Robert J. Trumpler Award

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).

Previous award winners

Source: Astronomical Society of the Pacific

• 1974 David Schramm, University of Texas at Austin
• 1975 J. Richard Gott, Princeton University
• 1976 Robert Hanson, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1977 John Black, Harvard University
• 1978 Typhoon Lee, University of Texas at Austin
• 1979 Gary Schmidt, University of Arizona
• 1980 Luis Rodriguez, Harvard University, and James Liebert, University of California, Berkeley
• 1981 Richard Kron, University of California, Berkeley
• 1982 Bruce Twarog, Yale University
• 1983 Donald Winget, University of Rochester, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1984 Deidre Hunter, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• 1985 Paul Hertz, Harvard University
• 1986 John Hill, University of Arizona
• 1987 Stephen Schneider, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 1988 Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona
• 1989 Donald Terndrup, University of California, Santa Cruz
• 1990 Charles Bailyn, Harvard University
• 1991 Fred Adams, University of California, Berkeley
• 1992 Qingde Wang, Columbia University
• 1993 Megan Donahue, University of Colorado at Boulder
• 1994 Joe Shields, University of California, Berkeley
• 1995 Julie Thorburn, University of Chicago
• 1996 Wayne Hu, University of California, Berkeley
• 1997 John Hibbard, Columbia University
• 1998 Luis Ho, University of California, Berkeley
• 1999 Adam Riess, Harvard University
• 2000 Scott Burles, University of California, San Diego
• 2001 Michael A. Pahre, California Institute of Technology
• 2002 Volker Bromm, Yale University
• 2003 Daniel E. Reichart, University of Chicago
• 2004 David Charbonneau, Harvard University
• 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
• 2009 Kevin Bundy, California Institute of Technology
• 2010 Robert Quimby, University of Texas
• 2011 Philip Hopkins, Harvard University
• 2012 Charles Conroy, Princeton University and Emily Levesque, University of Hawaii
• 2013 Gurtina Besla, Harvard University
• 2014 Brendan Bowler, California Institute of Technology

References

1. Robert J. Trumpler Award for an Outstanding PhD Thesis at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific website