The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society to a young (less than age 36)

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either ...

for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research. The prize is named after Newton Lacy Pierce, an American astronomer.

Pierce Prize winners

Source
AAS
* 1974 Edwin M. Kellogg * 1975 Eric Becklin * 1976

James Roger Angel James Roger Prior Angel (born February 7, 1941) is a British-born American astronomer. He is Regents Professor and Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. Education He graduated from St Peter's College, Oxford, ...

* 1977 Donald N.B. Hall * 1978 James M. Moran, Jr. * 1979 D. Harper * 1980 Jack Baldwin * 1981 Bruce Margon * 1982 Marc Davis * 1983 Alan Dressler * 1984 Marc Aaronson, Jeremy Mould * 1985 Richard G. Kron * 1986

Reinhard Genzel Reinhard Genzel http://royalsociety.org/people/reinhard-genzel/ Professor Reinhard Genzel ForMemRS (; born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and a ...

* 1987 Donald E. Winget * 1988 Sallie L. Baliunas * 1989

Harriet Dinerstein Harriet Dinerstein is an American astronomer. The American Astronomical Society honored her work by awarding her the Annie J. Cannon Prize in 1985. She also received the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in 1989. Dinerstein received her Bachelor of Scie ...

* 1990 Kristen Sellgren * 1991

Kenneth G. Libbrecht Kenneth G. Libbrecht (born June, 1958) is a professor of physics and department chairman at the California Institute of Technology. Biography Libbrecht received a B.S. in physics at Caltech in 1980. He was originally trained as a solar astronomer ...

* 1992 Alexei Filippenko * 1993 Arlin P.S. Crotts * 1994 ''No award'' * 1995 Andrew McWilliam * 1996 Michael Strauss * 1997

Alyssa A. Goodman Alyssa Ann Goodman (born July 1, 1962) is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, a ...

* 1998 Andrea Ghez * 1999 Dennis F. Zaritsky * 2000 Kirpal Nandra * 2001 Kenneth R. Sembach * 2002

Amy Barger Amy J. Barger (born January 18, 1971) is an American astronomer and Henrietta Leavitt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is considered a pioneer in combining data from multiple telescopes to monitor multiple wa ...

* 2003 Xiaohui Fan * 2004 Niel Brandt * 2005 Andrew Blain * 2006

Bryan Gaensler Bryan Malcolm Gaensler (born 1973) is an Australian astronomer based at the University of Toronto. He studies magnetars, supernova remnants, and magnetic fields. In 2014, he was appointed as Director of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Ast ...

* 2007 ''No award'' * 2008 Lisa Kewley * 2009 Joshua Bloom * 2010 Tommaso Treu * 2011 Gaspar Bakos * 2012 John A. Johnson * 2013 Jason Kalirai * 2014 Nadia L. Zakamska * 2015 Heather A. Knutson * 2016 Karin Öberg * 2017 Evan Kirby * 2018 Caitlin Casey * 2019 Daniel R. Weisz * 2020

Emily Levesque Emily Levesque (born 1984) is an American astronomer and assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She is renowned for her work on massive stars and using these stars to investigate galaxy formation. In ...

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Pierce Prize winners

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