Alumni

From our first graduate--Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin in 1925--through our current graduates, the Astronomy Department showcases an amazing record of placement in premier and competitively sought-after positions in academia, research, and business. Notables have included Nobel Laureates Brian Schmidt, Joseph Taylor, and Adam Reiss

In 2013, our alumni returned to Cambridge to celebrate All the Stars: A Celebration of Harvard Astronomy - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

 

NameYearAdvisorCurrent Position
DiTomasso, Victoria
2026
David Charbonneau
Post-Doctoral Fellow, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chandra, Vedant
2026
Charlie Conroy
NASA Hubble Fellow, MIT
Cho, Hyerin
2026
Ramesh Narayan
Caltech Burke–CITA joint fellowship
Cheng, Shelley
2026
Charlie Conroy
Associate, McKinsey & Company
Simon, Alexia 
2025
Karin Oberg
Virginia Initiative on Cosmic Origins (VICO) postdoctoral fellow 
Han, Jiwon (Jesse) 
2025
Charlie Conroy
Stanford Science Fellow, Stanford University
Sanchez-Maes, Sophia 
2025
Jenna Samra
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics, U of Maryland
Omoruyi, Osase 
2025
Grant Trembley
Princeton/Carnegie Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton and Fellow at CCA
Romero-Mirza, Carlos E. 
2025
Karin Oberg
Applications Scientist, Inkbit
Eiben, Miranda 
2025
John Kovac
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Iceland
2025
Daniel Eisenstein
Postdoctoral Fellow at OSU's Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP)
Lamman, Claire 
2025
Daniel Eisenstein
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow at OSU's Center for Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (CCAPP)
Park, Minjung 
2025
Charlie Conroy
Kavli Institute Fellow, University of Cambridge (UK)
Beane, Angus 
2025
Lars Hernquist
Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows, New York University
2025
Julian Munoz, Sean Carroll
Research Engineer, Gemini Team, Google DeepMind
Cornelison, James
2024
John Kovac
Margaret Geoppert Mayer Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory
2024
Alyssa Goodman
Agriculture and Climate Data Science Postdoc Fellow, Dept of Earth & Planetary Science, Harvard
2024
Lars Hernquist
Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
2024
Matt Holman
Excellence Fellow at the University Cote D'Azure (Nice, France)
2024
Lars Hernquist
Junior Fellow, Simmons Society of Fellows, Columbia
2024
David Charbonneau
Torres Postdoctoral Fellow for Exoplanet Research, MIT
2023
Edo Berger
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
2023
Michael Johnson
Harvard Black Hole Initiative Fellow
2023
Daniel Eisenstein
University Toronto FAS Fellow and Dunlap Fellow
2023
Selma de Mink
Research Fellow, Flatiron; and Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Fellow at Princeton University
2023
Karin Öberg
Hubble Fellow, University of Virginia
2023
David Charbonneau
Postdoc Fellow, Penn State
2023
Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Postdoctoral Fellow, Climatebase
2023
David Charbonneau
MIT, Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics & Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship
2022
Daniel Eisenstein
Machine Learning Engineer, Sobeys
2022
John Raymond, John Eastman
Post Doc, NCAR High Altitude Observatory
2022
Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Unistellar Program Lead, SETI Institute
2022
Charles Conroy
Papalardo Fellow, MIT
2022
Daniel Eisenstein
David Foundation Scholar, St. Andrews University
2022
Daniel Eisenstein/Lars Hernqusit
Miller Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley
Curd, Brandon
2022
Ramesh Narayan
Post-Doctoral Fellow, UT San Antonio
Nava, Chantanelle
2022
Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Assistant Professor in Astronomy & Physics, University of Montana
2022
Jonathan Grindlay
Post-Doctoral Fellow, NASA
2021
Mercedes Lopez-Morales
Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute​​​​​
2021
Daniel Eisenstein
KIPAC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford
2021
Charles Conroy
CIERA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern
2021
David Charbonneau
Operations Research Analyst, US Department of Defense
2021
Karin Oberg
Post-Doctoral Fellow, STScI
2021
Karin Oberg
51 Pegasi b Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
2021
Edo Berger
Post-Doctoral Fellow, STScI, Baltimore
2021
Edo Berger
NASA Einstein Fellow, Northwestern University
2021
Lars Hernquist
ML Research Scientist, Meta
2021
David Latham
NSF MPA-Ascend Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Hawaii
2021
Douglas Finkbeiner
Post-Doctoral Fellow, CITA, University of Toronto
John Lewis
2021
Charles Lada
Education Specialist, CosmicDS Group, Center for Astrophysics
Matthew Heising
2021
Dimitar Sasselov
Science Teacher, Medford High School (Massachusetts)
Harshil Kamdar
2021
Charlie Conroy
Lead Senior Scientist, Insight M (Cambridge, MA)
2020
Karin Oberg, Sean Andrews
Assistant Professor, Columbia
2020
Edo Berger
Assistant Professor in Astronomy, Harvard
2020
Dimitar Sasselov
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, UW-Madison
2020
Douglas Finkbeiner, Allyssa Goodman
Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
2020
Charles Conroy, Daniel Eisenstein, Douglas Finkbeiner
Assistant Professor, Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
2020
David Charbonneau
Senior Researcher, Technical University of Denmark
2019
Charles Conroy
Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
2019
Jennifer Yee
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Planetary Habitability, Oslo
Wang, Xiawei
2019
Avi Loeb
Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group
2019
Edo Berger
CIERA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern
2019
Daniel Eisenstein
Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute's Scientific Computing Core
2019
Charles Conroy
Senior Quantitative Researcher, Semanteon Capital
2018
Edo Berger
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
2018
Lars Hernquist
Data Science and Visualization Freelancer, Chile
2018
Alyssa Goodman
Quantitative Researcher, JG Investments, Shanghai
2018
Charles Conroy
Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Netflix, Los Angeles
2018
Avi Loeb
Assistant Professor in Physics, Fairfield University, Connecticut
2018
Lars Hernquist
Computational Physicist, the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore
2018
Edo Berger
Senior Data Scientist, Topan Merrill
2018
Avi Loeb
Program Director, NSF Office of Polar Programs
2018
Charles Lada
Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Connecticut
Guo, Xinyi
2018
Ramesh Narayan
D. E. Shaw Research
2018
Lars Hernquist
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Astronomy Dept., Berkeley
2018
Karin Oberg
Associate Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
2018
Douglas Finkbeiner
Assistant Professor of Physics, Concordia University, Edmonton
2018
Sean Andrews
Science Ambassador, NASA Exoplanet Program
2017
Karin Oberg
Senior Professional Staff I, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
2017
John Kovac
Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University
2017
David J. Wilner
Assistant Professor in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder
2017
Lars Hernquist
Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute
2017
Dimitar Sasselov
Assistant Professor, Planetary Sciences, Univ of Arizona
2017
Dimitar Sasselov
Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Stanford
2017
Lars Hernquist
Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2017
Charles Conroy
Associate Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University
2017
David Latham
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard
2017
Lars Hernquist
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University
2016
Daniel Eisenstein
Associate, Honigman LLP, Chicago
2016
Sean Andrews
Lecturer, University of Saint Andrews
2016
David Charbonneau
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
2016
Edo Berger
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
2016
Douglas Finkbeiner
Sofja Kovalevskaja Group Leader, Max Plank Institute for Astronomy
2016
David Charbonneau
Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth
Piso, Ana-Maria
2016
Karin Oberg
R&D Lead, KeborMed
2016
Lars Hernquist
Associate Professor, Institute of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) in Morelia, Mexico
2016
Sean Andrews
Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling, Seattle
2016
Daniel Eisenstein
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida
2016
Stephen Cranmer and Alyssa Goodman
Assistant Professor, Physical Sciences Department, Grand Rapids Community College
2015
David Charbonneau
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley
2015
Edo Berger
Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah
2015
Avi Loeb
Associate Professor, Physics, Georgia Tech
Moe, Maxwell
2015
Rosanne DiStefano
Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
2015
Edo Berger
Assistant Professor, Stockholm University
2015
Lars Hernquist
Research Group Leader, ITA, University of Heidelberg
2015
Dimitar Sasselov and Lisa Kaltenegger
Associate Professor, York University
Zeng. Li
2015
Dimitar Sasselov
Simons Postdoc Fellow at Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard
2015
Ramesh Narayan
Senior Vice President, Qualitative Researcher, D. E. Shaw Group, New York
Beky, Bence
2014
Matt Holman
Software Engineer, Google, Boston
2014
Edo Berger
Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University
2014
Alicia Soderberg
Vice President, Data & AI, Harvard Business School Publishing
2014
Lars Hernquist
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia
2013
David Charbonneau
Assistant Professor, Astrophysical & Planetary Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
2013
Ruth Murray-Clay
Associate Professor, Penn State, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
2013
Sean Andrews
Data Scientist, Verizon Media, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2013
Howard Smith
Assistant Professor, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
2013
Lars Hernquist
Assistant Professor of Physics, Northwestern
2013
Ramesh Narayan
Assistant Professor of Physics, SUNY Polytechnic Institute
2013
Lars Hernquist
Archive Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute
2013
Avi Loeb
Theoretical Astrophysicist and Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2012
Jeffery McClintock
Astrophysicist, High Energy Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
2012
Robert Kirshner
(Deceased) Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Astrophysics & Space Science, UC, San Diego
2012
Avi Loeb
Associate Professor, Physics, University of Florida
2012
Doug Finkbeiner
Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong
2012
Justin Kasper
Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of Delaware
2012
David Charbonneau
Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida
Tang, Sumin
2012
Josh Grindlay
Senior Data Science Manager, Meta
Marcus, Robert
2011
Hernquist/Sasselov
Software Engineer, Google (Boulder)
2011
Martin Elvis
Data Scientist/Staff Engineer, Samsung SDS, San Francisco
2011
Julia Lee
Assistant Professor, Physics, Villanova
2011
Lars Hernquist
Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
2011
Ramesh Narayan
Software Engineer, Google (Durham, NC)
2011
Lars Hernquist
Physics Teacher, Braintree High School (MA)
2011
Robert Kirshner
Professor of Astrostatistics and Data Science, University of Cambridge
2011
Gaensler/Finkbeiner
Scientific Radion Astronomer, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
2011
Lars Hernquist
Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, New York
2010
Lars Hernquist
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University
Nantais, Julie
2010
John Huchra
Professor of Physics, Andres Bello National University, Chile
2010
Matthew Holman
Assistant Professor in Astronomy, University of Chile
2010
Avi Loeb
Assistant Group Leader, Lincoln Laboratory, MA
2010
David Wilner
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan College
2010
Avi Loeb
Software Engineer, Google, Boulder, CO
2010
Martin Elvis
Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics, UNiversity of Missouri
2010
Ramesh Narayan
Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Northwestern University
2010
Alyssa Goodman
Scientist, Center for Astronomical Studies, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Nutzman, Philip
2010
David Charbonneau
Quantitative Researcher for Hedge Fund, London
Johnson (nee Bush), Stephanie
2010
Giovanni Fazio/Lars Hernquist
European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting
2009
David Charbonneau
Professor of Planetary Science, Caltech
Park, Shinae
2009
Giovanni Fazio
Physics Teacher, Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
Younger, Joshua
2009
Giovanni Fazio
Lecturer in Law, Columbia; Sr Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2009
Lars Hernquist
Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington
2009
David Charbonneau/David Latham
Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania
Eliza Kempton (nee Miller-Ricci)
2009
Dimitar Sasselov
Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Maryland
2009
Lori Allen
Systems Software Engineer, Collins Aerospace
2009
Dimitar Sasselov
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas
2009
Alyssa Goodman
Chief Technology Officer, Glue Solutions, Inc. (Boston)
Woods, Deborah
2009
Daniel Fabricant
Senior Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Devor, Jonathan
2008
David Charbonneau
Co-Founder & CTO at TrustedNewsScore, Israel
Cooper, Randall
2008
Ramesh Narayan
Private Investor, Chicago
2008
Christopher Stubbs
Associate Professor of Physics, Wellesley College
2008
Matthew Holman
Research Astronomer, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, University
2008
Lars Hernquist
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Caltech
Lai, Kamson
2008
Giovanni Fazio
Director, Head of Data Science, Alma
Kondratko, Paul
2007
Lincoln Greenhill
Head of Non-Linear Marketv Data Tools, Millennium (London)
Westover, Michael
2007
John Huchra
Manager of Capabilities, QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
2007
Robert Kirshner
Professor of Astronomy, Univ of Virginia
2007
Charles Alcock
Professor of Astronomy and Dean's Research Fellow, University of Virginia
2007
Bryan Gaensler/Patrick Slane
Associate Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi
2007
Jonathan Grindlay
Associate Research Scientist, Astronomy Dept., Columbia University
2007
Ramesh Narayan
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College
2006
Lars Hernquist
Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz
2006
John Huchra
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton
Schnee, Scott
2006
Alyssa Goodman
Systems Director, Aerospace Corp, Washington DC
2006
James Moran, Raymond Blundell
Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Sun, Ming
2005
William Forman, Stephen Murray
Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2005
Krzysztof Stanek
Research Director, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, National Observatory of Athens
Sollins, Peter
2005
Qizhou Zhang, Paul Ho
Senior Associate Director of Intellectual Property, Harvard University
Fish, Vincent
2004
Mark Reid
Research Scientist, Haystack Observatory
2004
Jonathan Grindlay
Professor of Physics, University of Alberta
Bragg, Ann
2004
Scott Kenyon
Professor of Physics, Director of Anderson-Hancock Planetarium, Marietta College
2004
Dimitar Sasselov
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming
2003
Avi Loeb
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
Herrnstein, Robin
2003
Paul Ho
President, James and Robin Herrnstein Foundation
Lloyd, Don
2003
Lars Hernquist
Sr. Quantitative Model Validation Analyst, First Tech Fed Credit Union (Hillsboro, OR)
Rines, Kenneth
2003
Margaret Geller
Professor of Astronomy & Physics, Western Washington University
Sokasian, Aaron
2003
Lars Hernquist
Chief Technology Officer, DriveWealth, LLC
Wang, Xiaohu
2003
Avi Loeb
Developer, Barclays Capital, NY
Harvey, Daniel
2003
David Wilner
Quantitative Trader, Boulder, CO
Chatterjee, Pinaki
2003
Lars Hernquist, Avi Loeb
Partner/Portfolio Manager, Phase Capital, Boston
2002
Daniel Fabricant, Margaret Geller
Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
2002
Robert Kirshner
Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers
2001
Lars Hernquist
Professor of Physics, University of California at Santa Cruz
Bloser, Peter
2001
Jonathan Grindlay
Research Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire and Space Science Center (EOS)
2001
John Huchra
Professor, University of Western Ontario
2001
Robert Noyes
Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
2001
George Field
Founding Partner, SETH Technologies; Lecturer, Financial Mathematics, University of Chicago
2001
Margaret Geller
Chief Technology Officer, Doma (San Fransisco)
2001
Giovanni Fazio
Astronomer, NRAO, and Research Professor of Astronomy, UVA
Macri, Lucas
2001
John Huchra
Dean of the College of Sciences at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Arce, Hector G.
2001
Alyssa Goodman
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Yale
2000
Shaddia Habbal
Associate Professor of Physics, US Coast Guard Academy
Heyrovsky, David
2000
Dimitar Sasselov
Faculty, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague
2000
Lee Hartman, Giovanni Fazio
Provost and Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
Koranyi, Daniel
2000
Margaret Geller
Renaissance Technologies, NY
Sobczak, Gregory
2000
Jeffrey McClintock
Head, Financial Engineering, Chicago Trading Company
Kleyna, Jan
1999
Margaret Geller
Junior Scientific Researcher in IFA, Univ of Hawaii at Manoa
1999
Margaret Geller
Staff Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute
1999
Margaret Geller
Founder & CEO at Infiniscape, Inc. (NYC)
1999
Ramesh Narayan
Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University
Woods, Eric
1999
Abraham Loeb
Lecturer, Department of Physics, SUNY, Albany
1999
Dimitar Sasselov
Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, MIT
1999
Christopher Kochanek
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State University
1998
Ramesh Narayan
Senior VP, PayPal, Asia; CEO and Co-founder, I Own My Own Data, Inc. and Node (Menlo Park, CA)
Kawamura, Jonathan
1998
Raymond Blundell
Sr. Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Lab
1998
Phillip Myers
Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile
1998
Abraham Loeb
Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University
1998
John Kohl
Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab
1998
Ramesh Narayan
Associate Professor of Astronomy, Harvey Mudd College
1997
Paul Ho
Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Krockenberger, Martin
1997
Robert Noyes
Director of Statistical Data Science, Exact Sciences (Redwood City, CA)
Herrnstein, James
1997
James Moran
Senior Research Scientist, Renaissance Technologies, NY
Yan, Min
1997
Alex Dalgarno
Goldman Sachs, New York
1997
Giovanni Fazio
Professor of Astronomy and Physics, U. of Florida
1996
Robert Kirshner
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Thomas J Barber of Space Studies, Johns Hopkins Univ., STScI; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011
1996
Martin Elvis
Instrument Support Scientist, LBT Observatory, University of Arizona
1995
George Field
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Rochester
1995
Irwin Shapiro
Head of Science Operations, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
1995
Margaret Geller
Professor of Physics, Brown University
1995
Friedrich Thielemann
Group Leader for Theoretical Physics at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and
Joint Faculty Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Tennessee
1995
Margaret Geller
Professor of Physics, Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany
Pyne, Ted
1995
Mark Birkinshaw
Principal, AQR Capital Management
Wallington, Sylvanie
1995
Ramesh Narayan
Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Connecticut
Wiseman, Jennifer
1995
Paul Ho
Senior Project Scientist, NASA/GSFC
1994
Jonathan Grindlay
Professor, Director of San Francisco State University Observatory and Hagar Planetarium
Garretson, Dan
1994
E. Carlson, George Field
Founder, FreightDesk.ai
Marzke, Ronald
1994
John Huchra
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Associate Dean of College of Science & Engineering, San Francisco State
1993
George Field
Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, Johns Hopkins
Chernin, Lawrence
1993
Collin Masson
Sr. Director of Data Sciences, GoGuardian
1993
Robert Kirshner
Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian National University, Nobel Laureate, Physics
1993
Margaret Geller
Professor of Physics, Drexel University
1993
Margaret Geller
Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Davies, Melvyn
1992
Willy Benz
Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Lund Observatory, Sweden
1992
Willy Benz
Managing Partner at Recon Strategy
Smith, Robert
1992
Robert Kirshner
MPS Senior Advisor for Facilities for NSF
1992
Paul Ho
Professor of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts
1991
Phil Myers
Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Sams, Bruce
1991
Costas Papaliolios
IT Security Specialist, Munich
Deutsch, Lynn
1990
Giovanni Fazio
(Deceased) Assistant Professor in Astronomy, Boston University
Strachan, Leonard
1990
John Kohl
US Naval Research Lab, PI for the Ultraviolet Spectro-Coronagraph (UVSC) Pathfinder
Croswell, Ken
1990
David Latham
Author, Berkeley, California
1990
James Moran
Research Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Merrifield, Michael
1990
Steve Kent
Professor of Astronomy, University of Nottingham, England
Wang, Boqi
1989
George Field
Merrill Lynch, New York
Escalante, Vladmir
1988
Alex Dalgarno
Researcher, Institute of Astronomy UNAM, Mexico
Jeffrey, William A.
1988
Robert Rosner
Director, HRL Laboratories
Bailyn, Charles
1987
Jonathan Grindlay
Professor of Astronomy, Yale University
Chapman, Giles
1987
Margaret Geller
Computer Co., England
1987
Jonathan Grindlay
Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters
1987
Alex Dalgarno
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, John Hopkins University
Keto, Eric
1987
Paul Ho
Staff Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired
Fushiki, Ikko
1986
Donald Lamb
Ink Development Corp., San Mateo, CA
Madejski, Grzegorz
1986
Daniel Schwartz
Staff Physicist, Kavli Institute, Stanford University
Postman, Marc
1986
Margaret Geller
Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute
1986
George Field, William Press
Director, Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA), Simons Foundation and Chair of the Department and am the Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy on the Class of 1897 Foundation, Princeton
Zdziarski, Andrezej
1986
Alan Lightman
Professor of Astronomy, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland
1985
Leon Golub
Director of Programs and Projects, NASA Ames
1985
Donald Lamb
NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL
Connor, Brian J.
1985
A. Edward Lilley
BC Consulting, New Zealand
Johnson, Bettye
1985
Peter Smith
Physicist, NIST
1985
Mark Reid
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Calvin College
Popp, Bruce
1985
Robert Rosner
ATA Certified Translator, Bien Fait Translation and Patent Services
1985
Giovanni Fazio
Former Editor in Chief, Sky & Telescope Magazine; AAS Press Officer
1984
George Field
Professor of Mathematics, University of Exeter
Cruz-Gonzales, Irene
1984
John Huchra
Professor of Astronomy, Institute de Astronomia, UNAM
1984
R. Rosner
Professor, University of Hamburg
Hertz, Paul
1983
Jonathan Grindlay
Director of Astrophysics Division, NASA
Garay, Guido
1983
James Moran
Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile
Marshall, Herman
1983
Harvey Tananbaum
Research Physicist, MIT
Beers, Timothy
1983
Margaret Geller
Professor of Astrophysics, Physics Department, University of Notre Dame
McMillan, Stephen L.
1983
Alan Lightman
Professor of Physics & Atomospheric Science, Drexel University
1983
Nathaniel Carleton
Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
1982
Giovanni Fazio
Professor of Astronomy, Catholic University; Director of Citizen Science Programs (NASA, Heliophysics Education Consortium); Astrophysicist and Director- NASA SpaceMath@NASA and The Astronomy Café.
Halpern, Jules
1982
Jonathan Grindlay
Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University
Pryor, Carlton
1982
Michael Lecar
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers University
Lugger, Phyllis
1982
William Liller, George Field
Professor of Astronomy, Indiana University
Jaffe, Daniel
1981
Giovanni Fazio
Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas and Vice President for Research UT
Roberge, Wayne
1981
Alex Dalgarno
Professor of Astrophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Baliunas, Sallie
1980
Andrea Dupree
Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (Retired)
Leach, Robert
1980
Herbert Gursky
Staff Scientist, Astronomy Dept., San Diego State
Stier, Mark
1980
Giovanni Fazio
Program Manager/Principal Scientist, Raytheon Optical Systems
Rice, Walter L.
1980
Stephen Strom, John Huchra
(Deceased)
Topka, Kenneth P.
1980
Paul Gorenstein
Solar Physics Research Corp., Palo Alto, CA
Vishniac, Ethan
1980
William Press
Prof. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster Univ.; Editor-in-Chief, Astrophysical Journal
Feigelson, Eric
1980
Ricardo Giacconi
Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Penn. State
Rodriguez, Luis
1979
Eric Chaisson
Professor of Astronomy, Institute de Astronomia/UNAM, Mexico
Shapiro, Paul
1979
George Field
Professor of Astronomy, University of Texas
Elmegreen, Debra
1979
William Liller
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Vassar College, former president, AAS
Butler, Scott E.
1979
Alex Dalgarno
Stockbroker, Price & Marshall Inc.
Hartquist, Thomas
1978
Alex Dalgarno
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK
Carney, Bruce
1978
William Liller
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of North Carolina
DeCampli, William
1978
A.G.W. Cameron
Professor of Cardiac Surgery, University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Knobloch, Edgar
1978
David Layzer
Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
Liebovitch, Larry
1978
Myron Lecar, George. Rybicki, C.C. Lin
Prof. of Physics; Dean, Div. of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Queens College, CUNY
Aaronson, Marc
1977
Giovanni Fazio
(Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
Mariska, John
1977
George Withbroe
Research Professor, George Mason University
Perrenod, Steven C.
1977
George Field
Orion Marketing
Rosenberg, Marlene
1976
G. Kalman
Research Scientist, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Wright, Edward L.
1976
Giovanni Fazio
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
Cravens, Thomas
1975
Alex Dalgarno
Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas
Black, John H.
1975
Alex Dalgarno
Professor, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Goad, Larry E.
1975
Alex Dalgarno
Scientist, Litton Itek Optical Systems
Lada, Charles
1975
A. Edward Lilley
Senior Scientist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Zeilik , Michael
1975
Alex Dalgarno
(Deceased) Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Retired, Cosmic Light Productions, LLC
Lathrop, John Douglass
1974
David Layzer
Williams College, then Navy Research
Peterson, Ruth Carol
1974
Eugene Avrett
Research Associate, Lick Observatory; President and CEO, Astrophysical Advances, Palo Alto, CA
Wiesel, William Edward
1974
Michael Lecar
Aerospace Engineering, Air Force Institute of Technology
Forman, Christine Jones
1974
William Liller
Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Keppel, Jean (Warren) (Goad)
1974
Jay Frogel
Educator, Yavapai College
Onello, Joseph Stanley
1974
Alex Dalgarno
Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor, SUNY, Cortland, Visiting Research Professor, Cornell, Research Adjunct, University of Montana
Carbon, Duane Francis
1973
Owen Gingerich
Research Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center
Chromey, Frederick Rao
1973
I. J. Danziger
Professor of Astronomy, Former Director of Vassar College Observatory
Forman, William Richard
1973
William Liller
Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Kurucz, Robert Louis
1973
Eugene Avrett
(Deceased) Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Stefanik, Robert Phillip
1973
Wolfgang Kalkofen
Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Allen, John William
1973
Leo Goldberg
(Deceased) Professor of Physics Emeritus, Boise State University
Munro, Richard Harding
1973
George Withbroe
Ball Aerospace
1972
Giovanni Fazio
CEA Saclay, (former) Director-General, European Southern Observatory, Germany
1972
Leo Goldberg
(Deceased) Viroflay, France
1972
Giovanni Fazio
(Deceased) Professor of Physics, MIT & Director of George W. Wallace Jr. Observatory, MIT
1972
I. J. Danziger
Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz
1972
A. Edward Lilley
Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University, Retired
Chipman, Eric George
1972
Eugene Avrett
NOAA
Kalaghan, Paul Michael
1972
Alex Dalgarno
Vice Provost, Northeastern University
Schwarz, Joseph Hilary Samuel
1972
Alex Dalgarno
Software Developer/Manager, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
Vernazza, Jorge Enrique
1972
Robert Noyes
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Wood, Arthur Thompson Jr.
1972
Robert Noyes
Senior Software Developer, Washington, DC
1971
David Layzer
Professor of Physics, San Francisco State University
1971
Giovanni Fazio
Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
1971
Henry Helmken
Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, MIT, NASA Astronaut on Hubble Space Telescope upgrade mission
1971
Alex Dalgarno
(Deceased) Professor of Astronomy & Physics, UCLA
1971
Charles Whitney
Astronomer, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ
1971
Leo Goldberg
Professor of Astronomy, Sackler Institute, University of Tel Aviv
Cheng, Chung-Chieh
1970
Giovanni Fazio
(Deceased) NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
1970
Owen Gingerich
Senior Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
1970
Richard McCray
Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley
Downes, Dennis Neil
1970
Alan Maxwell
Department Head, Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimetrique, France, Retired
Hall, Donald Norman Blake
1970
Robert Noyes
(Deceased) Astronomer, Institute of Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Hilo
Simon, Theodore
1970
Eugene Avrett
Astronomer, IfA, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
1970
Fred Whipple
Emeritus Professor, Astronomy Department, Cornell University
1969
Robert. Noyes, W. Parkinson
(Deceased) Founder Digi-phase, Researcher Lockheed
1969
Wolfgang Kalkofen
Emeritus Assoc. Professor of Astronomy, State University of NY at Stony Brook
1969
A. Edward Lilley
(Deceased) Research Scientist, MIT/Haystack Observatory
Blanchard, Paul Adam II
1969
Alex Dalgarno
 
1969
Carl Sagan
Director of Astrobiology & Space Research, NASA Ames Research Center
1969
Eugene Avrett, Robert Noyes
(Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, Williams College
Tech, Jack Laurence
1969
Leo Goldberg
(Deceased)
1968
Leo Goldberg
Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University
Regas, James Leon
1968
Richard Goody
Professor, Geosciences, California State University at Chico
1968
Giovanni Fazio
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Doyle, Holly Thomis
1968
David Layzer
Inventor
Doyle, Robert Ogden
1968
Leo Goldberg
CEO, skyBuilders.com
1968
Leo Goldberg
Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Kaufman, Michele
1968
David Layzer
Academic Program Specialist, Ohio State University, Retired
1968
Charles Whitney
(Deceased), Los Alamos National Laboratory
1968
Owen Gingerich
Research Professor, University of Colorado
1968
C. C. Lin (MIT)
(Deceased) Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, University of California, San Diego
1968
David Layzer
Professor of Astronomy, Oxford University, Emeritus
1968
Alan Maxwell
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Princeton University; Nobel Laureate in Physics
1968
A. Edward Lilley
Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA
Rich, John Charles
1967
Leo Goldberg
Retired General; retired head of Perkin-Elmer
1967
Carl Sagan
General Manager/Astronomer, Vanguard Research
1966
Charles Whitney
Professor Emeritus, Penn State U.
Sacks, William Michael
1966
David Layzer
Radiologist (retired), Tucson
1966
Giovanni. Fazio
Astrophysicist, NASA
1965
William Liller
Software Engineer, Microsoft, Retired
1965
David Layzer
Assoc. Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada
1965
Carl Sagan
(Deceased) NASA/Ames Research Center
1965
David Layzer
Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University
Gundermann, Ellen
1965
A. Edward Lilley
Staff, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Caltech, Retired
1964
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) engineer at McDonnell Douglas and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
1964
A. Edward Lilley
(Deceased) Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, Caltech
1964
Leo Goldberg
(Deceased) Advisor, Post Doc Program, NASA
Huguenin, George Richard
1964
A. Edward Lilley
(Deceased) Prof. radio astronomy, U Mass Amherst; founded Millitech
Stienon, Francis Michael
1964
William Liller
Assistant Professor, Smith College; Four Colleges Observatory
1964
William Liller
(Retired) Scientific Staff, NOAO, Tucson (Photographer)
Wanner, James Franklin
1964
Morton Roberts
 
Godfredsen, Eugene Alan
1963
David Layzer
 
1962
Charles Whitney
1962
Charles Whitney
(Deceased) Senior Astronomer Emeritus, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Professor Emeritus, Astronomy and of the History of Science, Harvard University
1962
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
San Diego State University
1962
A. Edward Lilley
Treasurer, American Astronomical Society of the Pacific; Aerospace Corp., Retired
1962
Alan. Cook
Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired
1961
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Astronomer, Sacramento Peak Observatory
Southworth, Richard Boynton
1961
Fred Whipple
Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
1960
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Deceased
1960
B. Bok, T. Gold
Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired
1959
David Layzer
(Deceased) Institute of Radio Astronomy, Argentina
1958
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
(Deceased); Georgetown; US Army Mapping; gay-rights advocate/marriage equality advocate
1958
Bart Bok, David Layzer
Deceased
Kassim, May Arif Kaftan*
1958
Bart Bok, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
(Deceased) Research Staff, SUNY, Retired
1958
Thomas Gold
(Deceased) Research Scientist, University of California, Berkeley
1958
B. Bok, H. Weaver, T.K. Menon
(Deceased) USRA, (formerly with NSF, NRAO)
1958
Fred Whipple
(Deceased) Lecturer, Harvard University
1958
Bart Bok, Thomas Gold, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Deceased
1957
Fred Whipple
Emeritus Staff, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM
1956
Bart Bok
Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University
Smith, Henry Joseph
1956
Cecilia Payne-Gaposckin
(Deceased)
1956
Fred Whipple
(Deceased) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
1956
 
(Deceased), Professor of Astronomy, University of Hawaii
Matthews, Thomas Arnold
1956
Bart Bok
University of Maryland, Radio astronomer who found the position of 3C 48 in 1960
1956
Bart Bok
Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of British Columbia
1955
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Director, NRAO
Lilley, Arthur Edward
1955
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
1955
 
(Deceased) University of Texas
1955
Donald Menzel
(Deceased), Director of the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy
1955
R. N. Thomas
(Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
de Jonge, Herman Albert Joost
1954
Bart Bok
 
1953
B. Bok, F. Whipple
(Deceased) NASA
1953
Philip M. Morse (MIT)
(Deceased) Professor Astronomy, Caltech
1953
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Director, Lowell Observatory
Naqvi, Ali-Mehdi
1952
Donald Menzel
 
1952
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Director, Kodaikanal Observatory, Indian Institute for Astrophysics, IAU president
Warwick, Constance Sawyer*
1952
Bart Bok
Scientist, NIST
1952
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Assistant Professor, Princeton
1952
Harlow Shapley
Deceased
1951
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Astronomer, Harvard College Observatory
1951
Fred Whipple
(Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, University of Colorado
Hamid, Salah El-Din
1950
Fred Whipple
(Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Cairo, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Layzer, David
1950
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, Harvard University
1950
Bart Bok
Prof. of Astronomy, U. Washington
Wyatt, Stanley Porter
1950
Bart Bok, Harlow Shapley
(Deceased) Faculty, U. Illinois
1949
Fred Whipple
Penn State
1949
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, RPI; NSF Program Director for Solar-Terrestrial Research
1948
Bart Bok
(Deceased), Prof. of Astronomy, Purdue
1948
Bart Bok, Cecilia Payne-Gaposckin
(Deceased), editor-in-chief, Sky & Telescope Magazine
1948
Donald Menzel, Fred Whipple
(Deceased)
1947
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Bosscha Observatory
1946
Fred Whipple
(Deceased) Aberdeen Proving Ground; U. California, Berkeley
1946
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Chief Scientist, Perkin-Elmer
1944
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Georgetown University
Petrie, William
1944
Donald Menzel
 
Steel, Helen Rawson*
1943
Donald Menzel
 
1943
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, UCLA
1943
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, U. of Toronto, & Director, David Dunlop Observatory
Miller, Walter John S.J.
1943
Harlow Shapley, Bart Bok
(Deceased)
1943
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) National Center for Atmospheric Research (Founding Director)
1942
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Randolph-Macon College; Acting Director, Maria Mitchell
1942
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1942
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Harvard College Observatory
1941
Harlow Shapley
(Deceased) Buffalo, Wellesley, Carnegie, Trinity
1941
Harlow Shapley, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
(Deceased) Prof of Astronomy, Mt. Holyoke, Hunter, William Paterson College
Norman, Daniel
1939
 
 
1938
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Director, Maria Mitchell Observatory and research astronomer at Yale
1938
Harlow Shapley, Bart Bok
(Deceased), Indiana University, NM State Univ.
1938
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Director, Sacramento Peak Observatory
1938
Donald Menzel
(Deceased) Director, Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, AZ
Watson, Fletcher Guard Jr.
1938
Harlow Shapley
(Deceased) Harvard Ed. School/Harvard Project Physics
Dimitroff, George Zakharieff
1937
 
(Deceased) co-author of Harvard Book on Astronomy: instrumentation; Boston U.; Dartmouth
1937
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Indiana University Emeritus Professor
1937
Bart Bok
(Deceased) California Institute of Technology
1936
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Case Western Reserve University
1936
Harlow Shapley
(Deceased) Director, Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University
Sayer, Arthur Robert
1935
Donald Menzel
Northwestern University
1934
Harlow Shapley
(Deceased) Director of Armagh Observatory, Ireland, Founder Irish Astronomical Journal
1934
Bart Bok
(Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Michigan
Andrews, Loring Beal
1933
Bart Bok
 
1933
Harlow Shapley
(Deceased) Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Agnes Scott College
1932
John H. Van Vleck
(Deceased) Instructor in Mathematics, South Suburban College, So. Holland, Illinois
1932
 
(Deceased) NRC
1931
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
(Deceased) University of Toronto
Robinson, Limmye Vernon
1931
 
(Deceased) Variable Stars author
1930
 
(Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Virginia
1929
 
(Deceased) University of Toronto
1925
 
(Deceased) Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University (bio)
 
 
 
 
*Radcliffe