Valz Prize

History

List of Valz Prize winners

• 1877 – Paul Henry and Prosper Henry – Charts to facilitate search for minor planets
• 1878 – Julius Schmidt – Selenographic work
• 1879 – Étienne Trouvelot – Work on Jupiter, Saturn, and Mars
• 1880 – Wilhelm Tempel – Discovery of twenty comets
• 1881 – David Gill – Work on the determination of the parallax of the Sun
• 1882 – William Huggins – Applications of photography to the study of the spectra of celestial bodies
• 1882 – Luiz Cruls – Spectral studies of the Great Comet of 1882
• 1883 – Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan – Discoveries of nebulae
• 1884 – Friedrich Karl Ginzel – Work on the eclipses of the Sun
• 1885 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer – Work on sunspots
• 1886 – Camille Guillaume Bigourdan – Research on the problem of personal error
• 1887 – Ernest Perigaud – Investigation of the meridian instruments of the Paris Observatory
• 1888 – Edward Charles Pickering – Photometric work on stellar magnitude
• 1889 – Auguste Charlois – Astronomical work on orbits of seven asteroids
• 1890 – S. de Glasenapp – Study on the double stars appearing in the Pulkovo Catalog
• 1891 – Hermann Carl Vogel – Research in spectroscopy
• 1892 – Pierre Puiseux – Entirety of his work, including that on the constant of aberration
• 1893 – Adolf Berberich – Calculations of orbits of double stars, comets, and planets
• 1894 – Jean Coniel – Calculations of asteroid orbits
• 1895 – William Frederick Denning – Work on meteors and discoveries of comets
• 1896 – Joseph Bossert – Catalog of 3,950 stars
• 1897 – Louis Fabry – Research on orbits of comets
• 1898 – Élie Colin – Research on astronomy and geodesy, especially latitude
• 1899 – Magnus Nyrén – Sidereal astronomy and observations on the meridian
• 1900 – Aloys Verschaffel – Meridian observations and catalog
• 1901 – Charles André – Treatise on
• 1902 – Ernst Hartwig – Heliometer observations and work on variable stars
• 1903 – Alphonse Borrelly – Discoveries of comets
• 1904 – Campos Rodrigues – Determination of solar parallax by means of the asteroid Eros
• 1905 – Michel Giacobini – discovery of ten comets
• 1906 – Johann Palisa – Entirety of his astronomical research
• 1907 – Michel Giacobini – Astronomical work
• 1908 – Michel Luizet – Work on variable stars
• 1909 – Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel – Entirety of his astronomical work
• 1910 – Stéphane Javelle – Works on nebulae and comets
• 1911 – Charlemagne Rambaud – Astronomical work
• 1912 – Alexandre Schaumasse – Comet discoveries
• 1913 – Alfred Fowler – Work on the principal series of hydrogen lines
• 1914 – Pierre Salet – Research on polarization phenomena
• 1914 – Stanislas Chevalier – Research on the Sun
• 1915 – Armand Lambert – Work as an observer and in applied mathematics
• 1916 – Giovanni Boccardi – Research on variation of latitude; discovery of a sensible inequality in the semi-lunar period
• 1917 – Alexandre Schaumasse – Discovery of comet 1917b
• 1918 – Frédéric Sy – Entirety of his astronomical work
• 1919 – Felix Boquet – Entirety of his scientific work
• 1920 – Ernest Maubant – Calculation of perturbations of Tempel-Swift Comet
• 1921 – Jean Trousset – Research on double stars, the errors of divided circles, and studies of Jupiter's moon, Pasiphae
• 1922 – Jean François Chazy – Papers on the three-body problem
• 1923 – Walter Sydney Adams – Work on Solar and stellar spectroscopy
• 1924 – no award
• 1925 – Vojislav Michkovitch – Work on Stellar statistics
• 1926 – Frank Schlesinger – Astronomical work, especially for work on the stellar parallax
• 1927 – Lucien d'Azambuja – Work on sunspots, solar flares, and the solar chromosphere
• 1928 – George Van Biesbroeck – Entirety of his astronomical work
• 1929 – Louis Dominique Joseph Armand Dunoyer de Segonzac – Research on spirit levels and on photoelectric cells
• 1930 – Gilbert Rougier – Work on photoelectric cells
• 1931 – Henri Chretien – Invention of the anamorphic lens
• 1932 – Jean Dufay – Work on astronomical photometry
• 1933 – Henri Labrouste – Research into periodic solar phenomena
• 1934 – Ferdinand Quenisset – Observations on comets
• 1935 – Raymond Tremblot – For the entirety of his astronomical work
• 1936 – André Couder – Work on optical instruments
• 1937 – Maurice Burgaud – Work in Shanghai, China on terrestrial magnetism
• 1938 – Pierre Lacroute – Work in physical astronomy
• 1938 – Rene Bernard – Work in "the light of the night sky"
• 1940 – Jeanne Clavier – Work on a photographic map of the heavens
• 1941 – Junior Gauzit – Research in physical astronomy
• 1942 – Jean Rösch – Work in physical astronomy
• 1943 – Rose Sainturier – Work on double stars
• 1944-1945 – Not awarded
• 1946 – Raoul Goudey – Work on gravity
• 1947-1948 – Not awarded
• 1949 – Jean Delhaye – Work in stellar statistics
• 1950-1958 – Not awarded
• 1959 – Fernan Nahon – Work on stellar statistics and dynamics
• 1960-1968 – Not awarded
• 1969 – André Baranne – Work on optical astronomy
• 1970 – Not awarded