George Ellery Hale Prize
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The George Ellery Hale Prize, or Hale Prize, is awarded annually by the Solar Physics Division
of the American Astronomical Society
for outstanding contributions over an extended period of time to the field of solar astronomy
. The prize is named in memory of George Ellery Hale
.
Past winners of the Hale Prize are:
Solar Physics Division
The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society , often referred to as simply the "Solar Physics Division" , is the primary trade organization of solar physicists in the U.S. It exists for the advancement of the study of the Sun and to coordinate of such research with other branches...
of the American Astronomical Society
American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC...
for outstanding contributions over an extended period of time to the field of solar astronomy
Solar astronomy
Solar astronomy is stellar astronomy of the sun.*Timeline of solar astronomy*Solar telescopes*List of solar telescopes*Coronagraph*Helioseismology-Sun size relative to its distance from Proxima Centauri:...
. The prize is named in memory of George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale
George Ellery Hale was an American solar astronomer.-Biography:Hale was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was educated at MIT, at the Observatory of Harvard College, , and at Berlin . As an undergraduate at MIT, he is known for inventing the spectroheliograph, with which he made his discovery of...
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Past winners of the Hale Prize are:
- 1978 Eugene N. Parker
- 1980 John Paul WildJohn Paul WildDr John Paul Wild AC CBE MA ScD FRS FTSE FAA was a British-born Australian radio astronomer and national science leader who served as chairman of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation 1978-1985.Paul Wild was born in Sheffield, England in 1923...
- 1982 John W. Evans
- 1984 Leo GoldbergLeo GoldbergLeo Goldberg was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and the directorships of several major observatories. He was president of both the International Astronomical Union and the American Astronomical Society...
- 1986 Peter A. SturrockPeter A. SturrockPeter Andrew Sturrock is a British scientist.An emeritus professor of applied physics at Stanford University, much of Sturrock's career has been devoted to astrophysics, plasma physics, and solar physics, but Sturrock is interested in other fields, including ufology, scientific inference and in...
- 1988 Cornelis de JagerCornelis de Jager-Education:He spent his school years in the Dutch East Indies. From 1939 to 1945 he studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at Utrecht University. On 13 October 1952 he obtained his Ph. D. with a thesis called 'The Hydrogen Spectrum of the Sun'...
- 1990 Richard N. Tousey
- 1992 Horace W. BabcockHorace W. BabcockHorace Welcome Babcock was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock.He invented and built a number of astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose the idea of adaptive optics. He specialized in spectroscopy and the study of magnetic fields of stars...
- 1994 Douglas O. Gough
- 1996 Raymond Davis Jr.Raymond Davis Jr.Raymond Davis, Jr. was an American chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate.-Early life and education:...
- 1998 Richard B. Dunn
- 1999 John W. Harvey
- 2000 Loren W. Acton
- 2001 Alan M. Title
- 2002 Eric PriestEric PriestEric Priest, FRSE, FRS, holds the Gregory Chair of Mathematics and is a Bishop Wardlaw Professor at St Andrews University....
- 2003 Robert F. Howard
- 2004 Robert P. Lin
- 2005 Spiro Antiochos
- 2006 Peter A. Gilman
- 2007 Mukul R. Kundu
- 2008 Hugh S. Hudson
- 2009 Neil R. Sheeley Jr.
- 2010 Marcia NeugebauerMarcia NeugebauerMarcia Neugebauer is a prominent American geophysicist who made important contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's pioneering research yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on its physics and interaction with comets.Neugebauer was a primary investigator of the...
- 2011 Henk Spruit