# Alumni From our first graduate--[Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0023//0000450.000.html) 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](https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~brian/), [Joseph Taylor](https://dof.princeton.edu/people/joseph-hooton-taylor), and [Adam Reiss](https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/adam-riess/). In 2013, our alumni returned to Cambridge to celebrate [All the Stars: A Celebration of Harvard Astronomy - The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences](/alumni-reunion-2013). SortNameYearAdvisorCurrent PositionDiTomasso, 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 [Rashkovetskyi, Michael ](https://rashkovetsky.im/) 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 [Shallue](https://shallue.me/), C[hristopher ](https://shallue.me/) 2025 Julian Munoz, Sean Carroll Research Engineer, Gemini Team, Google DeepMind [Cornelison](https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-cornelison-968142149/), James 2024 John Kovac Margaret Geoppert Mayer Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory [Foley](https://eps.harvard.edu/people/mike-foley/), [Michael ](https://eps.harvard.edu/people/mike-foley/) 2024 Alyssa Goodman Agriculture and Climate Data Science Postdoc Fellow, Dept of Earth & Planetary Science, Harvard [Delgado](https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/ana-maria-delgado/), [Ana Maria ](https://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/directory/ana-maria-delgado/) 2024 Lars Hernquist Researcher, Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University [Murray](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-zachary-murray-502568103/), [Zachary ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-zachary-murray-502568103/) 2024 Matt Holman Excellence Fellow at the University Cote D'Azure (Nice, France) [Siwek](https://mssiwek.github.io/), [Magdalena ](https://mssiwek.github.io/) 2024 Lars Hernquist Junior Fellow, Simmons Society of Fellows, Columbia [Pass](http://epass.space/about), [Emily ](http://epass.space/about) 2024 David Charbonneau Torres Postdoctoral Fellow for Exoplanet Research, MIT [Broekgaarden, Floor](http://www.broekgaarden.nl/floor/wordpress/) 2023 Edo Berger Assistant Professor, UC San Diego [Palumbo, Daniel](https://bhi.fas.harvard.edu/people/daniel-palumbo/) 2023 Michael Johnson Harvard Black Hole Initiative Fellow [Karim, Tanveer](https://tanveerkarim.com/) 2023 Daniel Eisenstein University Toronto FAS Fellow and Dunlap Fellow [Van Son, Lieke](https://liekevanson.github.io/) 2023 Selma de Mink Research Fellow, Flatiron; and Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Fellow at Princeton University [Law, Charles](https://claw-astro.github.io/) 2023 Karin Öberg Hubble Fellow, University of Virginia [Ment, Kristo](https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/kxm821) 2023 David Charbonneau Postdoc Fellow, Penn State [McGruder, Chima](https://www.chima-mcgruder.com/) 2023 Mercedes Lopez-Morales Postdoctoral Fellow, Climatebase [Garcia-Mejia, Juliana](https://physics.mit.edu/research/pappalardo-fellowships-in-physics/juliana-garcia-mejia/) 2023 David Charbonneau MIT, Pappalardo Fellowship in Physics & Heising-Simons Foundation 51 Pegasi b Fellowship [Wu, Xiaohan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiaohan-wu-astro/) 2022 Daniel Eisenstein Machine Learning Engineer, Sobeys [Wilson, Maurice](https://www.mauricewilson.com/#AnchorhomeSection) 2022 John Raymond, John Eastman Post Doc, NCAR High Altitude Observatory [Weaver, Ian](https://www.seti.org/our-scientists/ian-weaver) 2022 Mercedes Lopez-Morales Unistellar Program Lead, SETI Institute [Naidu, Rohan](https://physics.mit.edu/research/pappalardo-fellowships-in-physics/rohan-naidu-pappalardo-fellow/) 2022 Charles Conroy Papalardo Fellow, MIT [Maksimova, Nina](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninamaksimova/) 2022 Daniel Eisenstein David Foundation Scholar, St. Andrews University [Hadzhiyska, Boryana](https://boryanah.github.io/) 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 [Violette, Daniel](https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/600/ECSS/Daniel-Violette.html) 2022 Jonathan Grindlay Post-Doctoral Fellow, NASA [Alam, Munazza](https://www.linkedin.com/in/munazzaalam/) 2021 Mercedes Lopez-Morales Assistant Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute​​​​​ [Yuan, Sihan](https://sandyyuan.github.io/) 2021 Daniel Eisenstein KIPAC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stanford [Gossage, Seth](https://ciera.northwestern.edu/directory/seth-gossage/) 2021 Charles Conroy CIERA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern [Medina, Amber](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-medina-629b65224/) 2021 David Charbonneau Operations Research Analyst, US Department of Defense [Pegues, Jamila](https://www.jamilapegues.com/) 2021 Karin Oberg Post-Doctoral Fellow, STScI [Price, Ellen](https://emprice.org/) 2021 Karin Oberg 51 Pegasi b Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago [Gomez, Sebastian](https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/sebastian-gomez) 2021 Edo Berger Post-Doctoral Fellow, STScI, Baltimore [Eftekhari, Tarraneh](https://www.tarraneheftekhari.com/) 2021 Edo Berger NASA Einstein Fellow, Northwestern University [Pop, Ana-Roxana](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-roxana-pop/) 2021 Lars Hernquist ML Research Scientist, Meta [Carmichael, Theron](https://www.theroncarmichael.com/) 2021 David Latham NSF MPA-Ascend Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Hawaii [Zelko, Ioana](https://ioanazelko.com/about-2/) 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) [Huang, Jane](https://www.astro.columbia.edu/content/jane-huang) 2020 Karin Oberg, Sean Andrews Assistant Professor, Columbia [Villar, Victoria Ashley](http://ashleyvillar.com/) 2020 Edo Berger Assistant Professor in Astronomy, Harvard [Todd, Zoe](https://chem.wisc.edu/staff/todd-zoe/) 2020 Dimitar Sasselov Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, UW-Madison [Zucker, Catherine](https://catherinezucker.github.io/) 2020 Douglas Finkbeiner, Allyssa Goodman Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Speagle, Joshua](https://joshspeagle.com/) 2020 Charles Conroy, Daniel Eisenstein, Douglas Finkbeiner Assistant Professor, Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto [Diamond-Lowe, Hannah](http://hdl.exoplanets.dk/) 2020 David Charbonneau Senior Researcher, Technical University of Denmark [Gu, Meng](https://menggu-astro.github.io/) 2019 Charles Conroy Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong [Shan, Yutong](https://www.mn.uio.no/geo/english/people/aca/phab/yuts/) 2019 Jennifer Yee Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Planetary Habitability, Oslo Wang, Xiawei 2019 Avi Loeb Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group [Blanchard, Peter](https://ciera.northwestern.edu/directory/peter-blanchard/) 2019 Edo Berger CIERA Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern [Garrison, Lehman](https://www.simonsfoundation.org/people/lehman-garrison/) 2019 Daniel Eisenstein Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute's Scientific Computing Core [Cook, Benjamin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bacook17/) 2019 Charles Conroy Senior Quantitative Researcher, Semanteon Capital [Alexander, Kate](https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/kate-alexander) 2018 Edo Berger Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona [Becerra, Fernando](https://www.fernandobecerra.com/) 2018 Lars Hernquist Data Science and Visualization Freelancer, Chile [Chen, How-Huan](mailto:chen.howhuan@gmail.com) 2018 Alyssa Goodman Quantitative Researcher, JG Investments, Shanghai [Choi, Jieun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/-jieunchoi/) 2018 Charles Conroy Senior Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Netflix, Los Angeles [Christian, Pierre](https://www.pierrechristian.com/) 2018 Avi Loeb Assistant Professor in Physics, Fairfield University, Connecticut [Chua, Kunting](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddie-chua-astro/?originalSubdomain=sg) 2018 Lars Hernquist Computational Physicist, the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore [Cowperthwaite, Philip](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pcowpert/) 2018 Edo Berger Senior Data Scientist, Topan Merrill [Dierickx, Marion](https://mdierick.github.io/) 2018 Avi Loeb Program Director, NSF Office of Polar Programs [Faesi, Christopher](https://physics.uconn.edu/person/christopher-faesi/) 2018 Charles Lada Assistant Professor, Physics Department, University of Connecticut Guo, Xinyi 2018 Ramesh Narayan D. E. Shaw Research [Kelley, Luke](https://astro.berkeley.edu/people/luke-zoltan-kelley/) 2018 Lars Hernquist Assistant Adjunct Professor, Astronomy Dept., Berkeley [Loomis, Ryan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-loomis-51175321a/?trk=public_profile_samename-profile) 2018 Karin Oberg Associate Scientist, National Radio Astronomy Observatory [Portillo, Stephen](https://concordia.ab.ca/science/departments/mathematical-physical-sciences/faculty/stephen-portillo/) 2018 Douglas Finkbeiner Assistant Professor of Physics, Concordia University, Edmonton [Tripathi, Anjali](https://web.mit.edu/tripathi/www/bio.html) 2018 Sean Andrews Science Ambassador, NASA Exoplanet Program [Graninger, Dawn](https://space.jhuapl.edu/people/dawn-graninger) 2017 Karin Oberg Senior Professional Staff I, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab [Karkare, Kirit](https://web.stanford.edu/~kkarkare/) 2017 John Kovac Assistant Professor of Physics, Boston University [MacGregor, Meredith](https://www.colorado.edu/casa/meredith-macgregor) 2017 David J. Wilner Assistant Professor in Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at University of Colorado Boulder [Mocz, Philip](https://pmocz.github.io/) 2017 Lars Hernquist Software Engineer, Flatiron Institute [Ranjan, Sukrit](https://www.lpl.arizona.edu/faculty/sukrit-ranjan) 2017 Dimitar Sasselov Assistant Professor, Planetary Sciences, Univ of Arizona [Schaefer, Laura](https://earth.stanford.edu/people/laura-schaefer) 2017 Dimitar Sasselov Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Science, Stanford [Suresh, Joshua](https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-suresh-908644111/) 2017 Lars Hernquist Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation [Ting, Yuan-Sen](https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~yting/) 2017 Charles Conroy Associate Professor of Astronomy, The Ohio State University [Vanderburg, Andrew](https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/andrew-vanderburg/) 2017 David Latham Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard [Wellons, Sarah](https://www.wesleyan.edu/academics/faculty/swellons/profile.html) 2017 Lars Hernquist Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan University [Bray, Aaron](https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-bray-193063107) 2016 Daniel Eisenstein Associate, Honigman LLP, Chicago [Czekala, Ian](https://iancze.github.io/) 2016 Sean Andrews Lecturer, University of Saint Andrews [Dittman, Jason](https://astro.ufl.edu/directory/jason-dittmann/) 2016 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor, University of Florida [Drout, Maria](https://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~drout/) 2016 Edo Berger Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto [Green, Gregory](http://greg.ory.gr/) 2016 Douglas Finkbeiner Sofja Kovalevskaja Group Leader, Max Plank Institute for Astronomy [Newton, Elisabeth](https://physics.dartmouth.edu/people/elisabeth-newton) 2016 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth Piso, Ana-Maria 2016 Karin Oberg R&D Lead, KeborMed [Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente](https://vrodgom.github.io/) 2016 Lars Hernquist Associate Professor, Institute of Radioastronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) in Morelia, Mexico [Rosenfeld, Katherine](https://www.linkedin.com/in/krosenf) 2016 Sean Andrews Research Scientist, Institute for Disease Modeling, Seattle [Slepian, Zachary](https://astro.ufl.edu/directory/zachary-slepian/) 2016 Daniel Eisenstein Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Florida [Woolsey, Lauren](https://www.grcc.edu/physicalsciences/laurenwoolsey) 2016 Stephen Cranmer and Alyssa Goodman Assistant Professor, Physical Sciences Department, Grand Rapids Community College [Dressing, Courtney](http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~dressing/) 2015 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor of Astronomy, UC Berkeley [Laskar, Tanmoy](https://faculty.utah.edu/u6039460-TANMOY_LASKAR/hm/index.hml;jsessionid=A6821CF21BB60B7900252CFF64105DBE) 2015 Edo Berger Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Utah [Li, Gongjie](https://www.physics.gatech.edu/user/gongjie-li) 2015 Avi Loeb Associate Professor, Physics, Georgia Tech Moe, Maxwell 2015 Rosanne DiStefano Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming [Lunnan, Ragnhild](https://www.su.se/english/profiles/rlunn-1.326377) 2015 Edo Berger Assistant Professor, Stockholm University [Nelson, Dylan](https://www.ita.uni-heidelberg.de/~dnelson/) 2015 Lars Hernquist Research Group Leader, ITA, University of Heidelberg [Rugheimer, Sarah](https://www.sarahrugheimer.com/) 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 [Zhu, Yucong](https://www.linkedin.com/in/yucongzhu/) 2015 Ramesh Narayan Senior Vice President, Qualitative Researcher, D. E. Shaw Group, New York Beky, Bence 2014 Matt Holman Software Engineer, Google, Boston [Fong, Wen-fai](https://www.physics.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/wenfai-fong.html) 2014 Edo Berger Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University [Sanders, Nathan](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanesanders) 2014 Alicia Soderberg Vice President, Data & AI, Harvard Business School Publishing [Torrey, Paul](https://as.virginia.edu/faculty-profile/paul-torrey) 2014 Lars Hernquist Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Virginia [Berta, Zach](http://space.mit.edu/~zkbt/) 2013 David Charbonneau Assistant Professor, Astrophysical & Planetary Science, University of Colorado, Boulder [Dawson, Rebekah](https://science.psu.edu/astro/people/rxd44) 2013 Ruth Murray-Clay Associate Professor, Penn State, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics [Harris, Robert](http://www.astro.illinois.edu/people/rjharris) 2013 Sean Andrews Data Scientist, Verizon Media, Urbana-Champaign, IL [Lanz, Lauranne](https://science.tcnj.edu/academic-information/faculty-research-teaching-interests/physics-faculty/) 2013 Howard Smith Assistant Professor, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ [Muñoz, Diego](https://sites.northwestern.edu/diegomunoz/) 2013 Lars Hernquist Assistant Professor of Physics, Northwestern [Penna, Robert](https://sunypoly.edu/faculty-and-staff/robert-penna.html) 2013 Ramesh Narayan Assistant Professor of Physics, SUNY Polytechnic Institute [Snyder, Greg](https://www.stsci.edu/stsci-research/research-directory/gregory-f-snyder) 2013 Lars Hernquist Archive Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute [Stone, Nicholas](https://www.ncstone.space/) 2013 Avi Loeb Theoretical Astrophysicist and Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem [Steiner, James Francis](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~jsteiner/) 2012 Jeffery McClintock Astrophysicist, High Energy Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge [Friedman, Andrew Samuel](http://web.mit.edu/asf/www/) 2012 Robert Kirshner (Deceased) Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Astrophysics & Space Science, UC, San Diego [Blecha, Laura Elizabeth](https://www.astro.ufl.edu/people/faculty/laura-blecha/) 2012 Avi Loeb Associate Professor, Physics, University of Florida [Su, Meng](http://www.physics.hku.hk/people/academic/6322) 2012 Doug Finkbeiner Associate Professor, University of Hong Kong [Maruca, Bennett Andrew](http://sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu/people_lastname.html#M) 2012 Justin Kasper Associate Professor of Astronomy and Physics, University of Delaware [Ballard, Sarah Ashley](http://www.astro.washington.edu/users/sarahba/Welcome.html) 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) [Hao, Heng](http://www.sissa.it/component/whitepages/?view=people&task=person&contact_dn=dWlkPWhhb2hlbmcsb3U9UGVvcGxlLGRjPXNpc3NhLGRjPWl0) 2011 Martin Elvis Data Scientist/Staff Engineer, Samsung SDS, San Francisco [Neilsen, Joseph](http://space.mit.edu/home/jneilsen/Joey_Neilsen/Home.html) 2011 Julia Lee Assistant Professor, Physics, Villanova [Besla, Gurtina](https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/gurtina-besla) 2011 Lars Hernquist Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona [Shcherbakov, Roman](https://astroman.org/) 2011 Ramesh Narayan Software Engineer, Google (Durham, NC) [Tassev, Svetlin](https://www.princeton.edu/astro/people/post-docs/) 2011 Lars Hernquist Physics Teacher, Braintree High School (MA) [Mandel, Kaisey](https://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/people/Kaisey.Mandel) 2011 Robert Kirshner Professor of Astrostatistics and Data Science, University of Cambridge [Mao, Sui Ann](http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/140325/employee-page?c=632489&employee_id=35556) 2011 Gaensler/Finkbeiner Scientific Radion Astronomer, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany [Hayward, Christopher](http://www.h-its.org/english/research/tap/people.php?we_objectID=842) 2011 Lars Hernquist Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute, New York [Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre](http://www.physics.northwestern.edu/people/personalpages/CFaucher-Giguere.html) 2010 Lars Hernquist Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Northwestern University Nantais, Julie 2010 John Huchra Professor of Physics, Andres Bello National University, Chile [Fuentes, Cesar](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~cfuentes/home.html) 2010 Matthew Holman Assistant Professor in Astronomy, University of Chile [Munoz, Joseph](http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~jamunoz/Home.html) 2010 Avi Loeb Assistant Group Leader, Lincoln Laboratory, MA [Hughes, Meredith](http://amhughes.web.wesleyan.edu/) 2010 David Wilner Associate Professor of Astronomy, Wesleyan College [O'Leary, Ryan](https://jila.colorado.edu/about/directory/o) 2010 Avi Loeb Software Engineer, Google, Boulder, CO [Steinhardt, Charles](http://www.pma.staging.caltech.edu/content/charles-l-steinhardt) 2010 Martin Elvis Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Physics, UNiversity of Missouri [Tchekhovskoy,Alexandre](https://www.physics.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core-faculty/Alexander-tchekhovskoy.html) 2010 Ramesh Narayan Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Northwestern University [Pineda, Jaime](http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/jaime-pineda/) 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 [Knutson, Heather](http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~hknutson/Welcome.html) 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 [McQuinn, Matthew](http://faculty.washington.edu/mcquinn/Welcome.html) 2009 Lars Hernquist Professor of Astronomy, University of Washington [Blake, Cullen](http://sites.sas.upenn.edu/chblake/) 2009 David Charbonneau/David Latham Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania [Eliza Kempton](http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/kemptone/) (nee Miller-Ricci) 2009 Dimitar Sasselov Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Maryland [Koenig, Xavier](http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/index.cfm?fuseAction=people.jumpBio&&iPhonebookId=26900) 2009 Lori Allen Systems Software Engineer, Collins Aerospace [Penev, Kaloyan](http://www.princeton.edu/astro/people/research/) 2009 Dimitar Sasselov Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Texas, Dallas [Foster, Jonathan](http://people.bu.edu/jbfoster/) 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 [Battat, James](http://www.wellesley.edu/physics/people/faculty/battat) 2008 Christopher Stubbs Associate Professor of Physics, Wellesley College [Hartman, Joel](http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~jhartman/) 2008 Matthew Holman Research Astronomer, Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, University [Hopkins, Phillip](http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/Welcome.html) 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 [Modjaz, Maryam](http://physics.as.nyu.edu/object/MaryamModjaz.html) 2007 Robert Kirshner Professor of Astronomy, Univ of Virginia [Kallivayalil, Nitya](http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~njk3r/) 2007 Charles Alcock Professor of Astronomy and Dean's Research Fellow, University of Virginia [Gelfand, Joseph](http://nyuad.nyu.edu/academics/faculty/joseph-gelfand.html) 2007 Bryan Gaensler/Patrick Slane Associate Professor of Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi [Bogdanov,Slavko](http://slavko.org/) 2007 Jonathan Grindlay Associate Research Scientist, Astronomy Dept., Columbia University [Hickox, Ryan](http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hickox/) 2007 Ramesh Narayan Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College [Robertson, Brant](http://www.astro.ucsc.edu/about_department/people/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=brant) 2006 Lars Hernquist Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz [Greene, Jenny](http://www.princeton.edu/astro/people/faculty/jenny-greene/) 2006 John Huchra Professor of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton Schnee, Scott 2006 Alyssa Goodman Systems Director, Aerospace Corp, Washington DC [Marrone, Daniel](https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/marrone.html) 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 [Bonanos, Alceste](http://members.noa.gr/bonanos/) 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 [Heinke, Craig](http://www.physics.ualberta.ca/Faculty/CraigHeinke) 2004 Jonathan Grindlay Professor of Physics, University of Alberta Bragg, Ann 2004 Scott Kenyon Professor of Physics, Director of Anderson-Hancock Planetarium, Marietta College [Jang-Condell, Hannah](http://www.astro.umd.edu/~hannah/) 2004 Dimitar Sasselov Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Wyoming [Furlanetto, Steven](http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~sfurlane/index.htm) 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 [Brown, Warren](http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~wbrown/) 2002 Daniel Fabricant, Margaret Geller Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Jha, Saurabh](http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~saurabh/) 2002 Robert Kirshner Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy, Rutgers [Aguirre, Anthony](http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~aguirre/Home.html) 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) [Barmby, Pauline](http://www.physics.uwo.ca/~pbarmby/) 2001 John Huchra Professor, University of Western Ontario [Charbonneau, David](http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~dcharbon/frames.html) 2001 Robert Noyes Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University [Chou, Hongsong](mailto:hongsongcho@post.harvard.edu) 2001 George Field Founding Partner, SETH Technologies; Lecturer, Financial Mathematics, University of Chicago [Mahdavi, Andisheh](http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~amahdavi/) 2001 Margaret Geller Chief Technology Officer, Doma (San Fransisco) [Ransom, Scott](http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~sransom/) 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 [Allen, Lorraine](mailto:lorraine.a.allen@uscg.mil) 2000 Shaddia Habbal Associate Professor of Physics, US Coast Guard Academy Heyrovsky, David 2000 Dimitar Sasselov Faculty, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Charles University, Prague [Jayawardhana, Ray](http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~rayjay/) 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 [Grogin, Norman](mailto:nagrogin@alumni.princeton.edu) 1999 Margaret Geller Staff Scientist, Space Telescope Science Institute [Barton, Elizabeth](http://www.physics.uci.edu/~ebarton/) 1999 Margaret Geller Founder & CEO at Infiniscape, Inc. (NYC) [Quataert, Eliot](http://astro.berkeley.edu/~eliot/) 1999 Ramesh Narayan Charles A. Young Professor of Astronomy, Princeton University Woods, Eric 1999 Abraham Loeb Lecturer, Department of Physics, SUNY, Albany [Seager, Sara](http://seagerexoplanets.mit.edu/index.htm) 1999 Dimitar Sasselov Professor of Planetary Science and Physics, MIT [Romanowsky, Aaron](http://www.ucolick.org/~romanow/res.html) 1999 Christopher Kochanek Professor of Physics & Astronomy, San Jose State University [Mahadevan, Rohan](http://www.aftermind.com/) 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 [Mardones, Diego](http://www.das.uchile.cl/~diego) 1998 Phillip Myers Associate Professor of Astronomy, University of Chile [Haiman, Zoltan](http://www.astro.columbia.edu/~zoltan/) 1998 Abraham Loeb Professor of Astronomy, Columbia University [Reisenfeld, Dan](mailto:dan.reisenfeld@umontana.edu) 1998 John Kohl Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab [Esin, Ann](http://www.physics.hmc.edu/faculty/esin/index.html) 1998 Ramesh Narayan Associate Professor of Astronomy, Harvey Mudd College [Zhang, Qizhou](http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~qzhang) 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 [Eikenberry, Steve](http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~eiken/) 1997 Giovanni Fazio Professor of Astronomy and Physics, U. of Florida [Riess, Adam](http://www.stsci.edu/~ariess/) 1996 Robert Kirshner Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Thomas J Barber of Space Studies, Johns Hopkins Univ., STScI; Nobel Prize in Physics, 2011 [Kuhn, Olga](mailto:olga.kuhn@alum.mit.edu) 1996 Martin Elvis Instrument Support Scientist, LBT Observatory, University of Arizona [Blackman, Eric](http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~blackman/) 1995 George Field Professor of Physics & Astronomy, University of Rochester [Campbell, Robert](http://www.jive.nl/bob-campbell) 1995 Irwin Shapiro Head of Science Operations, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe [Dell'Antonio, Ian](http://www.noao.edu/noao/scistaff/dellantonio.html) 1995 Margaret Geller Professor of Physics, Brown University [Hix, William](http://web.utk.edu/~whix/) 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 [Mohr, Joseph](http://www.imprs-astro.mpg.de/node/162) 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 [Cool, Adrienne](http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/~cool/) 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 [Carroll, Sean](http://preposterousuniverse.com/) 1993 George Field Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy, Johns Hopkins Chernin, Lawrence 1993 Collin Masson Sr. Director of Data Sciences, GoGuardian [Schmidt, Brian P.](http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~brian/) 1993 Robert Kirshner Vice-Chancellor and President of the Australian National University, Nobel Laureate, Physics [Vogeley, Michael](mailto:vogeley@drexel.edu) 1993 Margaret Geller Professor of Physics, Drexel University [Zabludoff, Ann](https://www.as.arizona.edu/people/faculty/ann-zabludoff) 1993 Margaret Geller Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona Davies, Melvyn 1992 Willy Benz Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics, Lund Observatory, Sweden [Herant, Marc](mailto:herantm@bu.edu) 1992 Willy Benz Managing Partner at Recon Strategy Smith, Robert 1992 Robert Kirshner MPS Senior Advisor for Facilities for NSF [Yun, Min](http://www.astro.umass.edu/~myun/) 1992 Paul Ho Professor of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts [Ladd, Edwin](http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/physics/ladd.html) 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 [Greenhill, Lincoln](http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/~lincoln/) 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 [Garcia, Michael](http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~garcia/) 1987 Jonathan Grindlay Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters [Neufeld, David](http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~neufeld/) 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 [Spergel, David](http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~dns/) 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 [Bookbinder, Jay](mailto:https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/codep/meet-the-team/) 1985 Leon Golub Director of Programs and Projects, NASA Ames [Brainerd, Jerome J.](mailto:jm.brainerd@msfc.nasa.gov) 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](http://www.nist.gov/) [Molnar, Lawrence](http://www.calvin.edu/~lmolnar) 1985 Mark Reid Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Calvin College Popp, Bruce 1985 Robert Rosner ATA Certified Translator, Bien Fait Translation and Patent Services [Tresch Fienberg, Richard](http://aas.org/staff/richard-tresch-fienberg) 1985 Giovanni Fazio Former Editor in Chief, Sky & Telescope Magazine; AAS Press Officer [Berger, Mitchell](http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/mab215/index.html) 1984 George Field Professor of Mathematics, University of Exeter Cruz-Gonzales, Irene 1984 John Huchra Professor of Astronomy, Institute de Astronomia, UNAM [Schmitt, Jurgen](http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/german/persons/schmitt.html) 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 [Vrtilek, Jan](mailto:jvrtilek@cfa.harvard.edu) 1983 Nathaniel Carleton Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Odenwald, Sten](http://www.astronomycafe.net) 1982 Giovanni Fazio Professor of Astronomy, Catholic University; Director of Citizen Science Programs (NASA, Heliophysics Education Consortium); Astrophysicist and Director- NASA S[paceMath@NASA](http://spacemath.gsfc.nasa.gov) 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[.](mailto:John.Black@chalmers.se) 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 [Cesarsky, Catherine Jeanne](mailto:https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/3744/) 1972 Giovanni Fazio CEA Saclay, (former) Director-General, European Southern Observatory, Germany [Cesarsky, Diego Alberto](https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/3067/) 1972 Leo Goldberg (Deceased) Viroflay, France [Elliot, James Ludlow](mailto:jle@poll.mit.edu) 1972 Giovanni Fazio (Deceased) Professor of Physics, MIT & Director of George W. Wallace Jr. Observatory, MIT [Faber, Sandra Moore](http://www.physics.unl.edu/~fulcrum/resources/women/sfaber.htm) 1972 I. J. Danziger Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Santa Cruz [Chaisson, Eric Joseph](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~ejchaisson/) 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 [Burke, John Robert](mailto:burke@stars) 1971 David Layzer Professor of Physics, San Francisco State University [Grindlay, Jonathan Ellis](http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/hco/astro/people/homepages/grindlay.html%20) 1971 Giovanni Fazio Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University [Hoffman, Jeffrey Alan](mailto:jhoffma1@MIT.EDU) 1971 Henry Helmken Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, MIT, NASA Astronaut on Hubble Space Telescope upgrade mission [Jura, Michael Alan](https://aas.org/obituaries/michael-jura-1947-2016) 1971 Alex Dalgarno (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy & Physics, UCLA [Leibacher, John William](mailto:leib@noao.edu) 1971 Charles Whitney Astronomer, National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ [Leibowitz, Elia Menachem](http://www2.tau.ac.il/Person/exact/physics/researcher.asp?id=abchebcdi) 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 [Latham, David Winslow](/people/david-latham) 1970 Owen Gingerich Senior Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Arons, Jonathan](http://astro.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/arons.html) 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 [Veverka, Joseph Frank](http://vivo.cornell.edu/display/individual5702) 1970 Fred Whipple Emeritus Professor, Astronomy Department, Cornell University [Mertz, Lawrence Nelson](http://paw.princeton.edu/memorials/29/52/index.xml) 1969 Robert. Noyes, W. Parkinson (Deceased) Founder Digi-phase, Researcher Lockheed [Peterson, Deane Millar](http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/astro/people.html) 1969 Wolfgang Kalkofen Emeritus Assoc. Professor of Astronomy, State University of NY at Stony Brook [Ball, John Allen](/file_url/1318) 1969 A. Edward Lilley (Deceased) Research Scientist, MIT/Haystack Observatory Blanchard, Paul Adam II 1969 Alex Dalgarno [Morrison, David Douglas](mailto:dmorrison@mail.arc.nasa.gov) 1969 Carl Sagan Director of Astrobiology & Space Research, NASA Ames Research Center [Pasachoff, Jay Myron](mailto:jmp@williams.edu) 1969 Eugene Avrett, Robert Noyes (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, Williams College Tech, Jack Laurence 1969 Leo Goldberg (Deceased) [Newsom, Gerald Higley](mailto:gnewsom@astronomy.ohio-state.edu) 1968 Leo Goldberg Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University Regas, James Leon 1968 Richard Goody Professor, Geosciences, California State University at Chico [Stecker, Floyd William](https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/features/bios/stecker/stecker.html) 1968 Giovanni Fazio NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Doyle, Holly Thomis 1968 David Layzer Inventor Doyle, Robert Ogden 1968 Leo Goldberg CEO, skyBuilders.com [Dupree, Andrea Kundsin](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hea/sws/dupree.html) 1968 Leo Goldberg Senior Astrophysicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Kaufman, Michele 1968 David Layzer Academic Program Specialist, Ohio State University, Retired [Kopp, Roger Alan](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santafenewmexican/obituary-search.aspx?affiliateId=2172&firstname=Roger&lastname=Kopp&stateid=39) 1968 Charles Whitney (Deceased), Los Alamos National Laboratory [Linsky, Jeffrey Lawrence](mailto:JLINSKY@jila.colorado.edu) 1968 Owen Gingerich Research Professor, University of Colorado [Shu, Frank Hsia-San](mailto:fshu@astro.Berkeley.EDU) 1968 C. C. Lin (MIT) (Deceased) Emeritus Professor of Astronomy, University of California, San Diego [Silk, Joseph Ivor](mailto:j.silk1@physics.ox.ac.uk) 1968 David Layzer Professor of Astronomy, Oxford University, Emeritus [Taylor, Joseph Hooten Jr.](http://www.psc.edu/science/Taylor/Taylor-bio.html) 1968 Alan Maxwell Emeritus Professor of Physics, Princeton University; Nobel Laureate in Physics [Zuckerman, Benjamin Michael](mailto:ben@astro.ucla.edu) 1968 A. Edward Lilley Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCLA Rich, John Charles 1967 Leo Goldberg Retired General; retired head of Perkin-Elmer [Walker, Russell Glenn](mailto:russ@vrisv.com) 1967 Carl Sagan General Manager/Astronomer, Vanguard Research [Usher, Peter](http://www2.astro.psu.edu/users/usher/) 1966 Charles Whitney Professor Emeritus, Penn State U. Sacks, William Michael 1966 David Layzer Radiologist (retired), Tucson [Dolan, Joseph Francis](mailto:tejfd@splvin.gsfc.nasa.gov) 1966 Giovanni. Fazio Astrophysicist, NASA [Chapman, Robert D.](mailto:bob.chapman@home.com) 1965 William Liller Software Engineer, Microsoft, Retired [Burke, James Anthony](http://www.phys.uvic.ca/dbr/JAB.html) 1965 David Layzer Assoc. Professor, Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada [Pollack, James B.](http://aas.org/obituaries/james-b-pollack-1938-1994) 1965 Carl Sagan (Deceased) NASA/Ames Research Center [Kalnajs, Agris](http://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/1971/) 1965 David Layzer Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University Gundermann, Ellen 1965 A. Edward Lilley Staff, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Caltech, Retired [Guess, Arnold Willard](http://articles.dailypilot.com/2007-10-03/news/doc47041fa06a873931282476_1_boarding-mcdonnell-douglas-flying) 1964 Donald Menzel (Deceased) engineer at McDonnell Douglas and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [Muhleman, Duane Owen](http://www.gps.caltech.edu/people/dmuhlema/profile) 1964 A. Edward Lilley (Deceased) Professor Emeritus of Planetary Sciences, Caltech [Stothers, Richard Blair](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E6DC113AF93BA1575BC0A9679D8B63) 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 [Strom, Stephen Eric](http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr07/pr0706.html) 1964 William Liller (Retired) Scientific Staff, NOAO, Tucson ([Photographer](http://www.stephenstrom.com/)) Wanner, James Franklin 1964 Morton Roberts Godfredsen, Eugene Alan 1963 David Layzer [Teske, Richard Glenn](https://d7dev.aas.org/obituaries/richard-g-teske-1930-2016?page=26&qt-obituary_sort=0) 1962 Charles Whitney (Deceased) [Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of Michigan](http://um2017.org/faculty-history/faculty/richard-g-teske) [Gingerich, Owen](http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hsdept/bios/gingerich.html) 1962 Charles Whitney (Deceased) Senior Astronomer Emeritus, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory/Professor Emeritus, Astronomy and of the History of Science, Harvard University [Young, Andrew Tipton](mailto:aty@sciences.sdsu.edu) 1962 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin San Diego State University [Epstein, Eugene](mailto:eugene@usc.edu) 1962 A. Edward Lilley Treasurer, American Astronomical Society of the Pacific; Aerospace Corp., Retired [Franklin, Fred A.](mailto:ffranklin@cfa.harvard.edu) 1962 Alan. Cook Physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired [Dunn, Richard Brandner](http://aas.org/node/4074) 1961 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Astronomer, Sacramento Peak Observatory Southworth, Richard Boynton 1961 Fred Whipple Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Hodge, Paul William](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_W._Hodge) 1960 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Deceased [Davis, Robert James](mailto:bdavis@cfa.harvard.edu) 1960 B. Bok, T. Gold Astronomer, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Retired [Varsavsky, Carlos Manuel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Varsavsky) 1959 David Layzer (Deceased) Institute of Radio Astronomy, Argentina [Kameny, Franklin Edward](http://aas.org/obituaries/franklin-e-kameny-1925-2011) 1958 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Deceased); Georgetown; US Army Mapping; gay-rights advocate/marriage equality advocate [Wade, Campbell Marion](http://aas.org/directory/member_details?id=12124) 1958 Bart Bok, David Layzer Deceased Kassim, May Arif Kaftan* 1958 Bart Bok, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Deceased) Research Staff, SUNY, Retired [Dieter Conklin, Nanielou](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=173368278)\* 1958 Thomas Gold (Deceased) Research Scientist, University of California, Berkeley [Howard, William Eager III](https://aas.org/obituaries/william-e-howard-1932-2016) 1958 B. Bok, H. Weaver, T.K. Menon (Deceased) USRA, (formerly with NSF, NRAO) [Wright, Frances Woodworth](http://articles.latimes.com/1989-08-02/news/mn-589_1_celestial-navigation)\* 1958 Fred Whipple (Deceased) Lecturer, Harvard University [Drake, Frank Donald](http://www.ucolick.org/~board/faculty/drake.html) 1958 Bart Bok, Thomas Gold, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Deceased [Zirker, Jack Bernard](http://www.noao.edu/noao/noaonews/mar96/art41.html) 1957 Fred Whipple Emeritus Staff, National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM [Smith, Elske van Panhuys](mailto:smithelske@gmail.com)\* 1956 Bart Bok Professor Emeritus, Virginia Commonwealth University Smith, Henry Joseph 1956 Cecilia Payne-Gaposckin (Deceased) [McCrosky, Richard Eugene](http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/obituaries/2012/06/14/richard-mccrosky-astronomer-directed-observatories/4CXRDWqPeoqzuQcChZ6LsM/story.html) 1956 Fred Whipple (Deceased) Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory [Orrall, Frank Quimby](http://aas.org/node/4283) 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 [Menon, Thuppalay Kochu Govinda](http://www.astro.ubc.ca/people/menon/basic.html) 1956 Bart Bok Professor Emeritus, Astronomy, University of British Columbia [Heeschen, David Sutphin](http://aas.org/node/4958) 1955 Bart Bok (Deceased) Director, NRAO Lilley, Arthur Edward 1955 Bart Bok (Deceased) Professor Emeritus, Harvard University [Smith, Harlan James](http://aas.org/obituaries/harlan-j-smith-1924-1991) 1955 (Deceased) University of Texas [Wyller, Arne August](/arne-wyller-memoriam) 1955 Donald Menzel (Deceased), Director of the Institute for Solar Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy [Whitney, Charles Allen](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=charles-allen-whitney&pid=185637310&) 1955 R. N. Thomas (Deceased) Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University de Jonge, Herman Albert Joost 1954 Bart Bok [Donn, David Bertram](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/bertram-donn-astrophysicist-peace-activist/2013/01/10/f77e103a-5b78-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_story.html) 1953 B. Bok, F. Whipple (Deceased) NASA [Zirin, Harold](http://www.caltech.edu/article/295) 1953 Philip M. Morse (MIT) (Deceased) Professor Astronomy, Caltech [Hoag, Arthur Allen](http://aas.org/obituaries/arthur-hoag-1921-1999) 1953 Bart Bok (Deceased) Director, Lowell Observatory Naqvi, Ali-Mehdi 1952 Donald Menzel [Bappu, Manali Kallat Vainu](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vainu_Bappu) 1952 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Director, Kodaikanal Observatory, Indian Institute for Astrophysics, IAU president Warwick, Constance Sawyer* 1952 Bart Bok Scientist, NIST [van Wijk, Uco](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1967QJRAS...8..386.) 1952 Bart Bok (Deceased) Assistant Professor, Princeton [King, Ivan](https://www.iau.org/administration/membership/individual/3272/) 1952 Harlow Shapley Deceased [Bell, Barbara\*](http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=barbara-bell&pid=186838699&fhid=10107) 1951 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Astronomer, Harvard College Observatory [Warwick, James Walter](http://aas.org/obituaries/james-walter-warwick-1924-2013) 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 [Linnell, Albert Paul](mailto:linnell@astro.washington.edu) 1950 Bart Bok Prof. of Astronomy, U. Washington Wyatt, Stanley Porter 1950 Bart Bok, Harlow Shapley (Deceased) Faculty, U. Illinois [Bauer, Carl August](http://aas.org/directory/member_details?id=15473) 1949 Fred Whipple Penn State [Fleischer, Robert](http://aas.org/node/4134) 1949 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, RPI; NSF Program Director for Solar-Terrestrial Research [Jaffe (Walther), Miriam Elaine](http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091102/OBITS02/911020322)\* 1948 Bart Bok (Deceased), Prof. of Astronomy, Purdue [Ashbrook, Joseph](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980JAVSO...9...43W) 1948 Bart Bok, Cecilia Payne-Gaposckin (Deceased), editor-in-chief, Sky & Telescope Magazine [Thomas, Richard Nelson](http://aas.org/node/4398) 1948 Donald Menzel, Fred Whipple (Deceased) [van Dien, Elsa](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsa_van_Dien)\* 1947 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Bosscha Observatory [Cunningham, Leland E.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Cunningham) 1946 Fred Whipple (Deceased) Aberdeen Proving Ground; U. California, Berkeley [Scott, Roderic McDonald](http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/05/obituaries/roderic-scott-78-urged-hubble-tests.html) 1946 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Chief Scientist, Perkin-Elmer [Heyden, Francis Joseph](http://aas.org/obituaries/francis-j-heyden-sj-1907-1991) 1944 Bart Bok (Deceased) Georgetown University Petrie, William 1944 Donald Menzel Steel, Helen Rawson* 1943 Donald Menzel [Aller, Lawrence Hugh](http://aas.org/obituaries/lawrence-hugh-aller-1913-2003) 1943 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy, UCLA [MacRae, Donald Alexander](http://aas.org/obituaries/donald-alexander-macrae-1916-2006) 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) [Roberts, Walter Orr](https://aas.org/node/4438) 1943 Donald Menzel (Deceased) National Center for Atmospheric Research (Founding Director) [Risley, Alice Marguerite](http://d7beta.aas.org/obituaries/alice-marguerite-risley-1905-1990?page=3)\* 1942 Bart Bok (Deceased) Randolph-Macon College; Acting Director, Maria Mitchell [Lichtenstein, Pearl (Rubinstein)](http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/p/i/t/Marilen-Pitler/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0355.html)\* 1942 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute [Baker, James Gilbert](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005BAAS...37.1545B) 1942 Donald Menzel (Deceased) Harvard College Observatory [Patterson, Florence Shirley](http://aas.org/obituaries/florence-shirley-patterson-jones-1913-2000) 1941 Harlow Shapley (Deceased) Buffalo, Wellesley, Carnegie, Trinity [Woodward, Edith Jones](http://jones-family.0catch.com/album/edith/edith001.htm)\* 1941 Harlow Shapley, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Deceased) Prof of Astronomy, Mt. Holyoke, Hunter, William Paterson College Norman, Daniel 1939 [Hoffleit, Ellen Dorrit](http://aas.org/obituaries/e-dorrit-hoffleit-1907-2007)\* 1938 Bart Bok (Deceased) Director, Maria Mitchell Observatory and research astronomer at Yale [Cuffey, James](http://aas.org/obituaries/james-cuffey-1911-1999) 1938 Harlow Shapley, Bart Bok (Deceased), Indiana University, NM State Univ. [Evans, John Wainwright Jr.](http://aas.org/obituaries/john-wainwright-evans-1909-1999) 1938 Bart Bok (Deceased) Director, Sacramento Peak Observatory [Goldberg, Leo](http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=5859&page=115) 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 [Edmondson, Frank Kelley](http://www.noao.edu/news/edmondson-obit.php) 1937 Bart Bok (Deceased) Indiana University Emeritus Professor [Greenstein, Jesse Leonard](http://aas.org/obituaries/jesse-greenstein-1909-2002) 1937 Bart Bok (Deceased) California Institute of Technology [McCuskey, Sidney Wilcox](http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1980QJRAS..21..214B) 1936 Bart Bok (Deceased) Case Western Reserve University [Seyfert, Carl Kennan](http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1961QJRAS...2..123.) 1936 Harlow Shapley (Deceased) Director, Dyer Observatory, Vanderbilt University Sayer, Arthur Robert 1935 Donald Menzel Northwestern University [Lindsay, Eric Merwin](http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974IrAJ...11R.209.) 1934 Harlow Shapley (Deceased) Director of Armagh Observatory, Ireland, Founder Irish Astronomical Journal [Miller, Freeman Devold](http://aas.org/obituaries/freeman-devold-miller-1909-2000) 1934 Bart Bok (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Michigan Andrews, Loring Beal 1933 Bart Bok [Calder, William Alexande](http://www.atlantaastronomy.org/FocalPoints/WFP-199806.pdf)r 1933 Harlow Shapley (Deceased) Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Agnes Scott College [Anger Rieke, Carol Jane\*](http://aas.org/obituaries/carol-jane-anger-rieke-1908-1999) 1932 John H. Van Vleck (Deceased) Instructor in Mathematics, South Suburban College, So. Holland, Illinois [Millman, Peter MacKenzie](http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/peter-mackenzie-millman) 1932 (Deceased) NRC [Hogg, Helen Battles Sawyer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Sawyer_Hogg)\* 1931 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (Deceased) University of Toronto Robinson, Limmye Vernon 1931 (Deceased) Variable Stars author [Vyssotsky, Emma T.R. Williams\*](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Vyssotsky) 1930 (Deceased) Prof. of Astronomy, U. Virginia [Hogg, Frank Scott](http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1951JRASC..45....1C) 1929 (Deceased) University of Toronto [Payne-Gaposchkin, Cecilia Helena](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0023//0000450.000.html)\* 1925 (Deceased) Phillips Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University ([bio](http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/index.php/history/cecilia-payne-gaposchkin)) *Radcliffe