Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics

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.

Recipients
Source: AAS • 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

• 2014  Piero Madau

• 2015  David Spergel, Marc Kamionkowski

• 2016  Wendy L. Freedman

• 2017 Lars Bildsten

• 2018 Vicky Kalogera

• 2019 Edwin Bergin

• 2020 Christopher Kochanek

• 2021 Robert Lupton, David Weinberg

• 2022 Norman Murray

• 2023 Karen Meech