Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy
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The Newton Lacy Pierce
Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society
to a young (less than age 36) astronomer
for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research.
Pierce Prize winners:
Newton Lacy Pierce
Newton Lacy Pierce was an American astronomer.-Life:His father was an agronomist for the U.S...
Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually by 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...
to a young (less than age 36) astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research.
Pierce Prize winners:
- 1974 Edwin M. Kellogg
- 1975 Eric BecklinEric BecklinEric E. Becklin is an American astrophysicist, best known for his pioneering study of infra-red sources at the center of our galaxy....
- 1976 James Roger Angel
- 1977 Donald N.B. Hall
- 1978 James M. Moran, Jr.
- 1979 D. Harper
- 1980 Jack Baldwin
- 1981 Bruce Margon
- 1982 Marc Davis
- 1983 Alan DresslerAlan DresslerAlan Michael Dressler is an American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington, D.C.. Among his works is the popularization Voyage To The Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space....
- 1984 Marc AaronsonMarc AaronsonMarc Aaronson was an American astronomer.-Education:Aaronson was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BSc in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 at Harvard University with a dissertation on the near-infrared aperture photometry of galaxies...
, Jeremy MouldJeremy MouldJeremy R. Mould is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology .... - 1985 Richard G. Kron
- 1986 Reinhard Genzel Reinhard GenzelReinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist.-Life:Genzel studied physics at the University of Bonn where he did his PhD in 1978 and, in the same year, his OhD thesis on radioastronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy...
- 1987 Donald E. Winget
- 1988 Sallie L. Baliunas
- 1989 Harriet L. Dinerstein
- 1990 Kristen Sellgren
- 1991 Kenneth G. Libbrecht Kenneth G. LibbrechtKenneth Libbrecht is a professor of physics at Caltech.Libbrecht was originally trained as a solar astronomer, studying under Robert Dicke at Princeton and receiving his PhD in 1984. However, much of his recent research has focused on the properties of ice crystals, particularly the structure of...
- 1992 Alexei Filippenko Alexei FilippenkoAlexei Vladimir Filippenko is an American astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Filippenko received a Bachelor of Arts in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979 and a Ph.D...
- 1993 Arlin P.S. Crotts
- 1994 No award
- 1995 Andrew McWilliam
- 1996 Michael StraussMichael StraussMichael Strauss is a British Olympic fencer. He competed in the team sabre event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.-References:...
- 1997 Alyssa A. GoodmanAlyssa A. GoodmanAlyssa Ann Goodman is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University, a Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and the Founding Director of the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing. Goodman and her research group at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge,...
- 1998 Andrea GhezAndrea GhezAndrea Mia Ghez is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. She received a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1992...
- 1999 Dennis F. Zaritsky
- 2000 Kirpal NandraKirpal NandraKirpal "Paul" Nandra is a British physicist and the current director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.He was Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London....
- 2001 Kenneth R. SembachKenneth R. SembachKenneth R. Sembach is an American astronomer, for the Space Telescope Science Institute.-External links:*, Scientific Commons*, Google scholar...
- 2002 Amy BargerAmy BargerDr. Amy J. Barger is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other far distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected. She also worked with others on discoveries...
- 2003 Xiaohui FanXiaohui FanXiaohui Fan is an American astronomer, and professor at University of Arizona.He graduated from Nanjing University with a BS, 1992, from Chinese Academy of Sciences with a MS in 1995, and from Princeton University with a Ph...
- 2004 Niel BrandtNiel BrandtWilliam Nielsen Brandt is a distinguished professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University...
- 2005 Andrew BlainAndrew BlainAndrew Blain is an American astronomer, and assistant professor at California Institute of Technology.He is chairman of ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee .He is a member of the HerMES international consortium.-Works:...
- 2006 Bryan GaenslerBryan GaenslerBryan Malcolm Gaensler is an Australian astronomer and former Young Australian of the Year, currently based at the University of Sydney. He is best known for his work on magnetars, supernova remnants and magnetic fields.- Education :...
- 2007 "No award"
- 2008 Lisa KewleyLisa KewleyLisa Kewley is a Hubble Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. She was raised in South Australia....