Award in Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society in 1949 Klumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1984 Sandford Fleming Award from the Royal Canadian Institute in 1985 Rittenhouse Astronomical Society Silver Medal Award in 1967 The Centennial Medal of Canada in 1967 Honours and dedications Made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968, and promoted to Companion in 1976 – considered one of the highest honours in the nation. The asteroid 2917 Sawyer Hogg is named after her. The National Museum of Science in Ottawa Ontario is dedicated to Helen, as is the University of Toronto telescope at its Southern University observatory in Chile. In 2004, Hogg was posthumously inducted into the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame. The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada offers the Helen Sawyer Hogg scholarship in Astronomy to students who are enrolled in programs leading to graduate work in Astronomy. The value of the scholarship is $500. References External links Astronomy was Helen Hogg's lifetime work U.Toronto biography Biography Helen Sawyer Hogg Honored Out of Old Books: Essays on the History of Astronomy by Helen Sawyer Hogg Oral History interview transcript with Helen Sawyer Hogg 17 August 1979, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives Bibliography from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific The San Diego Supercomputer Center Presents Women in Science, A Selection of 16 Significant Contributors Helen Sawyer Hogg archival papers held at the University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services Further reading Obituaries JAVSO 22 (1993) 83 JRASC 86 (1993) 351 PASP 105 (1993) 1369 1905 births 1993 deaths American women astronomers 20th-century Canadian astronomers Companions of the Order of Canada Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada People from Lowell, Massachusetts American emigrants to Canada Mount Holyoke College alumni Recipients of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy Radcliffe College alumni University of Toronto faculty Sandford Fleming Award recipients 20th-century American women scientists Harvard College Observatory people American women academics Presidents of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada