The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually by 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 ...

to a young (less than age 36) astronomer for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research. The prize is named after Newton Lacy Pierce, an American astronomer.

Pierce Prize winners

Source
AAS
* 1974 Edwin M. Kellogg * 1975

Eric Becklin Eric E. Becklin (born 6 April 1940) is an American astrophysicist. The primary focus of Becklin's research is infrared imaging and spectroscopy, including the search for brown dwarfs, the detection of circumstellar dust rings, the dynamics a ...

* 1976 James Roger Angel * 1977

Donald N.B. Hall Donald is a masculine given name derived from the Goidelic languages, Gaelic name ''Dòmhnall''.. This comes from the Proto-Celtic language, Proto-Celtic *''Dumno-ualos'' ("world-ruler" or "world-wielder"). The final -''d'' in ''Donald'' is part ...

* 1978 James M. Moran, Jr. * 1979 D. Harper * 1980 Jack Baldwin * 1981

Bruce Margon The English language name Bruce arrived in Scotland with the Normans, from the place name Brix, Manche in Normandy, France, meaning "the willowlands". Initially promulgated via the descendants of king Robert the Bruce (1274−1329), it has been a ...

* 1982 Marc Davis * 1983

Alan Dressler Alan Michael Dressler (born 23 March 1948) is an American astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science of Washington, D.C. Among his works is the popularization ''Voyage To The Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space''. Dressler was ...

* 1984

Marc Aaronson Marc Aaronson (24 August 1950 – 30 April 1987) was an American astronomer. Life Aaronson was born in Los Angeles. He was educated at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a BS in 1972. He completed his Ph.D. in 1977 ...

Jeremy Mould Jeremy Richard Mould (born 31 July 1949) is an Australian astronomer currently at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology. Mould was previously Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astr ...

* 1985 Richard G. Kron * 1986 Reinhard Genzel * 1987 Donald E. Winget * 1988 Sallie L. Baliunas * 1989 Harriet Dinerstein * 1990 Kristen Sellgren * 1991

Kenneth G. Libbrecht Kenneth G. Libbrecht (born June, 1958) is a professor of physics and department chairman at the California Institute of Technology. Biography Libbrecht received a B.S. in physics at Caltech in 1980. He was originally trained as a solar astronomer ...

* 1992

Alexei Filippenko Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko (; born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions ...

* 1993

Arlin P.S. Crotts The name Arlin may refer to: * Arlin Godwin, American electronic musician and filmmaker * Arlin Horton, founder of Pensacola Christian College * Arlin Adams (1921–2015), American judge * Arlín Ayoví (born 1979), Ecuadorian football player * Be ...

* 1994 ''No award'' * 1995

Andrew McWilliam Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived ...

* 1996 Michael Strauss * 1997

Alyssa A. Goodman Alyssa Ann Goodman (born July 1, 1962) is the Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard University, co-Director for Science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Research Associate of the Smithsonian Institution, a ...

* 1998

Andrea Ghez Andrea is a given name which is common worldwide for both males and females, cognate to Andreas, Andrej and Andrew. Origin of the name The name derives from the Greek word ἀνήρ (''anēr''), genitive ἀνδρός (''andrós''), that re ...

* 1999 Dennis F. Zaritsky * 2000

Kirpal Nandra Kirpal "Paul" Nandra is a British physicist and the current director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. He was Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Astrophysics Group at Imperial College London. He is noted as a member ...

* 2001 Kenneth R. Sembach * 2002

Amy Barger Amy J. Barger (born January 18, 1971) is an American astronomer and Henrietta Leavitt Professor of Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is considered a pioneer in combining data from multiple telescopes to monitor multiple wa ...

* 2003

Xiaohui Fan Xiaohui Fan (born 9 December 1971 in Beijing, China) is an American astronomer, and full professor at University of Arizona. He is widely known for his studies on quasars, extremely bright supermassive black holes, detected primarily at high reds ...

* 2004

Niel Brandt William Nielsen Brandt (born June 10, 1970; also known as Niel Brandt) is the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics and a professor of physics at the Pennsylvania State University. He is best known for his work on active galaxi ...

* 2005

Andrew Blain Andrew Blain is a British astronomer and professor at the University of Leicester. He was previously assistant professor at California Institute of Technology. He was chairman of ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC) in 2010, a ...

* 2006 Bryan Gaensler * 2007 ''No award'' * 2008

Lisa Kewley Lisa Jennifer Kewley (born 1974) is a Professor and Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3-D (ASTRO 3-D) and ARC Laureate Fellow at the Australian National University College of Physical and Mathematical Science ...

* 2009

Joshua Bloom Joshua Simon Bloom (born June 8, 1974 in Washington, D.C.) is an American astrophysicist, chair and professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the CTO and co-founder of the machine-learning companwise.io(acquired b ...

* 2010

Tommaso Treu Tommaso is an Italian given name. It has also been used as a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name A * Tommaso Acquaviva d'Aragona (1600–1672), Roman Catholic prelate * Tommaso Aldrovandini (1653–1736), Italian painter of ...

* 2011 Gaspar Bakos * 2012 John A. Johnson * 2013

Jason Kalirai Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea. He w ...

* 2014

Nadia L. Zakamska Nadia Zakamska is a Russian-American astronomer who is a professor at Johns Hopkins University. Early life and education Zakamska graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology with a master's degree in theoretical physics in 2001. Z ...

* 2015

Heather A. Knutson Heather A. Knutson is an astrophysicist and professor of planetary science at California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.http://www.gps.caltech.eduHeather A. Knutson , www.gps.caltech.edu accessdate ...

* 2016

Karin Öberg Karin Ingegerd Öberg (born August 27, 1982) is a Swedish astrochemist.Öberg, Karin I. (2009). ''Complex processes in simple ices - Laboratory and observational studies of gas-grain interactions during star formation'' (Ph.D.). Leiden Universit ...

* 2017

Evan Kirby Evan is both an English and Welsh male given name derived from "Iefan", a Welsh form for the name John. In other languages it could be compared to "Ivan", "Ian", and "Juan"; the name John itself is derived from the ancient Hebrew name Yəhôḥ� ...

* 2018

Caitlin Casey Caitlin M Casey is an observational astronomer and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is known for her work in extragalactic astrophysics; she works on the formation and evolution of massive galaxies in the early Univer ...

* 2019

Daniel R. Weisz Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...

* 2020 Emily Levesque

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