#  Bok Prize Lecture 

 



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The gift of an anonymous donor to establish "a Prize Fund in honor of Professor Bart J. Bok, and in his name, the income to be used for a prize to be awarded, preferably biennially, on the recommendation of the Astronomy Department, to a recent holder of a Ph.D. degree in the Physical Sciences from Harvard or Radcliffe, the award to be preferably based upon a doctoral thesis, book, or research paper, in the area of Milky Way research by observational methods." The [Bok Prize lecture](https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/prizes-awards/endowed-lectures/bok) is usually presented in the spring of the year following the award year.

**Recipients**

- Jennifer Bergner, 2025
- Catherine Zucker, 2024
- Nick Stone, 2023
- Meredith MacGregor, 2022
- Courtney Dressing
- Andrew Vanderburg
- James Steiner
- Beck Dawson, 2019
- Gurtina Besla, 2017
- Matt McQuinn, 2016
- Meredith Hughes, 2015
- Brant Robertson, 2014
- Jenny Green - 2009
- Steve Furlanetto - 2008
- Warren Brown - 2007
- Scott Ransom - 2006
- Eliot Quatert - 2005
- David Charbonneau - 2004
- Sara Seager - 2003
- Joe Mohr - 2002
- Adam Reiss - 2001
- Brian Schmidt - 2000
- James Hernstein - 1999
- Lincoln Greenhill - 1999
- Alyssa Goodman - 1998
- David Neufeld - 1996
- David Spergel - 1994
- Charles Bailyn - 1992
- Lawrence Molnar - 1990
- Ira Wasserman - 1989
- Sallie Baliunas - 1988
- Thomas Hartquist - 1987
- Daniel Jaffe - 1986
- Guido Garay - 1985
- Lennox Cowie - 1984
- Marc Aaronson - 1983
- Charles Lada - 1982
- Michael Jura - 1981
- John Black - 1980
- William Forman/Christine Jones - 1979
- Sandra Faber - 1978
- Eric Chaisson - 1977
- Jonathan Grindlay - 1976
- Joseph Taylor - 1975
- Benjamin Zuckerman - 1974
- Andrea Dupree - 1973
- Frank Shu - 1972
- Stephen Strom - 1971
- Joseph Silk - 1970
- Patrick Palmer - 1969
- Agris Kalnajs - 1968
- Eugene Avrett - 1967
- George Huguenin - 1965
- Paul Hodge - 1962
- David Layzer - 1960
- A. Edward Lilley - 1958