The Clifford W. Holmes Award is presented annually near

Big Bear City, California Big Bear City is an unincorporated community 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 city of San Bernardino, and immed ...

at the

RTMC Astronomy Expo The RTMC Astronomy Expo was one of the major gatherings of amateur astronomers in the United States. History Founded by Clifford W. Holmes and the Riverside Astronomical Society, the RTMC Astronomy Expo began in 1969 as the Riverside Telescope M ...

to an individual for a significant contribution to popularizing

astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest ...

. 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: Astronomy Outreach
* 1978: Paul Zurakowski * 1979: Arthur Leonard * 1980:

Robert E. Cox Robert Edward Cox (March 12, 1917 – December 16, 1989) was an American optical engineer and a popularizer of amateur telescope making. He conducted the popular "Gleanings for ATMs" (Amateur Telescope Makers) column in ''Sky and Telescope'' mag ...

* 1981: Richard Berry * 1982: Dennis di Cicco * 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. He discovered Pluto in 1930, the first object to be discovered in what would later be identified as the Kuiper belt. At the time of discovery, Pluto was cons ...

* 1988: Kevin Medlock * 1989:

David H. Levy David Howard Levy (born May 22, 1948) is a Canadian amateur astronomer, science writer and discoverer of comets and minor planets, who co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 in 1993, which collided with the planet Jupiter in 1994. Biography L ...

* 1990: Dick Buchroeder, () * 1991: Rick Shaffer * 1992: Ashley McDermott * 1993: John Sanford * 1994: Donald C. Parker * 1995: Don 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 Robert D. Stephens (born 1955) is an American amateur astronomer and a prolific Photometry (astronomy), photometrist of minor planets at the Center for Solar System Studies , Rancho Cucamonga in California, United States. Career By profession, ...

* 2013: Jim Benet * 2014: Jane Houston-Jones * 2015: Terri Lappin () * 2016: Randy and Pamela Shivak

References

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Mount Wilson Observatory The Mount Wilson Observatory (MWO) is an astronomical observatory in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The MWO is located on Mount Wilson, a peak in the San Gabriel Mountains near Pasadena, northeast of Los Angeles. The observat ...

staff for motivating firefighters during the Station Fire: Hal and Susan McAlister, Dave Jurasevich and Larry Webster

External links

RTMC Astronomy Expo
Astronomy prizes

Awardees

See also

References

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