Prize Committees

Membership is open to all interested AAS members, regardless of their status or background.

The Society awards more than a dozen prizes, awards, and honors to deserving educators, scientists, and amateur astronomers. Members of prize, award, and honor committees are responsible for reviewing nominations and making recommendations for the AAS's annual prize and award recipients and the annual class of AAS Fellows.

List of Prize Committees:

• Annie Jump Cannon Award Committee
• Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize Committee
• Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award Committee
• Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award Committee
• Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics Committee
• Education Prize Committee
• George Van Biesbroeck Prize Committee
• Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy Committee
• Henry Norris Russell Lectureship Committee
• Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation Committee
• Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy Committee
• AAS Fellows Selection Committee

Members: The memberships of AAS prize committees are not shared.

Terms: Terms for all the prize committees are three years (July – June) and are renewable. The active review period begins in mid-July and ends in late October. Members may volunteer at any time.

Duties: The duties of AAS prize committee members and chairs can be found here: https://aas.org/grants-and-prizes/duties

To Volunteer: Members may volunteer to serve on a prize committee by signing up in the member portal. Volunteers will be contacted in the spring with a survey where they can indicate committee preferences and enter qualifications and relevant experience.