Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize

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.

The prize is normally awarded every second year, but was awarded in 2021 out of the established sequence.

Recipients

Recipients of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize include: [2]

• 1986 Jocelyn Bell Burnell — discovery of first pulsar
• 1988 Harold I. Ewen, Edward M. Purcell — discovery of 21 cm radiation from hydrogen
• 1990 Antoine Labeyrie — speckle interferometry
• 1992 Robert H. Dicke — lock-in amplifier
• 1994 Raymond Davis, Jr. — neutrino detectors; first measurement of solar neutrinos
• 1996 Aleksander Wolszczan — first pulsar planet
• 1998 Robert E. Williams — astronomical spectroscopy, particularly in gas clouds
• 2000 Charles R. Alcock — search for massive compact halo objects
• 2002 Geoffrey Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt — ultra-high-resolution Doppler spectroscopy; discovery of extrasolar planets by radial velocity measurements
• 2004 Ronald J. Reynolds — studies of the interstellar medium
• 2006 John E. Carlstrom — cosmic microwave background using the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect
• 2008 Mark Reid — astrometry experiments with the VLBI and the VLBA; pioneering use of cosmic masers as astronomical tools
• 2010 Drake Deming — thermal infrared emission from transiting extrasolar planets
• 2012 Ronald L. Gilliland — ultra-high signal-to-noise observations related to time-domain photometry
• 2014 Chris Lintott — engaging non-scientists in cutting edge research
• 2016 Andrew Gould — gravitational microlensing
• 2018 Julianne Dalcanton — low-surface-brightness galaxies; Hubble Space Telescope surveys
• 2020 Krzysztof Stanek, Christopher Kochanek — time-domain astronomy; leadership in the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN)
• 2021 Bill Paxton — MESA software for computational stellar astrophysics[3]
• 2024 Dennis Zaritsky — innovative observations probing the structure and evolution of galaxies[2]

See also

• List of astronomy awards

References

1. "Grants and Prizes". American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 24 November 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2014.
2. "Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize". AAS.org. American Astronomical Society. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
3. Tasoff, Harrison (15 March 2021). "An Accidental Astrophysicist". The Current. UC Santa Barbara. Retrieved 31 May 2022.

External links

• Official website at the American Astronomical Society website