Robert J. Trumpler Award

The Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is given annually to a recent recipient of the Ph.D degree whose thesis is judged particularly significant to astronomy.[1] The award is named after Robert Julius Trumpler, a notable Swiss-American astronomer (1886–1956).

Previous award winners

Source: ASP

• 1974 David Schramm, University of Texas at Austin
• 1975 J. Richard Gott, Princeton University
• 1976 Robert Hanson, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1977 John Black, Harvard University
• 1978 Typhoon Lee, University of Texas at Austin
• 1979 Gary Schmidt, University of Arizona
• 1980 Luis Rodriguez, Harvard University, and James Liebert, University of California, Berkeley
• 1981 Richard Kron, University of California, Berkeley
• 1982 Bruce Twarog, Yale University
• 1983 Donald Winget, University of Rochester, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1984 Deidre Hunter, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• 1985 Paul Hertz, Harvard University
• 1986 John Hill, University of Arizona
• 1987 Stephen Schneider, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 1988 Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona
• 1989 Donald Terndrup, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1990 Charles Bailyn, Harvard University
• 1991 Fred Adams, University of California, Berkeley
• 1992 Qingde Wang, Columbia University
• 1993 Megan Donahue, University of Colorado at Boulder
• 1994 Joe Shields, University of California, Berkeley
• 1995 Julie Thorburn, University of Chicago
• 1996 Wayne Hu, University of California, Berkeley
• 1997 John Hibbard, Columbia University
• 1998 Luis Ho, University of California, Berkeley
• 1999 Adam Riess, Harvard University
• 2000 Scott Burles, University of California, San Diego
• 2001 Michael A. Pahre, California Institute of Technology
• 2002 Volker Bromm, Yale University
• 2003 Daniel E. Reichart, University of Chicago
• 2004 David Charbonneau, Harvard University
• 2005 Jennifer Scott and Siming Liu, University of Arizona
• 2006 Steven Furlanetto, Harvard University
• 2007 Edo Berger, California Institute of Technology
• 2008 Anjum Mukadam, University of Washington
• 2009 Kevin Bundy, California Institute of Technology
• 2010 Robert Quimby, University of Texas
• 2011 Philip Hopkins, Harvard University
• 2012 Charles Conroy, Princeton University and Emily Levesque, University of Hawaii
• 2013 Gurtina Besla, Harvard University
• 2014 Brendan Bowler, University of Hawaii
• 2015 H. Jabran Zahid, University of Hawaii
• 2016 Rachael L. Beaton, University of Virginia
• 2017 Blakesley Burkhart, University of Wisconsin Madison
• 2018 Benjamin J. ("BJ") Fulton, University of Hawaii[2]
• 2019 K. Decker French, University of Arizona[3]

See also

• List of astronomy awards
• Prizes named after people

References

1. Robert J. Trumpler Award for an Outstanding PhD Thesis at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific website
2. "BJ Fulton Wins 2018 Robert J. Trumpler Award for 'Landmark' Exoplanet Discovery Using Keck Observatory". W.M. Keck Observatory. 2018-09-10. Retrieved 2018-09-11.
3. "Decker French receives prestigious award for early career astronomers". Carnegie Institution for Science. 24 July 2019. Retrieved 24 July 2019.