Robert J. Trumpler Award

The Robert J. Trumpler Award of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific is given annually to a recent recipient of the Ph.D degree whose thesis is judged particularly significant to astronomy. The award is named after Robert Julius Trumpler, a notable Swiss-American astronomer (1886–1956).

Previous award winners
Source: ASP

• 1974 David Schramm, University of Texas at Austin

• 1975 J. Richard Gott, Princeton University

• 1976 Robert Hanson, University of California, Santa Cruz

• 1977 John Black, Harvard University

• 1978 Typhoon Lee, University of Texas at Austin

• 1979 Gary Schmidt, University of Arizona

• 1980 Luis Rodriguez, Harvard University, and James Liebert, University of California, Berkeley

• 1981 Richard Kron, University of California, Berkeley

• 1982 Bruce Twarog, Yale University

• 1983 Donald Winget, University of Rochester, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff, University of California, Santa Cruz

• 1984 Deidre Hunter, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

• 1985 Paul L. Hertz, Harvard University

• 1986 John Hill, University of Arizona

• 1987 Stephen Schneider, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• 1988 Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona

• 1989 Donald Terndrup, University of California, Santa Cruz

• 1990 Charles Bailyn, Harvard University

• 1991 Fred Adams, University of California, Berkeley

• 1992 Qingde Wang, Columbia University

• 1993 Megan Donahue, University of Colorado at Boulder

• 1994 Joe Shields, University of California, Berkeley

• 1995 Julie Thorburn, University of Chicago

• 1996 Wayne Hu, University of California, Berkeley

• 1997 John Hibbard, Columbia University

• 1998 Luis Ho, University of California, Berkeley

• 1999 Adam Riess, Harvard University

• 2000 Scott Burles, University of California, San Diego

• 2001 Michael A. Pahre, California Institute of Technology

• 2002 Volker Bromm, Yale University

• 2003 Daniel E. Reichart, University of Chicago

• 2004 David Charbonneau, Harvard University

• 2005 Jennifer Scott and Siming Liu, University of Arizona

• 2006 Steven Furlanetto, Harvard University

• 2007 Edo Berger, California Institute of Technology

• 2008 Anjum Mukadam, University of Washington

• 2009 Kevin Bundy, California Institute of Technology

• 2010 Robert Quimby, University of Texas

• 2011 Philip Hopkins, Harvard University

• 2012 Charles Conroy, Princeton University and Emily Levesque, University of Hawaii

• 2013 Gurtina Besla, Harvard University

• 2014 Brendan Bowler, University of Hawaii

• 2015 H. Jabran Zahid, University of Hawaii

• 2016 Rachael L. Beaton, University of Virginia

• 2017 Blakesley Burkhart, University of Wisconsin Madison

• 2018 Benjamin J. ("BJ") Fulton, University of Hawaii

• 2019 Katheryn Decker French, University of Arizona

• 2020 Gudmundur Kari Stefansson, The Pennsylvania State University

• 2021 Jane Huang, Harvard University

• 2022 Ariadna Murguia-Berthier, University of California, Santa Cruz

• 2023 Deborah Lokhorst, University of Toronto