following website. Enjoy not only the images but also the excellent brief notes on each object.
http://www.sdss.org/iotw/archive.html
For more activities you can do see: http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/teachers/