Awards & Winners

Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

American Astronomical Society Prizes and Awards

The Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics is jointly awarded each year by the American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics for outstanding work in astrophysics. It is funded by the Heineman Foundation in honour of Dannie Heineman. The Heineman awardees are: 1980 Joseph H. Taylor, Jr. 1981 Riccardo Giacconi 1982 P. James E. Peebles 1983 Irwin I. Shapiro 1984 Martin Rees 1985 Sandra M. Faber 1986 Hyron Spinrad 1987 David L. Lambert 1988 James E. Gunn 1989 Carl E. Heiles 1990 Richard McCray 1991 Wallace L. W. Sargent 1992 Bohdan Paczyński 1993 John C. Mather 1994 John N. Bahcall 1995 Jerry E. Nelson 1996 Roger A. Chevalier 1997 Scott D. Tremaine 1998 Roger Blandford 1999 Kenneth C. Freeman 2000 Frank Shu 2001 Bruce G. Elmegreen 2002 J. Richard Bond 2003 Rashid Sunyaev 2004 Bruce T. Draine 2005 George Efstathiou, Simon White 2006 Marc Davis 2007 Robert Kennicutt 2008 Andrew Fabian 2009 Lennox L. Cowie 2010 Edward Kolb, Michael Turner 2011 Robert P. Kirshner 2012 Chryssa Kouveliotou 2013 Rachel Somerville

Check all the winners of Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics presented under American Astronomical Society Prizes and Awards since 1980 .