Bok Prize

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The Bok Prize is awarded annually by the Astronomical Society of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding research in astronomy by honoring a student at an Australian university. The prize consists of the Bok Medal together with an award of $1000 and ASA membership for the following year. [1]

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History

The prize is named to commemorate the energetic work of Bart Bok in promoting the undergraduate and graduate study of astronomy in Australia, during his term (1957–1966) as Director of the Mount Stromlo Observatory.

Past winners

Source: Astronomical Society of Australia

YearWinnerUniversityAwarded for
2025Li YesenAustralian National UniversityOrbital dynamics in barred Milky Way
2024Sophie YoungUniversity of TasmaniaFree-free Absorption in Young Radio Galaxies
2023William McDonaldThe University of Western AustraliaDissociation of Dark Matter and Gas in Cosmic Large-scale Structure
2022Maria Djuric University of Sydney It looks like the Milky Way is a giant Swiss roll
2021Madeleine McKenzieThe University of Western AustraliaSimulating the Formation of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters
2020James Beattie Australian National University Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA)Supersonic Turbulent Molecular Clouds: Filaments and Anisotropies
2019Sam CreeUniversity of QueenslandCan the fluctuations of the Quantum Vacuum Solve the Cosmological Constant Problem?
2018Matthew KeenUniversity of SydneyAsteroseismology of Subgiant Stars: A Study of Mixed-Mode Oscillations
2017Madeline MarshallUniversity of TasmaniaTriggering Active Galactic Nuclei in Galaxy Clusters
2016 Samuel Hinton University of Queensland Extraction of Cosmological Information from WiggleZ
2015 Cleo Loi University of Sydney Waves in the sky: Probing the ionosphere with the Murchison Widefield Array
2014Ross Turner University of Tasmania Evolution of radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei
2013Ben PopeUniversity of SydneyDancing in the Dark: Kernel Phase Interferometry of Ultracool Dwarfs [2]
2012Alison HammondUniversity of SydneyCosmic Magnetism: Faraday Rotation as a Probe of Extragalactic Magnetic Fields
2011Barnaby NorrisUniversity of SydneyA study of AGB circumstellar dust shells using optical polarimetric interferometry
2010Madusha Gunawardhana Macquarie University/AAO Constraints on the Evolution of the Stellar Initial Mass Function
2009Peter Jensen University of Queensland The Colours of Galaxies in Intermediate X-ray Luminosity Galaxy Clusters
2008Christopher HalesUniversity of SydneyCosmic Forensics: A study of the Pulsar Wind Nebula G359.1-23, The Mouse
2007Katie Dodds-Eden Australian National University Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA) TeVeS Theory and observational tests.
2006Brent MiszalskiMacquarie UniversitySimulated Annealing and Optimisation of 2dF Fibre Configuration
2005Patrick ScottAustralian National UniversityCO spectral line formation in the sun: convective simulation, line profiles and isotopic abundances
2004Stanislav ShabalaUniversity of TasmaniaOn the Evolution of HII regions
2003Darren CrotonAustralian National University Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics (RSAA)Clustering and void statistics of the 2dF galaxy redshift survey
2002not awarded
2001Yeshe FennerAustralian National UniversitySolving the Mystery of the Warm Ionised Medium
2000Josephine BrownAustralian National UniversityA photometric morphological and environmental study of the COLA galaxy southern sample
1999Michael Murphy University of New South Wales Variability of the Fine Structure Constant
1998Malcolm KennettUniversity of SydneyNeutrino Emission from a Magnetised Plasma
1997Jean-Pierre MacquartUniversity of SydneyRadio Propagation through Discrete Structures in the Interstellar Medium
1996 Lisa Kewley University of Adelaide Astrophysical Angular Correlations
1995Michael Brown University of Melbourne A study of compound chondrule formation in meteorites
1994Arthur StreetUniversity of SydneyWork on acceleration in type II solar radio bursts
1993Sally HoughtonUniversity of New South WalesA study of methanol masers towards Sagittarius B2
1992Kylie Waring Monash University Photometry of stellar variations
1991Neal TurnerUniversity of SydneyWork on the atmospheres of cool dwarf stars
1990Robert Reinfrank University of Wollongong A CCD survey of bright southern galaxies
1989Andrew GrayUniversity of SydneySolar observations using the Molonglo radio telescope

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References

  1. "The Bok Prize". Astronomical Societyof Australia. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  2. Pope, Benjamin (2012). Dancing in the Dark: Kernel Phase Interferometry of Ultracool Dwarfs (PDF). Sydney Institute for Astronomy School of Physics University of Sydney. p. 68. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-22. Retrieved 2016-06-11.