The Petrie Prize Lecture is an award given in alternate years by the
Canadian Astronomical Society
The Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA; french: link=yes, La Société Canadienne d'Astronomie) is a Canadian society of professional astronomers, founded in 1971 and incorporated in 1983. The society is devoted to the promotion and advanceme ...
to an outstanding
astrophysicist. The award commemorates the contributions to astrophysical research of the Canadian astronomer
Robert M. Petrie.
Prize Winners
Source
Canadian Astronomical Society
* 1970
Alastair G. W. Cameron
* 1971
Jesse Leonard Greenstein
* 1971
Carlyle Smith Beals
Carlyle Smith Beals, FRS (June 29, 1899 – July 2, 1979) was a Canadian astronomer.
Early life and education
Carl Beals was born in Canso, Nova Scotia to Reverend Francis H. P. Beals and Annie Florence Nightingale Smith, on June 29, 1899 ...
* 1977
J. Beverley Oke
* 1979
Geoffrey Burbidge
* 1981
Hubert Reeves
Hubert Reeves (born July 13, 1932), is a Canadian astrophysicist and popularizer of science.
Early life and education
Reeves was born in Montreal on July 13, 1932, and as a child lived in Léry. Reeves attended Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, a ...
* 1983
M. J. Plavec
* 1985
Charles Hard Townes
* 1987
Henry Matthews
* 1989
James Peebles
* 1991
Peter B. Stetson
* 1993
Maarten Schmidt
* 1995
George Howard Herbig
* 1997
Alexei Filippenko
Alexei Vladimir "Alex" Filippenko (; born July 25, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and professor
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UC Berkeley page for Alexei Filippenko
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* 1999 Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney Van den Bergh, OC, FRS (born 20 May 1929 in Wassenaar) is a retired Dutch-Canadian astronomer.
He showed an interest in science from an early age, learning to read with books on astronomy. In addition to being interested in astronomy. ...
* 2001 James E. Gunn
* 2003 Martin Rees
* 2005 Reinhard Genzel
* 2007 Ewine van Dishoeck
* 2009 Scott Tremaine
Scott Duncan Tremaine (born 1950) is a Canadian-born astrophysicist. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of London, the Royal Society of Canada and the National Academy of Sciences. Tremaine is widely regarded as one of the world's leading as ...
* 2011 Andrew Fabian
* 2013 Françoise Combes
Françoise Combes (; born 12 August 1952) is a French astrophysicist at the Paris Observatory and a professor at the Collège de France where she has been the chair of Galaxies and cosmology since 2014.
On 15 September 2017 the 'City of Succes ...
* 2015 Wendy Freedman
Wendy Laurel Freedman (born July 17, 1957) is a Canadian-American astronomer, best known for her measurement of the Hubble constant, and as director of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, and Las Campanas, Chile. She is now the J ...
* 2017 Charles A. Beichman
Charles Beichman is the current executive director of NASA Exoplanet Science Institute (2003–Present), senior faculty associate at California Institute of Technology and an astronomer. In 1975 Beichman received an Master of Science in astronomy ...
* 2019 Gabriela Gonzalez
See also
* List of astronomy awards
References
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External links
website of the Canadian Astronomical Society for the R. M. Petrie Prize Lecture
Astronomy prizes
Canadian science and technology awards