The Harold C. Urey Prize is awarded annually by the

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of the

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. The prize recognizes and encourages outstanding achievements in

planetary science Planetary science (or more rarely, planetology) is the scientific study of planets (including Earth), celestial bodies (such as moons, asteroids, comets) and planetary systems (in particular those of the Solar System) and the processes of their f ...

by a young scientist. The prize is named after

Harold C. Urey Harold Clayton Urey ( ; April 29, 1893 – January 5, 1981) was an American physical chemist whose pioneering work on isotopes earned him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1934 for the discovery of deuterium. He played a significant role in the d ...

Urey Prize winners

* 1984

David J. Stevenson David John Stevenson (born 2 September 1948) is a professor of planetary science at Caltech. Originally from New Zealand, he received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in physics, where he proposed a model for the interior of Jupiter. He is well k ...

* 1985

Larry W. Esposito Larry W. Esposito (born April 15, 1951) is an American planetary astronomer and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder. A 1973 graduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Esposito ...

* 1986

Jack Wisdom Jack Wisdom (born 1953) is a Professor of Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Rice University in 1976 and his Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology in 1981. His research interests are ...

* 1987

Steve Squyres Steven Weldon Squyres (born January 9, 1956) is an American geologist and planetary scientist. He was the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. His research area is in planetary sciences, with a f ...

* 1988 Jonathan I. Lunine * 1989 Christopher P. McKay * 1990

David J. Tholen David James Tholen (born 1955) is an American astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaii. He holds a 1984 PhD from the University of Arizona, and specializes in planetary and Solar System astronomy. He is a discovere ...

* 1991 Richard P. Binzel * 1992

Jack J. Lissauer Jack Jonathan Lissauer (born 1957) is an American research scientist who has worked for NASA's Ames Research Center since 1996. He is a science co-investigator on the Kepler space telescope mission. Biography Lissauer received a PhD in mathemat ...

* 1993 Roger Yelle * 1994

Karen Jean Meech Karen J. Meech (born 1959) is an American planetary astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) of the University of Hawaii. Career Karen Meech specializes in planetary astronomy, in particular the study of distant comets and their relat ...

* 1995 * 1996 Heidi B. Hammel * 1997 Renu Malhotra * 1998 Erik I. Asphaug * 1999 Douglas P. Hamilton * 2000 Alessandro Morbidelli * 2001

Michael E. Brown Michael E. Brown (born June 5, 1965) is an American astronomer, who has been professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) since 2003. His team has discovered many trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), including ...

* 2002

Brett J. Gladman Brett James Gladman (born April 19, 1966) is a Canadian astronomer and a full professor at the University of British Columbia's Department of Physics and Astronomy in Vancouver, British Columbia. He holds the Canada Research Chair in planetary as ...

* 2003

Robin M. Canup Robin M. Canup (born November 20, 1968) is an American astrophysicist. Her main area of research concerns the origins of planets and satellites. In 2003, Canup was awarded the Harold C. Urey Prize. In April, 2022, Canup presented the findings of t ...

* 2004

Jean-Luc Margot Jean-Luc Margot (born 1969) is a Belgian-born astronomer and a UCLA professor who specializes in planetary sciences. Career Margot has discovered and studied several binary asteroids with radar and optical telescopes. His discoveries include ( ...

* 2005

David Nesvorný David (; , "beloved one") (traditional spelling), , ''Dāwūd''; grc-koi, Δαυΐδ, Dauíd; la, Davidus, David; gez , ዳዊት, ''Dawit''; xcl, Դաւիթ, ''Dawitʿ''; cu, Давíдъ, ''Davidŭ''; possibly meaning "beloved one". w ...

* 2006 Tristan Guillot * 2007 Francis Nimmo * 2008 ''no award'' * 2009

Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay Sarah T. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is an American Planetary science, planetary scientist known for studying Nebular hypothesis, planet formation, planetary geology, and materials science. She is a professor at the University of California, Davis in th ...

* 2010

Jonathan Fortney Jonathan may refer to: *Jonathan (name), a masculine given name Media * ''Jonathan'' (1970 film), a German film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer * ''Jonathan'' (2016 film), a German film directed by Piotr J. Lewandowski * ''Jonathan'' (2018 ...

* 2011 Eric B. Ford * 2012 Alberto G. Fairen * 2013 Anders Johansen * 2014 Matija Ćuk * 2015 Geronimo Villanueva * 2016 Leigh Fletcher * 2017 Bethany Ehlmann * 2018 Francesca DeMeo * 2019 Kelsi Singer * 2020 Rebekah Dawson * 2021 Lynnae Quick * 2022 Juan Lora

References

*{{cite web , url=http://dps.aas.org/prizes/urey , title=Harold C. Urey Prize in Planetary Science , website=Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society , access-date=2015-01-12 Astronomy prizes American Astronomical Society

Urey Prize winners

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