The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society to a young (less than age 36) astronomer for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research. The prize is named after Newton Lacy Pierce, an American astronomer.
Pierce Prize winners Source: AAS
1974 Edwin M. Kellogg 1975 Eric Becklin 1976 James Roger Angel 1977 Donald N.B. Hall 1978 James M. Moran, Jr. 1979 D. Harper 1980 Jack Baldwin 1981 Bruce Margon 1982 Marc Davis 1983 Alan Dressler 1984 Marc Aaronson, Jeremy Mould 1985 Richard G. Kron 1986 Reinhard Genzel 1987 Donald E. Winget 1988 Sallie L. Baliunas 1989 Harriet Dinerstein 1990 Kristen Sellgren 1991 Kenneth G. Libbrecht 1992 Alexei Filippenko 1993 Arlin P.S. Crotts 1994 No award 1995 Andrew McWilliam 1996 Michael Strauss 1997 Alyssa A. Goodman 1998 Andrea Ghez 1999 Dennis F. Zaritsky 2000 Kirpal Nandra 2001 Kenneth R. Sembach 2002 Amy Barger 2003 Xiaohui Fan 2004 Niel Brandt 2005 Andrew Blain 2006 Bryan Gaensler 2007 No award 2008 Lisa Kewley 2009 Joshua Bloom 2010 Tommaso Treu 2011 Gaspar Bakos 2012 John A. Johnson 2013 Jason Kalirai 2014 Nadia L. Zakamska 2015 Heather A. Knutson 2016 Karin Öberg 2017 Evan Kirby 2018 Caitlin Casey 2019 Daniel R. Weisz 2020 Emily Levesque 2021 Courtney Dressing 2022 Erin Kara 2023 Renee Ludlam
See also List of astronomy awards
References
External links Newton Lacy Pierce prize, from the American Astronomical Society