Valz Prize

 ( Awards Of The French Academy Of Sciences ) 

Save for 1924, the French Academy of Sciences awarded the Valz Prize annually from 1877 to 1943. After 1943, the prize was awarded only sporadically (only once per decade from 1950 to 1970). In 1970, the Valz Prize was combined with the Lalande Prize to create the Lalande-Valz Prize, which continued to be awarded through 1996. In 1997, that prize was combined with numerous other Academy prizes to create the Grande Médaille.

• 1877 – Paul Henry and Prosper Henry (joint award) – Charts to facilitate search for minor planets
• 1878 – Julius Schmidt – Selenography 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 – Luis Cruls – Spectral studies of the Great Comet of 1882
• 1883 – Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan – Discoveries of
• 1884 – Friedrich Karl Ginzel – Work on the Solar eclipse
• 1885 – Friedrich Wilhelm Gustav Spörer – Work on sunspots
  Patrick Moore (1968). 9780393062762, W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393062762
• 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 – Sergey Glazenap – Study on the appearing in the Pulkovo Star catalogue
• 1891 – Hermann Carl Vogel – Research in spectroscopy
• 1892 – Pierre Puiseux – Entirety of his work, including that on the constant of aberration
  Thomas Klöti (2025). 9780387310220, Springer. ISBN 9780387310220
• 1893 – Adolf Berberich – Calculations of orbits of double stars, comets, and Planet
• 1894 – Jean Coniel – Calculations of asteroid orbits
• 1895 – William Frederick Denning – Work on meteors and discoveries of comets
  Martin Beech (2025). 9780387310220, Springer. ISBN 9780387310220
• 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 Traite d'Astronomie Stellaire
• 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
  Anneliese Schnell (2014). 9781441999160, Springer. ISBN 9781441999160
• 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
  Françoise le Guet Tully (2007). 9780387304007, Springer. . ISBN 9780387304007
• 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 (C/1917 H1)
• 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 Setting circles, and studies of Jupiter's moon, Pasiphae
• 1922 – Jean Chazy – Papers on the three-body problem
• 1923 – Walter Sydney Adams – Work on Solar and stellar spectroscopy
• 1924 – no award
• 1925 – Vojislav Michkovitch (or Vojislav Mišković) – Work on Astrometry
• 1926 – Frank Schlesinger – Astronomical work, especially for work on the stellar parallax
• 1927 – Lucien d'Azambuja – Work on sunspots, solar flares, and the chromosphere
• 1928 – George Van Biesbroeck – Entirety of his astronomical work
• 1929 – Louis Dominique Joseph Armand Dunoyer de Segonzac – Research on 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 (née Rose Bonnet) – 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 awardedNo documentation can be found for 1966 and 1967.
• 1969 – André Baranne – Work on optical astronomy
• 1970 – Not awarded

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