Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
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The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is jointly awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society
and American Institute of Physics
for outstanding work in astrophysics
. It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman
.
The Heineman awardees are:
American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC...
and American Institute of Physics
American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics promotes science, the profession of physics, publishes physics journals, and produces publications for scientific and engineering societies. The AIP is made up of various member societies...
for outstanding work in astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...
. It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman
Dannie Heineman
Dannie N. Heineman was a Belgian-American engineer and businessman. He was the managing director and controling shareholder of the Belgian industrial multinational Sofina. He was a prolific sponsor of science especially through Heineman Foundation in medical sciences and awards in mathematical...
.
The Heineman awardees are:
- 1980 Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
- 1981 Riccardo GiacconiRiccardo GiacconiRiccardo Giacconi is an Italian/American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He is currently a professor at the Johns Hopkins University.- Biography :...
- 1982 P. James E. Peebles
- 1983 Irwin I. ShapiroIrwin I. ShapiroIrwin I. Shapiro is an American astrophysicist. Since 1982, he has been a professor at Harvard University. Shapiro was director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1982 to 2004.- Biography :Irwin Shapiro was born in New York City in 1929...
- 1984 Martin Rees
- 1985 Sandra M. FaberSandra M. FaberSandra Moore Faber is a University Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works at the Lick Observatory.In 1966, she obtained a B.A., with high honors, in physics from Swarthmore College....
- 1986 Hyron SpinradHyron SpinradHyron Spinrad is an American astronomer. His research has ranged from the study of planet atmospheres to the evolution of galaxies. As of 2010, he is an emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley.-Biography:...
- 1987 David L. Lambert
- 1988 James E. GunnJames E. GunnJames Edward Gunn is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy at Princeton University. Gunn's early theoretical work in astronomy has helped establish the current understanding of how galaxies form, and the properties of the space between galaxies...
- 1989 Carl E. HeilesCarl E. HeilesCarl Eugene Heiles is an American astrophysicist noted for his contribution to the understanding of diffuse interstellar matter through observational radio astronomy.-Biography:Heiles was born in Toledo, Ohio...
- 1990 Richard McCray
- 1991 Wallace L. W. SargentWallace L. W. SargentWallace Leslie William Sargent is an American astronomer. He is often known as Wal Sargent. Although now a U.S. citizen, he was born in Elsham, England. He received his Ph.D...
- 1992 Bohdan PaczyńskiBohdan PaczynskiBohdan Paczyński or Bohdan Paczynski was a Polish astronomer, a leading scientist in theory of the evolution of stars, accretion discs and gamma ray bursts....
- 1993 John C. MatherJohn C. MatherJohn Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure ".....
- 1994 John N. BahcallJohn N. BahcallJohn Norris Bahcall was an American astrophysicist, best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.-Early and family life:Bahcall was born in...
- 1995 Jerry E. NelsonJerry Nelson (astronomer)Jerry Earl Nelson is an American astronomer known for his pioneering work designing segmented mirror telescopes, which led to him receiving the 2010 Kavli Prize for Astrophysics....
- 1996 Roger A. Chevalier
- 1997 Scott D. Tremaine
- 1998 Roger BlandfordRoger BlandfordRoger David Blandford FRS is an astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
- 1999 Kenneth C. Freeman
- 2000 Frank ShuFrank ShuFrank Shu , is an astrophysicist, author and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego and the university president of the National Tsing Hua University....
- 2001 Bruce G. Elmegreen
- 2002 J. Richard Bond
- 2003 Rashid SunyaevRashid SunyaevRashid Alievich Sunyaev was born in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, on March 1, 1943 to a Tatar family, and educated at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Moscow State University . He became a professor at MIPT in 1974...
- 2004 Bruce T. DraineBruce T. DraineBruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist. He attended Swarthmore College from 1965 to 1969. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Ghana from 1969-71, where he taught secondary school physics and mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1978...
- 2005 George EfstathiouGeorge EfstathiouGeorge Petros Efstathiou FRS is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology at the University of Cambridge...
, Simon WhiteSimon WhiteProfessor Simon David Manton White, FRS is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.- Life :... - 2006 Marc Davis
- 2007 Robert KennicuttRobert KennicuttRobert Charles Kennicutt, Jr. FRS is an American astronomer. He is the Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Astrophysical Journal...
- 2008 Andrew FabianAndrew FabianAndrew Christopher Fabian, OBE, FRS is a British astronomer and astrophysicist. He is a Royal Society Research Professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and Vice-Master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He was the President of the Royal Astronomical Society from May 2008 through to 2010...
- 2009 Lennox L. Cowie
- 2010 Edward KolbEdward KolbEdward W. Kolb, usually known as Rocky Kolb, is a cosmologist and a professor at the University of Chicago. He has worked on many aspects of the big bang cosmology, including baryogenesis, nucleosynthesis and dark matter. He is author, with Michael Turner, of the popular textbook The Early Universe...
, Michael TurnerMichael Turner (cosmologist)Michael S. Turner is a theoretical cosmologist, who coined the term dark energy.He is the Bruce V. & Diana M. Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and was formerly the Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences for the US National Science Foundation... - 2011 Robert P. Kirshner
See also
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical PhysicsDannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics is an award given each year since 1959 jointly by the American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics. It is established by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman...
- List of prizes, medals, and awards
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