Robert J. Trumpler Award
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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).
[edit] Previous award winners
- 1974 David Schramm, University of Texas at Austin
- 1975 J. Richard Gott, Princeton University
- 1976 Robert Hanson, UCSC
- 1977 John Black, Harvard University
- 1978 Typhoon Lee, University of Texas at Austin
- 1979 Gary Schmidt, University of Arizona
- 1980 Luis Rodriguez and James Liebert, Harvard and UC Berkeley
- 1981 Richard Kron, UC Berkeley
- 1982 Bruce Twarog, Yale University
- 1983 Donald Winget, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff University of Rochester and UCSC
- 1984 Deidre Hunter, University of Illinois
- 1985 Paul Hertz, Harvard University
- 1986 John Hill, University of Arizona
- 1987 Stephen Schneider, University of Massachusetts
- 1988 Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona
- 1989 Donald Terndrup, UCSC
- 1990 Charles Bailyn, Harvard
- 1991 Fred Adams, UC Berkeley
- 1992 Qingde Wang, Columbia University
- 1993 Megan Donahue, University of Colorado
- 1994 Joe Shields, UC Berkeley
- 1995 Julie Thorburn, University of Chicago
- 1996 Wayne Hu, UC Berkeley
- 1997 John Hibbard, Columbia University
- 1998 Luis Ho, UC Berkeley
- 1999 Adam Riess, Harvard University
- 2000 Scott Burles, UCSD
- 2001 Michael A. Pahre, California Institute of Technology
- 2002 Volker Bromm, Yale University
- 2003 Daniel E. Reichart, University of Chicago
- 2004 David Charbonneau, California Institute of Technology
- 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
[edit] References
- ^ Robert J. Trumpler Award for an Outstanding PhD Thesis at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific website
