The Luigi G. Napolitano Award was an annual award conferred by the International Astronautical Congress (IAC). It was named after Luigi G. Napolitano (1928-1991), an Italian aerospace engineer who helped foster international space science research collaboration on Spacelab and established the European Low Gravity Research Association in 1979. The award was established in 1993 and presented annually to a young scientist, below 30 years of age, who contributed significantly to the advancement of the aerospace science and had published a paper at the International Astronautical Congress on the contribution. The award was conferred to a total of 30 people, with the last award made in 2022. Beginning in 2023, the IAC established the IAC Young Pioneer Award as the successor to the Napolitano award. The Luigi G. Napolitano Award was sponsored by the Napolitano family and consisted of the Napolitano commemorative medal and a certificate of citation presented by the Education Committee of the International Astronautical Federation. The International Academy of Astronautics also awards the Luigi Napolitano Book Award annually.
List of recipients 1993: Shin-ichi Nishizawa 1994: Ralph D. Lorenz 1995: Otfid G. Liepack 1996: W. Tang 1997: Guido W. R. Frenken 1998: Michael Donald Ingham 1999: Chris Blanksby 2000: Frederic Monnaie 2001: Noboru Takeichi 2002: Stefano Ferreti 2003: Veronica de Micco 2004: Julie Bellerose 2005: Nicola Baggio 2006: Carlo Menon 2007: Paul Williams 2008: Giuseppe Del Gaudio 2009: Daniel Kwom 2010: Andrew Flasch 2011: Nishchay Mhatre 2012: Valerio Carandente 2013: Sreeja Nag 2014: Alessandro Golkar 2015: Koki Ho 2016: Melissa Mirino 2017: Akshata Krishnamurthy 2018: Peter Z. Schulte 2019: Hao Chen 2020: Elizabeth Barrios 2021: Federica Angeletti 2022: Julia Briden
See also List of engineering awards List of physics awards List of space technology awards
External links International Astronautical Federation Award winners IAA 2020 Award winner 2021 Award winner 2022 Award winner
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