Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
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The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize is awarded every other year by the American Astronomical Society
in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy
or astrophysics
of an exceptionally creative or innovative character. The prize is named in honor of the cosmologist and astronomer
Beatrice Tinsley
.
Tinsley Prize winners:
American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC...
in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy
Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the atmosphere of Earth...
or astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their interactions and behavior...
of an exceptionally creative or innovative character. The prize is named in honor of the cosmologist and 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...
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:...
.
Tinsley Prize winners:
- 1986 Jocelyn Bell BurnellJocelyn Bell BurnellSusan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, DBE, FRS, FRAS , is a British astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student she discovered the first radio pulsars with her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish. She was president of the Institute of Physics from October 2008 until October 2010, and was interim president...
(discoverer of first pulsar) - 1988 Harold I. Ewen, Edward M. Purcell (discoverers of the 21 cm radiation from hydrogen)
- 1990 Antoine LabeyrieAntoine Émile Henry LabeyrieAntoine Émile Henry Labeyrie is a French astronomer and holds since 1991 the "Observational Astrophysics" chair at the Collège de France....
(inventor of speckle interferometry) - 1992 Robert H. DickeRobert H. DickeRobert Henry Dicke was an American physicist who made important contributions to the fields of astrophysics, atomic physics, cosmology and gravity.-Biography:...
(inventor of the lock-in amplifier) - 1994 Raymond Davis, Jr. (inventor of neutrino detectors, first measurement of solar neutrinos)
- 1996 Aleksander WolszczanAleksander WolszczanAleksander Wolszczan is a Polish astronomer. He is the co-discoverer of the first extrasolar planets and pulsar planets.- Scientific career :...
(discoverer of first pulsar planet) - 1998 Robert E. Williams (spectroscopy, particularly in gas clouds)
- 2000 Charles R. AlcockCharles R. AlcockCharles Roger Alcock is a British born American astronomer. He is the current director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
(searched for massive compact halo objects) - 2002 Geoffrey MarcyGeoffrey MarcyGeoffrey W. Marcy is an American astronomer, who is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered, along with R...
, R. Paul ButlerR. Paul ButlerR. Paul Butler is an astronomer who searches for extrasolar planets.He received a BA and an MS from San Francisco State University, completing a Master's thesis with Geoffrey Marcy, and then completed his doctoral studies at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1993...
, Steven S. VogtSteven S. VogtSteven Scott Vogt is an American astronomer whose main interest is the search for extrasolar planets.He is credited, along with R. Paul Butler, for discovering Gliese 581 g, the first potentially habitable planet outside of our own solar system....
(developers of ultra-high-resolution Doppler spectroscopy, and discovers of extrasolar planets by radial velocity measurements) - 2004 Ronald J. Reynolds (studies of the interstellar medium)
- 2006 John E. Carlstrom (investigating the cosmic microwave background using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect)
- 2008 Mark ReidMark ReidMark Reid is a Scottish retired professional footballer who played as a left back. Reid made nearly 400 appearances in the Scottish and English Football Leagues between 1980 and 1993.-Career:...
- 2010 Drake Deming
External links
- Official website at the American Astronomical Society website