Allan Sandage

Co-discoverer of the Quasar (or QSO: Quasi-Stellar-Object). He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Illinois in 1953. He  has received numerous awards, including the Peter Gruber Cosmology Prize, the Tomalla Prize from the Swiss Physical Society, the Crafoord Prize from the Swedish Academy of Sciences, and gold medals from the Royal Astronomical Society, the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He has also received the Russell Prize from the American Astronomical Society, the Presidential National Medal of Science, and the Eddington Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society.