The Petrie Prize Lecture is an award given in alternate years by the
Canadian Astronomical Society
The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA; ) is a Canadian society of professional astronomers, founded in 1971 and incorporated in 1983. The society is devoted to the promotion and advancement of knowledge of the universe through research and e ...
to an outstanding
astrophysicist. The award commemorates the contributions to astrophysical research of the Canadian astronomer
Robert M. Petrie.
Prize Winners
Source
Canadian Astronomical Society
* 1970
Alastair G. W. Cameron
Alastair G. W. (Graham Walter) Cameron (21 June 1925 – 3 October 2005) was an American–Canadian astrophysicist and space scientist who was an eminent staff member of the Astronomy department of Harvard University. He was one of the founde ...
* 1971
Jesse Leonard Greenstein
* 1971
Carlyle Smith Beals
Carlyle Smith Beals, FRS (June 29, 1899 – July 2, 1979) was a Canadian astronomer.
Early life and education
Carlyle Smith Beals was born in Canso, Nova Scotia to Rev. Francis H. P. Beals and his wife, Annie Florence Nightingale Smith ...
* 1977
J. Beverley Oke
* 1979
Geoffrey Burbidge
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* 1981
Hubert Reeves
Hubert Reeves (July 13, 1932 – October 13, 2023) was a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
Early life and education
Reeves was born in Montreal on July 13, 1932, and as a child lived in Léry. Reeves attended Collège Jean- ...
* 1983
M. J. Plavec
* 1985
Charles Hard Townes
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* 1987
Henry Matthews
* 1989
James Peebles
* 1991
Peter B. Stetson
* 1993
Maarten Schmidt
Maarten Schmidt (28 December 1929 – 17 September 2022) was a Dutch-born American astronomer who first measured the distances of quasars. He was the first astronomer to identify a quasar, and so was pictured on the March cover of ''Time'' mag ...
* 1995
George Howard Herbig
* 1997
Alexei FilippenkoUC Berkeley page for Alexei Filippenko
* 1999 Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney Van den Bergh (born 20 May 1929) is a retired Dutch-Canadian astronomer.
Van den Bergh showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy. In addition to being interested in astronomy, he also like ...
* 2001 James E. Gunn
* 2003