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Caroline Wilby Prize

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The prize was given for the first time in 1899 to Kate Oelzner Petersen, for her thesis On the Sources of the Nonne Prestes Tale. Other winners include the medievalist Lucy Allen Paton (1865-1951), for her thesis Morgain, la fée, a study in the fairy mythology of the middle ages, the historian Grace Lee Nute (1895-1990) for her thesis American foreign commerce (1825-1850) and also the astronomer Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-2007), for her thesis On the Spectroscopic Determination of Absolute Magnitudes…. Florence Shirley Patterson Jones's dissertation, Surface photometry of external galaxies won the Wilby Prize in 1941.

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