Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize
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The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize is awarded every other year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character. The prize is named in honor of cosmologist and astronomer Beatrice Tinsley.
Tinsley Prize winners:
- 1986 Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- 1988 Harold I. Ewen, Edward M. Purcell
- 1990 Antoine Labeyrie
- 1992 Robert H. Dicke
- 1994 Raymond Davis Jr.
- 1996 Aleksander Wolszczan
- 1998 Robert E. Williams
- 2000 Charles R. Alcock
- 2002 Geoffrey Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt
- 2004 Ronald J. Reynolds
- 2006 John E. Carlstrom
