The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a PhD, for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy. The awardee is invited to give a talk at an AAS meeting and is given a $1,500 honorarium.AAS Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy. Retrieved 10 December 2014. The award is named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon.
Margaret Burbidge was due to be given the 1972 award, but she refused it on the grounds of gender discrimination, stating: "It is high time that discrimination in favor of, as well as against, women in professional life be removed". This prompted the AAS to set up its first committee on the status of women in astronomy and they ceased issuing the award directly. From 1973 to 2004 the American Association of University Women issued the awards, on advice from the AAS. The AAS resumed direct issuing of the award in 2005.
List of winners Source: American Astronomical Society Year Recipient Awarded by the AAS 1934 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin 1937 Charlotte Moore Sitterly 1940 Julie Vinter Hansen 1943 Antonia Maury 1946 Emma Vyssotsky 1949 Helen Sawyer Hogg 1952 Ida Barney 1955 Helen Dodson Prince 1958 Margaret Mayall 1962 Margaret Harwood 1965 Erika Böhm-Vitense 1968 Henrietta Swope Awarded by the AAUW with advice of AAS 1974 Beatrice Tinsley 1976 Catharine Garmany 1978 Paula Szkody 1980 Lee Anne Willson 1982 Judith Young 1984 Harriet Dinerstein 1986 Rosemary Wyse 1988 Karen Jean Meech 1989 Jacqueline Hewitt 1990 Claudia Megan Urry 1991 Jane Luu 1992 Elizabeth Lada 1993 Stefi Baum 1994 Andrea Ghez 1995 Suzanne Madden 1996 Joan Najita 1997 Chung-Pei Ma 1998 Victoria M. Kaspi 1999 Sally Oey 2000 Alycia J. Weinberger 2001 Amy Barger 2002 Vassiliki Kalogera 2003 Annette Ferguson 2004 Sara Ellison Awarded by the AAS 2006 Lisa J. Kewley 2007 Ann Hornschemeier 2008 Jenny Greene 2009 Alicia M. Soderberg 2010 Anna Frebel 2011 Rachel Mandelbaum 2012 Heather Knutson 2013 Sarah Dodson-Robinson 2014 Emily Levesque 2015 Smadar Naoz 2016 Laura A. Lopez 2017 Rebekah Dawson 2018 Ilse Cleeves 2019 Blakesley Burkhart 2020 Caroline Morley 2021 Laura Kreidberg 2022 Eve Lee 2023 Marta Bryan 2024 Jennifer Bergner 2025 Maya Fishbach 2026 Mary Anne Limbach
See also
List of astronomy awards List of women astronomers List of prizes, medals, and awards for women in science Prizes named after people
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