The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a PhD, for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy. The awardee is invited to give a talk at an AAS meeting and is given a $1,500 honorarium.[1] The award is named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon.

Margaret Burbidge was due to be given the 1972 award, but she refused it on the grounds of gender discrimination, stating: "It is high time that discrimination in favor of, as well as against, women in professional life be removed".[2] This prompted the AAS to set up its first committee on the status of women in astronomy[2] and they ceased issuing the award directly. From 1973–2004 the American Association of University Women issued the awards, on advice from the AAS. The AAS resumed direct issuing of the award in 2005.

List of winners

Source: American Astronomical Society

Year Recipient
Awarded by the AAS
1934Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
1937Charlotte Moore Sitterly
1940Julie Vinter Hansen
1943Antonia Maury
1946Emma Vyssotsky
1949Helen Sawyer Hogg
1952Ida Barney[3]
1955Helen Dodson Prince
1958Margaret Mayall
1962Margaret Harwood
1965Erika Böhm-Vitense
1968Henrietta Swope
Awarded by the AAUW with advice of AAS
1974Beatrice Tinsley
1976Catharine Garmany
1978Paula Szkody
1980Lee Anne Willson
1982Judith Young
1984Harriet Dinerstein
1986Rosemary Wyse
1988Karen Jean Meech
1989Jacqueline Hewitt
1990Claudia Megan Urry
1991Jane Luu
1992Elizabeth Lada
1993Stefi Baum
1994Andrea Ghez
1995Suzanne Madden
1996Joan Najita
1997Chung-Pei Ma
1998Victoria M. Kaspi
1999Sally Oey
2000Alycia J. Weinberger
2001Amy Barger
2002Vassiliki Kalogera
2003Annette Ferguson
2004Sara Ellison
Awarded by the AAS
2006Lisa J. Kewley
2007Ann Hornschemeier
2008Jenny Greene
2009Alicia M. Soderberg
2010Anna Frebel
2011Rachel Mandelbaum
2012Heather Knutson
2013Sarah Dodson-Robinson
2014Emily Levesque
2015Smadar Naoz
2016Laura A. Lopez
2017Rebekah Dawson
2018Ilse Cleeves
2019Blakesley Burkhart
2020Caroline Morley[4]
2021Laura Kreidberg
2022Eve Lee
2023Marta Bryan

See also

Notes

  1. AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
  2. 1 2 Skuse, Ben (6 April 2020). "Celebrating Astronomer Margaret Burbidge, 1919–2020". Sky & Telescope. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  3. "Bibliography: Ida Smith Barney". Women in Astronomy. Library of Congress. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
  4. "Caroline Morley Receives Annie Jump Cannon Award | McDonald Observatory".
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