Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy

The Annie Jump Cannon Award is for outstanding research and promise for future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. It is given to a North American female astronomer within five years of receiving her PhD in the year designated for the award. For example, the recipient of a PhD in 2014 would be eligible for the 2019 award (which must be applied for in calendar year 2018), but not for the 2020 award (which would be applied for in calendar year 2019). Note, however, that suspensions of career progress due to documented family or medical leave may be allowed as a factor in considering a person's eligibility. The Cannon Award includes an honorarium of $1,500 and an invitation to give an invited talk at a meeting of the AAS, for which travel expenses will be paid.

Self nominations are allowed, and all award requirements must be met at the time of nomination. Nominations are open and are due on 30 June.

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Annie Jump Cannon Award Committee

2023 – Marta Bryan

For her leadership in observational studies of gas-giant exoplanet formation, evolution, and impact on planetary systems.

2022 – Eve Lee

For her illuminating work on the formation of stars, debris disks, and planets.

2021 – Laura Kreidberg

For her pioneering research on the structure, composition, and dynamics of exoplanet atmospheres.

2020 – Caroline Morley

For her innovative work on modeling the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs. She has advanced our understanding of clouds and photochemical hazes and the role they play in observations of transmission and emission spectra.

2019 – Blakesley Burkhart

For her leadership in studies of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence on all scales and in diverse astrophysical environments, using innovative techniques to carefully compare observational data with numerical simulations.

2018 – Lauren Ilsedore Cleeves

For her groundbreaking work on planet formation and protoplanetary disks. She has established herself as an expert in astrochemical signatures in circumstellar disks.

2017 – Rebekah Dawson

For her work modeling the dynamical interactions of exoplanets in multiplanet systems. Her studies help explain exoplanets’ mutual orbital inclinations and eccentricities as well as their migration toward and away from each other and their host star.

2016 – Laura A. Lopez

For her contributions to understanding the birth-to-death cycle of stars in our galaxy.

2015 – Smadar Naoz

For her pathbreaking contributions in cosmology and planetary dynamics.

2014 – Emily Levesque

For her innovative work using gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to explore fundamental questions of stellar astrophysics and cosmology.

Awarded by the AAS

Year	Recipient(s)	Citation
2013	Sarah Dodson-Robinson	For her outstanding contributions to the study of the formation of planetary systems.
2012	Heather Knutson	For her pioneering work on the characterization of exoplanetary atmospheres.
2011	Rachel Mandelbaum	For her ground-breaking contributions to the field of weak gravitational lensing of galaxies.
2010	Anna Frebel	For her pioneering work in advancing our understanding of the earliest epochs of the Milky Way Galaxy through the study of its oldest stars.
2009	Alicia M. Soderberg	For her exploration of the physics of gamma ray bursts and supernovae and the connections between these two phenomena.
2008	Jenny E. Greene	For her studies of massive black holes and their relation to galaxy formation.
2007	Ann Hornschemeier	For her X-ray investigations of distant galaxies.
2006	Lisa J. Kewley	For her powerful work on theoretical modeling and analysis of galaxy spectra.

Awarded by the AAUW with advice from the AAS

Year	Recipient
2004	Sara Ellison
2003	Annette Ferguson
2002	Vassiliki Kalogera
2001	Amy J. Barger
2000	Alycia J. Weinberger
1999	Sally Oey
1998	Victoria M. Kaspi
1997	Chung-Pei Ma
1996	Joan Najita
1995	Suzanne Madden
1994	Andrea Mia Ghez
1993	Stefi Baum
1992	Elizabeth Lada
1991	Jane Luu
1990	C. Megan Urry
1989	Jacqueline N. Hewitt
1988	Karen J. Meech
1986	Rosemary F. Wyse
1984	Harriet L. Dinerstein
1982	Judith S. Young
1980	Lee Anne M. Willson
1978	Paula Szkody
1976	Catharine D. Garmany
1974	Beatrice M. Tinsley