The Clifford W. Holmes Award is presented annually near
Big Bear City, California
Big Bear City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California, United States along the east shore of Big Bear Lake and surrounded by the San Bernardino National Forest. It is northeast of the cit ...
, at the
RTMC Astronomy Expo to an individual for a significant contribution to popularizing
astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...
.
Established in 1978 by Richard Poremba as the Astronomy for America Award, it was renamed for
Clifford W. Holmes, the founder of the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC) in 1980.
Awardees
Recipients of the award are:
* 1978: Paul Zurakowski
* 1979: Arthur Leonard
* 1980: Robert E. Cox
* 1981: Richard Berry
* 1982: Dennis di Cicco
Dennis di Cicco (born 1950) is an American amateur astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets, who lives in New England.
He has discovered 60 numbered asteroids from his backyard observatory in Sudbury, Massachusetts (IAU code: IAU code#817, 8 ...
* 1983: John Dobson
* 1984: Jim Jacobson
* 1985: Arthur Leonard
* 1986: Bob Schalck
* 1987: Clyde Tombaugh
Clyde William Tombaugh (; February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American astronomer best known for discovering Pluto, the first object to be identified in what would later be recognized as the Kuiper belt, in 1930.
Raised on farms in ...
* 1988: Kevin Medlock
* 1989: David H. Levy
* 1990: Dick Buchroeder, ()
* 1991: Rick Shaffer
* 1992: Ashley McDermott
* 1993: John Sanford
* 1994: Donald C. Parker
* 1995: Don Machholz
Donald Edward Machholz (October 7, 1952 – August 9, 2022) was an American amateur astronomer who was credited with the discovery of 12 comets that bear his name.
Personal life and death
In 2014, he married photojournalist Michele Machholz ...
* 1996: Gil Clark
* 1997: Randall Wilcox
* 1998: Randy Johnson
* 1999: William Seavey
* 2000: Tom Cave
* 2001: Scott W. Roberts
* 2002: Ed Krupp
Edwin Charles Krupp (born November 18, 1944) is an American astronomer, researcher, author, and popularizer of science. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of archaeoastronomy, the study of how ancient cultures viewed the sky ...
* 2003: Steve Edberg
* 2004: Dean Ketelsen
* 2005: Mike Simmons
* 2006: Al Fink
* 2007: Dave Rodrigues
* 2008: Laura and Bob Eklund
* 2009: Don Nicholson
* 2010: David Crawford ()
* 2011: Robert Victor
* 2012: Robert D. Stephens
* 2013: Jim Benet
* 2014: Jane Houston-Jones
* 2015: Terri Lappin ()
* 2016: Randy and Pamela Shivak
See also
* List of astronomy awards
This list of astronomy awards is an index to articles about notable awards for contributions to astronomy. The list is organized by region and country of the sponsoring organization, but awards are not necessarily limited to people from that count ...
References
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The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an Observatory#Astronomical observatories, astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson (California), Mount Wilson, a peak in the San Gabrie ...
staff for motivating firefighters during the Station Fire: Hal and Susan McAlister, Dave Jurasevich and Larry Webster
External links
RTMC Astronomy Expo
Astronomy prizes