The Harold C. Urey Prize is awarded annually by the

Division for Planetary Sciences The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) is a division within the American Astronomical Society (AAS) devoted to Solar System research. It was founded in 1968. The first organizing committee members were: Edward Anders, Lewis Branscomb, Josep ...

of the

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. The prize recognizes and encourages outstanding achievements in

planetary science Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of ...

by a young scientist. The prize is named after Harold C. Urey.

Urey Prize winners

* 1984

David J. Stevenson David John Stevenson (born 2 September 1948) is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well ...

* 1985 Larry W. Esposito * 1986

Jack Wisdom Jack Wisdom (born 1953) is an American planetary scientist and Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Rice University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology ...

* 1987

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 ...

* 1988 Jonathan I. Lunine * 1989 Christopher P. McKay * 1990 David J. Tholen * 1991 Richard P. Binzel * 1992 Jack J. Lissauer * 1993 Roger Yelle * 1994 Karen Jean Meech * 1995 * 1996 Heidi B. Hammel * 1997 Renu Malhotra * 1998 Erik I. Asphaug * 1999 Douglas P. Hamilton * 2000 Alessandro Morbidelli * 2001

Michael E. Brown Michael E. "Mike" Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), ...

* 2002 Brett J. Gladman * 2003

Robin M. Canup Robin M. Canup (born November 20, 1968) is an American planetary scientist. Her main area of research concerns the origins of planets and satellites. In 2003, Canup was awarded the Harold C. Urey Prize. In April, 2022, Canup presented the finding ...

* 2004

Jean-Luc Margot Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969) is a Belgian-born astronomer and a UCLA professor with expertise in planetary sciences and SETI. Career Margot has discovered and studied several binary asteroids with radar and optical telescopes. His discoveries ...

* 2005

David Nesvorný David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament. The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Damas ...

* 2006 Tristan Guillot * 2007 Francis Nimmo * 2008 ''no award'' * 2009

Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is an American Planetary science, planetary scientist known for studying Nebular hypothesis, planet formation, planetary geology, and materials science. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis in th ...

* 2010 Jonathan Fortney * 2011 Eric B. Ford * 2012 Alberto G. Fairen * 2013 Anders Johansen * 2014 Matija Ćuk * 2015 Geronimo Villanueva * 2016 Leigh Fletcher * 2017

Bethany Ehlmann Bethany List Ehlmann is an American geologist and a professor of Planetary Science at California Institute of Technology. A leading researcher in planetary geology, Ehlmann is also the President of The Planetary Society, Director of the Keck Ins ...

* 2018 Francesca DeMeo * 2019 Kelsi Singer * 2020 Rebekah Dawson * 2021 Lynnae Quick * 2022 Juan Lora * 2023

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* 2024 Katherine de Kleer

References

*{{cite web , url=http://dps.aas.org/prizes/urey , title=Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science , website=Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society , access-date=2015-01-12 Astronomy prizes American Astronomical Society

Urey Prize winners

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