The Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has awarded its highest honor, the Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal, for lifetime contributions to astronomy most years since 1898. Below is a list of Mount Wilson staff who have won this prestigious award with links to their biographies on the ASP web site.

• 1916 George Ellery Hale
  
  
• 1928 Walter S. Adams
  
  
• 1938 Edwin P. Hubble
  
  
• 1939 Harlow Shapley
  
  
• 1940 Frederick H. Seares
  
  
• 1946 Paul W. Merrill
  
  
• 1950 Alfred H. Joy
  
  
• 1953 Harold D. Babcock
  
  
• 1955 Walter Baade
  
  
• 1957 Ira S. Bowen
  
  
• 1961 Rudolph Minkowski
  
  
• 1963 Seth B. Nicholson
  
  
• 1969 Horace W. Babcock
  
  
• 1975 Allan R. Sandage
  
  
• 1984 Olin C. Wilson