Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize



         


The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize is awarded every other year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character. The prize is named in honor of cosmologist and astronomer Beatrice Tinsley.

Tinsley Prize winners:

YearRecipient
1986 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
1988 Harold I. Ewen, Edward M. Purcell
1990 Antoine Labeyrie
1992 Robert H. Dicke
1994 Raymond Davis
1996 Aleksander Wolszczan
1998 Robert E. Williams
2000 Charles Alcock
2002 Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt
2004 Ronald J. Reynolds




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