The Henry Norris Russell Lectureship is awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of a lifetime of excellence in astronomical research.

Past Russell Lectuers are:

• 1946 - Henry Norris Russell
• 1947 - Walter Sydney Adams
• 1948 - No award
• 1949 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• 1950 - Harlow Shapley
• 1951 - Jan Oort
• 1952 - No award
• 1953 - Enrico Fermi
• 1953 - Lyman Spitzer
• 1954 - No award
• 1955 - Paul Merrill
• 1956 - Joel Stebbins
• 1957 - Otto Struve
• 1958 - Walter Baade
• 1959 - Gerard P. Kuiper
• 1960 - Martin Schwarzschild
• 1961 - William W. Morgan
• 1962 - Grote Reber
• 1963 - William Alfred Fowler
• 1964 - Ira S. Bowen
• 1965 - Bengt Strömgren
• 1966 - Richard Tousey
• 1967 - Otto Neugebauer
• 1968 - John G. Bolton
• 1969 - Eugene N. Parker
• 1970 - Jesse L. Greenstein
• 1971 - Fred Hoyle
• 1972 - Allan Sandage
• 1973 - Leo Goldberg
• 1974 - Edwin Salpeter
• 1975 - George Herbig
• 1976 - Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
• 1977 - Olin C. Wilson
• 1978 - Maarten Schmidt
• 1979 - Peter Goldreich
• 1980 - Jeremiah P. Ostriker
• 1981 - Riccardo Giacconi
• 1982 - Bart Bok
• 1983 - Herbert Friedman
• 1984 - E. Margaret Burbidge
• 1985 - Olin J. Eggen
• 1986 - Albert Whitford
• 1987 - Fred L. Whipple
• 1988 - Gerard de Vaucouleurs
• 1989 - Icko Iben , Jr.
• 1990 - Sidney van den Bergh
• 1991 - Donald Osterbrock
• 1992 - Lawrence Aller
• 1993 - James Peebles
• 1994 - Vera Rubin
• 1995 - Robert Kraft
• 1996 - Gerry Neugebauer
• 1997 - Alastair Cameron
• 1998 - Charles Townes
• 1999 - John Bahcall
• 2000 - Donald Lynden-Bell
• 2001 - Wallace Sargent
• 2002 - George Wallerstein
• 2003 - George Wetherill
• 2004 - Martin Rees