The Carl Sagan Memorial Award is an award presented jointly by the

American Astronautical Society Formed in 1954, the American Astronautical Society (AAS) is an independent scientific and technical group in the United States dedicated to the advancement of space science and space exploration. AAS supports NASA The National Aeronau ...

and

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to an individual or group "who has demonstrated leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the

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." The annual award, first presented in 1997, was created in honor of

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, p ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...

, astrobiologist and science popularizer,

Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including e ...

(1934–1996).

Recipients

Source
American Astronautical Society
*1997 Bruce Murray *1998 Wesley Huntress *1999

Ed Stone Edward or Ed Stone may refer to: * Edward Stone (natural philosopher) (1702–1768), English cleric and discoverer of active ingredient in aspirin * Edward Stone (slave trader), Edward Stone (1782–1826), American interstate slave trader, based in ...

*2000

Arnauld Nicogossian Arnauld is a surname and a masculine given name. It may refer to: Surname * Agnès Arnauld (1593–1672), abbess of the Abbey of Port-Royal, near Paris, and a major figure in French Jansenism * Antoine Arnauld (1612–1694), French Catholic theolog ...

*2001 Edward Weiler *2002 California and Carnegie Planet Search Team *2003

Roald Sagdeev Roald Zinnurovich Sagdeev (, ; born 26 December 1932) is a Russian expert in plasma physics and a former director of the Space Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He was also a science advisor to the Soviet President Mikhail Gorba ...

*2004

Steve Squyres Steven Weldon Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a ...

and the

Athena Team Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Roman mythology is the body of myths of ancient Rome a ...

*2005 Michael Malin *2006 Scott Hubbard *2007

Maria Zuber Maria T. Zuber (born June 27, 1958) is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and Presidential Advisor for Science and Technology Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zuber also serves as a trustee of Brown University. Zube ...

*2008

Lennard A. Fisk Lennard may refer to: *Lennard Freeman (born 1995), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League *Lennard Pearce (1915–1984), English actor *Dave Lennard (born 1944), English footballer *Henry Lennard (16th–17th century) ...

*2009 ''Award not offered'' *2010 ''Award not offered'' *2011

Charles Elachi Charles Elachi (born April 18, 1947
. ''Cedars Network''. Retrieved on February 20, 2008.) is a ...

*2012

Riccardo Giacconi Riccardo Giacconi ( , ; October 6, 1931 – December 9, 2018) was an Italian-American Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist who laid down the foundations of X-ray astronomy. He was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Biography Born in ...

*2013 Eileen K. Stansbery *2014

William J. Borucki William J. (Bill) Borucki (born 1939) is a space scientist who worked at the NASA Ames Research Center. Upon joining NASA in 1962, Borucki joined the group conducting research on the heat shield for Apollo program spacecraft. He later turned his a ...

*2015 Frank Cepollina *2016

Alan Stern Sol Alan Stern (born November 22, 1957) is an American engineer, planetary scientist and space tourist. He is the principal investigator of the ''New Horizons'' mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express. Stern has been involved ...

*2017 AURA "HST & Beyond" Committee (See

Alan Dressler Alan Michael Dressler (born 23 March 1948) 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''. Dressler wa ...

.) *2018 ''no award'' *2019 Michael W. Werner *2020 Leslie Livesay *2021 Nicola Fox

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Carl Sagan Memorial Award
Awards of the American Astronautical Society Astronomy prizes Carl Sagan {{sci-award-stub

Recipients

See also

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