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. [1] The prize is named in honor of the cosmologist and astronomer Beatrice Tinsley.

Recipients[]

Source: American Astronomical Society

  • 1986 Jocelyn Bell Burnell (discoverer of first pulsar)
  • 1988 , Edward M. Purcell (discoverers of the 21 cm radiation from hydrogen)
  • 1990 Antoine Labeyrie (inventor of speckle interferometry)
  • 1992 Robert H. Dicke (inventor of the lock-in amplifier)
  • 1994 Raymond Davis, Jr. (inventor of neutrino detectors, first measurement of solar neutrinos)
  • 1996 Aleksander Wolszczan (discoverer of first pulsar planet)
  • 1998 Robert E. Williams (spectroscopy, particularly in gas clouds)
  • 2000 Charles R. Alcock (searched for massive compact halo objects)
  • 2002 Geoffrey Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt (developers of ultra-high-resolution Doppler spectroscopy, and discovers of extrasolar planets by radial velocity measurements)
  • 2004 (studies of the interstellar medium)
  • 2006 John E. Carlstrom (investigating the cosmic microwave background using the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect)
  • 2008 (astrometry experiments with the VLBI and the VLBA and his pioneering use of cosmic masers as astronomical tools)
  • 2010 (detecting thermal infrared emission from transiting extrasolar planets)
  • 2012 (ultra-high signal-to-noise observations related to time-domain photometry}
  • 2014 Chris Lintott (engaging non-scientists in cutting edge research)
  • 2016 Andrew Gould (development of gravitational microlensing)
  • 2018 Julianne Dalcanton
  • 2020 Krzysztof Stanek, Christopher Kochanek (for their innovative contributions to time-domain astronomy and, in particular, their leadership in the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN))

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Grants and Prizes". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 24 November 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.

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