Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

The Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society to a young astronomer (aged less than 36, or within 8 years of the award of their PhD) for a significant contribution to observational or theoretical astronomy.

List of winners
This list is from the American Astronomical Society's website. • 1954 Aden Meinel

• 1955 George Herbig

• 1956 Harold Johnson

• 1957 Allan Sandage

• 1958 Merle F. Walker

• 1959 E. Margaret Burbidge, Geoffrey Burbidge

• 1960 Halton Arp

• 1961 Joseph W. Chamberlain

• 1962 Robert Kraft

• 1963 Bernard F. Burke

• 1964 Maarten Schmidt

• 1965 George W. Preston

• 1966 Riccardo Giacconi

• 1967 Pierre Demarque

• 1968 Frank J. Low

• 1969 Wallace L. W. Sargent

• 1970 John N. Bahcall

• 1971 Kenneth Kellermann

• 1972 Jeremiah P. Ostriker

• 1973 George Carruthers

• 1974 Dimitri Mihalas

• 1975 Patrick Palmer, Ben Zuckerman

• 1976 Stephen E. Strom

• 1977 Frank Shu

• 1978 David Schramm

• 1979 Arthur Davidsen

• 1980 Paul C. Joss

• 1981 William H. Press

• 1982 Roger Blandford

• 1983 Scott D. Tremaine

• 1984 Michael S. Turner

• 1985 Lennox L. Cowie

• 1986 Simon D. M. White

• 1987 Jack Wisdom

• 1988 Mitchell C. Begelman

• 1989 Nicholas Kaiser

• 1990  Ethan T. Vishniac

• 1991 Shrinivas Kulkarni

• 1992 Edmund Bertschinger

• 1993 John F. Hawley

• 1994  David N. Spergel

• 1995 E. Sterl Phinney

• 1996 Fred C. Adams

• 1997 Charles C. Steidel

• 1998 Marc Kamionkowski

• 1999 Lars Bildsten

• 2000 Wayne Hu

• 2001 Uroš Seljak

• 2002 Adam Riess

• 2003 Matias Zaldarriaga

• 2004 William Holzapfel

• 2005 Christopher Reynolds

• 2006 Re’em Sari

• 2007 Sara Seager

• 2008 Eliot Quataert

• 2009 Scott Gaudi

• 2010  Scott Ransom

• 2011 Steven R. Furlanetto

• 2012 Eric B. Ford

• 2013 Mark Krumholz

• 2014 Christopher M. Hirata

• 2015 Ruth Murray-Clay

• 2016 Philip F. Hopkins

• 2017 Charlie Conroy

• 2018 Yacine Ali-Haïmoud

• 2019 Jo Bovy

• 2020 Smadar Naoz

• 2021 Rebekah Dawson

• 2022 Brett McGuire

• 2023 Ana Bonaca

• 2024 Carl Rodriguez