Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy
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The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society
(AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a Ph.D., for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy. The awardee shall be invited to give a talk at an AAS meeting and is given a $5,000 honorarium.
From 1973 - 2004 it was awarded by the American Association of University Women
on advice from the AAS. The AAS resumed distribution of the award in 2005. The award is named in honor of American astronomer
Annie Jump Cannon
, and is the only award for a woman astronomer.
Annie Jump Cannon awardees are:
American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC...
(AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a Ph.D., for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy. The awardee shall be invited to give a talk at an AAS meeting and is given a $5,000 honorarium.
From 1973 - 2004 it was awarded by the American Association of University Women
American Association of University Women
The American Association of University Women advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. It was founded in 1882 by Ellen Swallow Richards and Marion Talbot...
on advice from the AAS. The AAS resumed distribution of the award in 2005. The award is named in honor of American astronomer
Astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist who studies celestial bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies.Historically, astronomy was more concerned with the classification and description of phenomena in the sky, while astrophysics attempted to explain these phenomena and the differences between them using...
Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C...
, and is the only award for a woman astronomer.
Annie Jump Cannon awardees are:
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| 1934 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -Further reading:*Rubin, Vera , "Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin" in OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th Century Women to Physics, Nina Byers and Gary Williams, ed., Cambridge University Press .... |
| 1937 | Charlotte Moore Sitterly Charlotte Moore Sitterly Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly was an American astronomer.Charlotte Moore was born in Ercildoun, Pennsylvania, a small village near Coatesville. She graduated from Swarthmore College in 1920 and went on to Princeton to assist Henry Norris Russell. During this time she worked at the Princeton... |
| 1940 | Julie Vinter Hansen Julie Vinter Hansen Julie Marie Vinter Hansen was a Danish astronomer.Vinter Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. While studying at the University of Copenhagen, she was appointed a computer at the University's observatory in 1915. In the pre-electronic era, computers were humans that worked doing hand... |
| 1943 | Antonia Maury Antonia Maury Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who published an important early catalog of stellar spectra.-Early life:Antonia Maury was born in Cold Spring, New York... |
| 1946 | Emma Vyssotsky Emma Vyssotsky Emma Vyssotsky , born Emma T. R. Williams in Media, Pennsylvania was an American astronomer.-Biography:She received a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard College in 1930... |
| 1949 | Helen Sawyer Hogg Helen Sawyer Hogg Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg, CC was a prolific astronomer noted for her research into globular clusters... |
| 1952 | Ida Barney |
| 1955 | Helen Dodson Prince |
| 1958 | Margaret Mayall Margaret Mayall Margaret Mayall was an American astronomer. She was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers from 1949 to 1973. In 1958 she won the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy. Her husband was Newton Mayall.-External links:... |
| 1962 | Margaret Harwood |
| 1965 | Erika Böhm-Vitense Erika Böhm-Vitense Erika Böhm-Vitense is an astronomer known for her work on Cepheid variables and stellar atmospheres. She received her doctorate from the University of Kiel in 1951 and is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington.... |
| 1968 | Henrietta Swope |
| Awarded by the AAUW with advice of AAS | |
| 1974 | Beatrice Tinsley Beatrice Tinsley Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley was a New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve with time.-Life:... |
| 1976 | Catharine Garmany Catharine Garmany Catharine "Katy" D. Garmany is an astronomer. She was the President of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and has done research on star formation. She was awarded the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy by the American Astronomical Society.-External links:... |
| 1978 | Paula Szkody Paula Szkody Dr. Paula Szkody is a professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington in Seattle. She specializes in cataclysmic variable stars, which are binary star systems that periodically undergo energetic outbursts... |
| 1980 | Lee Anne Willson |
| 1982 | Judith Young Judith Young Judith Young is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She won a bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Women's 100 m Backstroke S10 event. At the same Games, she won three silver medals in the Women's 100 m Breaststroke SB10 event, the Women's 100 m Butterfly S10 event and the... |
| 1984 | Harriet Dinerstein |
| 1986 | Rosemary Wyse Rosemary Wyse Rosemary F. G. Wyse, b. January 26, 1957 is a Scottish astrophysicist. She graduated from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1977 with a BSc in Physics and Astrophysics and obtained her PhD in Astrophysics at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University in 1983... |
| 1988 | Karen Jean Meech Karen Jean Meech Karen J. Meech is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in the University of Hawaii. Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their relation to the early solar system... |
| 1989 | Jacqueline Hewitt |
| 1990 | Claudia Megan Urry |
| 1991 | Jane Luu Jane Luu -Early life:Luu was born in 1963 in South Vietnam to a father who worked as a translator for the U.S. Army. Her father taught her French as a child, beginning her lifelong love of languages.... |
| 1992 | Elizabeth Lada |
| 1993 | Stefi Baum |
| 1994 | Andrea Ghez Andrea Ghez Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astronomer and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA. She received a BS in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987 and her Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology in 1992... |
| 1995 | Suzanne Madden |
| 1996 | Joan Najita |
| 1997 | Chung-Pei Ma |
| 1998 | Victoria M. Kaspi |
| 1999 | Sally Oey |
| 2000 | Alycia J. Weinberger Alycia J. Weinberger Alycia J. Weinberger is currently a staff member at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. She is the 2000 winner of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy and the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal of Astronomical Society of India for 2000 .... |
| 2001 | Amy Barger Amy Barger Dr. Amy J. Barger is an American astronomer whose discoveries have most concerned quasars, black holes, and other far distant objects. She helped show that the activity of black holes in nearby galaxies was greater and more recent than expected. She also worked with others on discoveries... |
| 2002 | Vassiliki Kalogera |
| 2003 | Annette Ferguson Annette Ferguson Annette Ferguson is a Scottish observational astronomer who specializes in the area of galaxy evolution. She is currently a Reader at the Institute for Astronomy, Edinburgh.... |
| 2004 | Sara Ellison |
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| 2006 | Lisa J. Kewley Lisa Kewley Lisa Kewley is a Hubble Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. She was raised in South Australia.... |
| 2007 | Ann Hornschemeier |
| 2008 | Jenny Greene |
| 2009 | Alicia M. Soderberg Alicia M. Soderberg Alicia Margarita Soderberg is an American astrophysicist who is an assistant professor of Astronomy at Harvard University and a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics whose research focuses on supernovae.... |
| 2010 | Anna Frebel |
| 2011 | Rachel Mandelbaum |