Award | Sponsor | Country | Notes |
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Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society | United States | Woman resident of North America, within five years of receipt of a Ph.D., for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy [1] |
Barringer Medal | Meteoritical Society | United States | Outstanding work in the field of impact cratering and/or work that has led to a better understanding of impact phenomena [2] |
Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize | American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character [3] |
Brouwer Award | Division on Dynamical Astronomy, American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of dynamical astronomy [4] |
Bruce Medal | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | United States | Outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy [5] |
Bruno Rossi Prize | High Energy Astrophysics division, American Astronomical Society | United States | Significant contribution to High Energy Astrophysics, with particular emphasis on recent, original work [6] |
Carl Sagan Medal | Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the general public [7] |
Carl Sagan Memorial Award | American Astronautical Society / The Planetary Society | United States | Leadership in research or policies advancing exploration of the Cosmos [8] |
Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award | American Astronomical Society | United States | Achievement in astronomical research made by an amateur astronomer resident in North America [9] [10] |
Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award | American Astronomical Society | United States | For astronomy writing for an academic audience [11] |
Clifford W. Holmes Award | RTMC Astronomy Expo | United States | Individual for a significant contribution to popularizing astronomy [12] |
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics | American Astronomical Society / American Institute of Physics | United States | Outstanding work in astrophysics [13] |
Edgar Wilson Award | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | United States | Amateur comet discoverers [14] [15] [16] |
George Ellery Hale Prize | Solar Physics Division, American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding contributions over an extended period of time to the field of solar astronomy [17] |
George Van Biesbroeck Prize | American Astronomical Society | United States | Long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astronomy, often beyond the requirements of his or her paid position [18] |
Gerard P. Kuiper Prize | Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding lifetime achievement in the field of planetary science [19] |
Gordon A. McKay Award | Meteoritical Society | United States | Student who gives the best oral presentation at its annual meeting [20] |
Gordon Myers Amateur Achievement Award | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | United States | Significant contributions to astronomy or amateur astronomy by those not employed in the field of astronomy in a professional capacity [21] [22] [23] |
Gruber Prize in Cosmology | Gruber Foundation / International Astronomical Union | United States | Discoveries leading to fundamental advances in our understanding of the universe [24] |
Harold C. Urey Prize | Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding achievements in planetary science by a young scientist [25] |
Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy | American Astronomical Society | United States | Young astronomer (aged less than 36, or within 8 years of the award of their PhD) for a significant contribution to observational or theoretical astronomy [26] |
Henry Draper Medal | National Academy of Sciences | United States | For investigations in astronomical physics [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] |
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship | American Astronomical Society | United States | Lifetime of excellence in astronomical research [32] |
J. Lawrence Smith Medal | National Academy of Sciences | United States | Investigations of meteoric bodies [33] |
James Craig Watson Medal | National Academy of Sciences | United States | Contributions to astronomy [34] |
Jessberger Award | Meteoritical Society | United States | Outstanding research by a mid-career, female isotope geochemist [35] |
Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award | Division for Planetary Sciences | United States | Recognize and stimulate distinguished popular writing on planetary sciences [36] [37] |
Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation | American Astronomical Society | United States | Design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy [38] |
Karen Harvey Prize | American Astronomical Society | United States | Significant contribution to the study of the Sun early in a person's professional career [39] |
Klumpke-Roberts Award | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | United States | Outstanding contributions to the public understanding and appreciation of astronomy [40] |
LeRoy E. Doggett Prize | American Astronomical Society | United States | Individuals who have significantly influenced the field of the history of astronomy by a career-long effort [41] |
Leonard Medal | Meteoritical Society | United States | Outstanding contributions to the science of meteoritics and closely allied fields [42] |
Leslie C. Peltier Award | Astronomical League | United States | Amateur astronomer who has contributed observations of lasting significance [43] |
Marc Aaronson Memorial Lectureship | University of Arizona | United States | Individual or group who ... has produced a body of work in observational astronomy which has resulted in a significant deepening of our understanding of the universe [44] |
Marcel Grossmann Award | International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics | Rome, Italy | Institutions and individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to astrophysics. [45] |
Masursky Award | Division for Planetary Sciences, American Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding service to planetary science and exploration through engineering, managerial, programmatic, or public service activities [46] |
Meteoritical Society's Service Award | Meteoritical Society | United States | Promote research and education in meteoritics and planetary science in ways other than by conducting scientific research [47] |
National Prize for Exact Sciences | National Prize for Sciences | Chile | e.g., Astronomy, physics, mathematics [48] |
Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy | American Astronomical Society | United States | Young (less than age 36) astronomer for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research [49] |
Nier Prize | Meteoritical Society | United States | Outstanding research in meteoritics and closely allied fields by young scientists [50] |
Nininger Meteorite Award | Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University | United States | Outstanding student achievement in the “Science of Meteoritics” as embodied by an original research paper [51] |
Paul Pellas-Graham Ryder Award | Meteoritical Society, Geological Society of America | United States | Best planetary science paper, published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal, and written by an undergraduate or graduate student (as first author) [52] |
Petrie Prize Lecture | Canadian Astronomical Society | Canada | Outstanding astrophysicist [53] |
Richard H. Emmons Award | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | United States | Outstanding achievement in teaching college-level introductory astronomy classes for non-science majors. [54] |
Rittenhouse Medal | Rittenhouse Astronomical Society | United States | Outstanding achievement in the science of Astronomy [55] |
Robert J. Trumpler Award | Astronomical Society of the Pacific | United States | Recent recipient of the Ph.D degree whose thesis is judged particularly significant to astronomy [56] |
Vera Rubin Early Career Prize | Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society | United States | Excellence in dynamical astronomy [57] |
Whipple Award | Planetary Sciences Section, American Geophysical Union | United States | Outstanding contribution to the field of planetary science [58] |