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.[1] It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman.
Recipients[edit]
Source: AAS
- 1980 Joseph H. Taylor, Jr.
- 1981 Riccardo Giacconi
- 1982 P. James E. Peebles
- 1983 Irwin I. Shapiro
- 1984 Martin Rees
- 1985 Sandra M. Faber
- 1986 Hyron Spinrad
- 1987 David L. Lambert
- 1988 James E. Gunn
- 1989 Carl E. Heiles
- 1990 Richard McCray
- 1991 Wallace L. W. Sargent
- 1992 Bohdan Paczyński
- 1993 John C. Mather
- 1994 John N. Bahcall
- 1995 Jerry E. Nelson
- 1996 Roger A. Chevalier
- 1997 Scott D. Tremaine
- 1998 Roger Blandford
- 1999 Kenneth C. Freeman
- 2000 Frank Shu
- 2001 Bruce G. Elmegreen
- 2002 J. Richard Bond
- 2003 Rashid Sunyaev
- 2004 Bruce T. Draine
- 2005 George Efstathiou, Simon White
- 2006 Marc Davis[2]
- 2007 Robert Kennicutt
- 2008 Andrew Fabian
- 2009 Lennox L. Cowie
- 2010 Edward Kolb, Michael Turner
- 2011 Robert P. Kirshner
- 2012 Chryssa Kouveliotou[3]
- 2013 Rachel Somerville[4]
- 2014 Piero Madau[5]
- 2015 David Spergel,[6] Marc Kamionkowski[7]
- 2016 Wendy L. Freedman[8]
- 2017 Lars Bildsten[9]
- 2018 Vicky Kalogera[10]
- 2019 Edwin Bergin
- 2020 Christopher Kochanek
- 2021 Robert Lupton, David Weinberg[11]
- 2022 Norman Murray[12]
- 2023 Karen Meech
See also[edit]
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics
- List of astronomy awards
- List of physics awards
- Prizes named after people
References[edit]
- ^ Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, retrieved 20 October 2019
- ^ "AAS Hands Out Eight Awards; Seven Win Division Prizes". Physics Today. July 13, 2006. doi:10.1063/PT.4.1526.
- ^ "Astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou wins 2012 Dannie Heineman prize". Physics Today. February 3, 2012. doi:10.1063/PT.4.0729.
- ^ "Astrophysicist Rachel Somerville Wins 2013 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics". January 23, 2013.
- ^ "Astrophysicist Piero Madau Wins 2014 Dannie Heineman Prize". January 15, 2014.
- ^ "New Jersey Astrophysicist David Spergel Wins 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize". January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Baltimore Astrophysicist Marc Kamionkowski Wins 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize". January 16, 2015.
- ^ "Wendy Freedman to receive Heineman Prize for Astrophysics". January 20, 2016.
- ^ "AAS Announces Recipients of 2017 Prizes and Awards". American Astronomical Society. January 9, 2017.
- ^ "Vicky Kalogera wins 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics". Archived from the original on 2018-09-16. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
- ^ "Robert Lupton, David Weinberg Awarded 2021 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics". January 12, 2021.
- ^ "Norman Murray Awarded 2022 Dannie Heineman Prize for His Astrophysical Insights". February 1, 2022.