The George Ellery Hale Prize, or Hale Prize, is awarded annually by the

Solar Physics Division The Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS/SPD) or (AAS-SPD), often referred to as simply the "Solar Physics Division" (SPD), is the primary trade organization of solar physicists in the U.S. It exists for the advancement ...

of the

American Astronomical Society The American Astronomical Society (AAS, sometimes spoken as "double-A-S") is an American society of professional astronomers and other interested individuals, headquartered in Washington, DC. The primary objective of the AAS is to promote the adv ...

for outstanding contributions over an extended period of time to the field of

solar astronomy The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared r ...

. The prize is named in memory of

George Ellery Hale George Ellery Hale (June 29, 1868 – February 21, 1938) was an American solar astronomer, best known for his discovery of magnetic fields in sunspots, and as the leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-lea ...

. Past winners of the Hale Prize are: {{columns-list, colwidth=22em, *1978 Eugene N. Parker *1980

John Paul Wild Dr John Paul Wild Companion of the Order of Australia, AC Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE Master of Arts, MA Doctor of Science, ScD (University of Cambridge, Cantab.) Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS Australian Academy of Tech ...

*1982 John W. Evans *1984

Leo Goldberg Leopold Goldberg (26 January 1913 – 1 November 1987) was an American astronomer who held professorships at Harvard and the University of Michigan and the directorships of several major observatories. He was president of both the International As ...

*1986 Peter A. Sturrock *1988

Cornelis de Jager Cornelis "Kees" de Jager (; 29 April 1921 – 27 May 2021) was a Dutch astronomer who specialized in predicting solar variation to assess the Sun's impact on future climate. He was the General Secretary of the IAU from 1967 to 1973 and former d ...

*1990 Richard N. Tousey *1992

Horace W. Babcock Horace Welcome Babcock (September 13, 1912 – August 29, 2003) was an American astronomer. He was the son of Harold D. Babcock. Career Babcock invented and built a number of astronomical instruments, and in 1953 was the first to propose th ...

*1994 Douglas O. Gough *1996

Raymond Davis Jr. Raymond Davis Jr. (October 14, 1914 – May 31, 2006) was an American chemist and physicist. He is best known as the leader of the Homestake experiment in the 1960s-1980s, which was the first experiment to detect neutrinos emitted from the Sun; f ...

*1998 Richard B. Dunn *1999

John W. Harvey John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

*2000 Loren W. Acton *2001 Alan M. Title *2002

Eric Priest Eric Ronald Priest (born 7 November 1943) is Emeritus Professor at St Andrews University, where he previously held the Gregory Chair of Mathematics and a Bishop Wardlaw Professorship. Career and research Priest is a recognised authority in sol ...

*2003 Robert F. Howard *2004 Robert P. Lin *2005 Spiro Antiochos *2006 Peter A. Gilman *2007 Mukul R. Kundu *2008 Hugh S. Hudson *2009 Neil R. Sheeley Jr. *2010

Marcia Neugebauer Marcia Neugebauer (born September 27, 1932) is a prominent American geophysicist who made contributions to space physics. Neugebauer's research was among the first that yielded the first direct measurements of the solar wind and shed light on ...

*2011

Henk Spruit Henk is a Dutch male given name, originally a short form of Hendrik. It influenced "Hank" which is used in English-speaking countries (mainly in the US) as a form of "Henry". People named "Henk" include: Academics *Henk Aertsen (born 1943), Dutc ...

*2012

Don Reames Don, don or DON and variants may refer to: Places *County Donegal, Ireland, Chapman code DON * Don (river), a river in European Russia * Don River (disambiguation), several other rivers with the name *Don, Benin, a town in Benin * Don, Dang, a v ...

*2013

Richard Canfield Richard Albert Canfield (June 17, 1855 (birth record) or June 28, 1855 (grave) – December 11, 1914) was a prominent American businessman and art collector involved in illegal gambling throughout the northeastern United States during the late 1 ...

*2014 Thomas Duvall, Jr. *2015

George Doschek George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...

*2016 Terry G. Forbes *2017 Manfred Schüssler *2018 Sarbani Basu *2019 Phil Scherrer *2020 Kazunari Shibata *2022

Sami Solanki Sami Khan Solanki (born 1958 in Karachi, Pakistan) is director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), director of the Sun-Heliosphere Department of MPS, a scientific member of the Max Planck Society, and a Chair (and spo ...

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Astronomy prizes American awards Awards established in 1978 1978 establishments in the United States American Astronomical Society

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