Gerard P. Kuiper Prize
The Gerard P. Kuiper Prize is a planetology award from the American Astronomical Society . It is awarded annually for an outstanding life's work in the field of planetary research and is named after Gerard P. Kuiper .
Award winners
- 1984 Eugene M. Shoemaker
- 1985 Fred L. Whipple
- 1986 George W. Wetherill
- 1987 Donald M. Hunten
- 1988 Rudolph A. Hanel
- 1989 James B. Pollack
- 1990 Viktor Sergejewitsch Safronow (Viktor S. Safronov)
- 1991 Edward Anders
- 1992 Peter Goldreich
- 1993 James R. Arnold
- 1994 James A. Van Allen
- 1995 Michael J. Belton
- 1996 Barney J. Conrath
- 1997 Irwin I. Shapiro
- 1998 Carl E. Sagan
- 1999 Armand H. Delsemme
- 2000 Conway B. Leovy
- 2001 Bruce Hapke
- 2002 Eberhard Grün
- 2003 Steven J. Ostro
- 2004 Carle M. Pieters
- 2005 William B. Hubbard
- 2006 Dale P. Cruikshank
- 2007 Andrew Ingersoll
- 2008 Michael A'Hearn
- 2009 Tobias Owen
- 2010 Jeff Cuzzi
- 2011 William R. Ward
- 2012 Darrell Strobel
- 2013 Joseph Veverka
- 2014 Peter J. Gierasch
- 2015 Yuk L. Yung
- 2016 Stanton J. Peale
- 2017 Margaret Kivelson
- 2018 Julio Ángel Fernández Alves
- 2019 Maria Zuber
- 2020 Wing-Huen Ip