AAS Division Awards

DPS is pleased to award the 2020 Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Science Journalism Award for distinguished popular writing to freelance writer Dr. Christopher Crockett for his article “How the Moon Landings Changed Our View of the Solar System” published in Knowable magazine on 16 July 2019. Learn More

The 2020 prize recipients were Emma Lieb (University of Colorado Boulder), Jorge Pérez-Hernández (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), Malena Rice (Yale University), and Yubo Su (Cornell University). (In the picture: Raynor L. Duncombe) Learn More

This prize is given for his fundamental contributions to spectroscopic and observational studies of the chemistry of the interstellar medium, star-forming regions, disks, comets, and exoplanetary atmospheres. Learn More

DPS is pleased to award the 2020 Harold Masursky Award for meritorious service to planetary science to Dr. Heidi B. Hammel (Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy) for her extensive and impactful service spanning nearly 30 years. Learn More

Dr. Hui Tian of Peking University, China, is awarded the 2020 Karen Harvey Prize for his ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet observations of the Sun and what they reveal about the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. Learn More

HAD is pleased to present the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize for Historical Astronomy to Ileana Chinnici for her work Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist (Brill 2019). Learn More

The award recognizes his calculations of atomic data and implementation of relativistic reflection models to understand accreting black holes and neutron stars. Learn More

Dr. Kazunari Shibata of Kyoto University, Japan, is awarded the 2020 George Ellery Hale Prize for his outstanding work on the properties and behavior of magnetized solar and astrophysical plasmas. Learn More

Professor Emeritus Lennart Lindegren will give a lecture at the 2021 52nd annual meeting of the DDA. Professor Lindegren has made a profound impact on the fields of astrometry and celestial mechanics. Learn More

DPS is pleased to award the 2020 Carl Sagan Medal to Dr. Ray Jayawardhana for outstanding contributions to the dissemination of planetary science research to the general public. Like Carl Sagan was, Dr. Jayawardhana is an active, accomplished academic scientist; he is now Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Learn More

DPS is pleased to award the 2020 Harold C. Urey Prize for outstanding achievement in planetary research by an early career scientist to Dr. Rebekah Dawson (Pennsylvania State University) in recognition of her groundbreaking research on planetary dynamics, the formation of planetary systems, and the characterization of exoplanets on close-in orbits. Learn More

In his decades-spanning career, Robert Smith has worked alongside astronomers and engineers to produce in-depth histories of the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, written a series of well-regarded books, and generated groundbreaking articles addressing the history of cosmology in the 19th and 20th centuries. Learn More

For their landmark image and analysis of the first shadow of a black hole. Learn More

For his article Ripple Effect, which appeared in the May 2019 issue of Discover Magazine. The award was announced via a press release issued on 13 May 2020. (In the picture: David N. Schramm) Learn More

DPS is pleased to award the 2020 Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary science to Professor Wing-Huen Ip at the Institute of Astronomy, National Central University, in Taiwan, for his contributions to advancements in comet plasma physics, solar-system dynamics, and magnetospheric interactions with atmospheres and solid surfaces. Learn More