Brouwer Award (Division on Dynamical Astronomy)
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The Dirk Brouwer Award, usually known as the Brouwer Award, is awarded annually by the Division on Dynamical Astronomy
of the American Astronomical Society
for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of dynamical astronomy. The prize is named for Dirk Brouwer
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Brouwer Award winners:
Division on Dynamical Astronomy
The Division on Dynamical Astronomy is a branch of the American Astronomical Society that focuses on the advancement of all aspects of dynamical astronomy, including celestial mechanics, solar system dynamics, stellar dynamics, as well as the dynamics of the interstellar medium and galactic...
of the American Astronomical Society
American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC...
for outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of dynamical astronomy. The prize is named for Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer
Dirk Brouwer was a Dutch-American astronomer.He received his Ph.D. in 1927 at Leiden University in the Netherlands and then went to Yale University...
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Brouwer Award winners:
- 1976 Victor SzebehelyVictor SzebehelyVictor G. Szebehely was a key figure in the development and success of the Apollo program.Szebehely was born in Budapest, Hungary. He went to the United States in 1947 and became a naturalized citizen in 1956...
- 1978 No award
- 1979 Paul HergetPaul HergetPaul Herget was an American astronomer.Herget taught astronomy at the University of Cincinnati. He was a pioneer in the use of machine methods, and eventually digital computers, in the solving of scientific and specifically astronomical problems .During World War II he applied these same talents...
- 1980 Boris Garfinkel
- 1981 George Contopoulos
- 1982 Walter Fricke
- 1983 Michel C. Henon
- 1984 Andre Deprit
- 1985 Peter GoldreichPeter GoldreichPeter Goldreich is an American astrophysicist whose research focuses on celestial mechanics, planetary rings, helioseismology and neutron stars. He is currently the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics at California Institute of Technology. Since 2005 he has also been a...
- 1986 No award
- 1987 Irwin I. ShapiroIrwin I. ShapiroIrwin I. Shapiro is an American astrophysicist. Since 1982, he has been a professor at Harvard University. Shapiro was director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1982 to 2004.- Biography :Irwin Shapiro was born in New York City in 1929...
- 1988 William Kaula
- 1989 Yoshihide Kozai
- 1990 Donald Lynden-BellDonald Lynden-BellDonald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS is an English astrophysicist, best known for his theories that galaxies contain massive black holes at their centre, and that such black holes are the principal source of energy in quasars. He was a co-recipient, with Maarten Schmidt, of the inaugural Kavli Prize for...
- 1991 Martin SchwarzschildMartin SchwarzschildMartin Schwarzschild was a German American astronomer. He was the son of famed astrophysicist Karl Schwarzschild and the nephew of the Swiss astrophysicist Robert Emden.-Biography:...
- 1992 Stanton Peale
- 1993 Alar ToomreAlar ToomreAlar Toomre is an Estonian-born astronomer and mathematician who immigrated to the United States in 1949. He is a professor of applied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
- 1994 Christopher Hunter
- 1995 Brian Marsden
- 1996 Frank ShuFrank ShuFrank Shu , is an astrophysicist, author and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley and University of California, San Diego and the university president of the National Tsing Hua University....
- 1997 Scott D. Tremaine
- 1998 Sverre Aarseth
- 1999 Vadim Anatol'evich Antonov
- 2000 E. Myles Standish
- 2001 Jack Wisdom
- 2002 James BinneyJames BinneyJames Jeffrey Binney, FRS, FInstP is a British astrophysicist. He is currently a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford, where he is head of the Sub-Department of Theoretical Physics as well as a Professorial Fellow at Merton College...
- 2003 William Ward
- 2004 John PapaloizouJohn PapaloizouJohn Christopher Baillie Papaloizou is a British theoretical physicist. Papaloizou is a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. He works on the theory of accretion disks, with particular application to the formation of planets. He...
- 2005 James Williams
- 2006 Jacques Laskar
- 2007 Simon WhiteSimon WhiteProfessor Simon David Manton White, FRS is a British astrophysicist. He is one of four directors at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.- Life :...
- 2008 Victor A. BrumbergVictor A. BrumbergVictor A. Brumberg is a theoretical physicist specializing in relativistic celestial mechanics and astrometry. He once worked as a chief-scientist at the Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. He is noted for his work on celestial mechanics and ephemerides...
- 2009 Tim de ZeeuwTim de ZeeuwPieter Timotheus "Tim" de Zeeuw is a Dutch astronomer specializing in the formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies. He was educated at...
- 2010 Andrea MilaniAndrea Milani (mathematician)Andrea Milani Comparetti is an Italian mathematician based at Pisa University interested in topics as celestial mechanics, asteroids, Near Earth Objects , and the BepiColombo mission. Milani is an expert on asteroid impacts....
- 2011 Lia Athanassoula