The Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) to a woman resident of North America, who is within five years of receipt of a Ph.D., for distinguished contributions to astronomy or for similar contributions in related sciences which have immediate application to astronomy. The awardee shall be invited to give a talk at an AAS meeting and is given a $5,000 honorarium.
From 1973 - 2004 it was awarded by the American Association of University Women on advice from the AAS. The AAS resumed distribution of the award in 2005. The award is named in honor of American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, and is the only award for a woman astronomer.
Annie Jump Cannon awardees are:
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| 1934 | Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin |
| 1937 | Charlotte Moore Sitterly |
| 1940 | Julie Vinter Hansen |
| 1943 | Antonia Maury |
| 1946 | Emma Vyssotsky |
| 1949 | Helen Sawyer Hogg |
| 1952 | Ida Barney |
| 1955 | Helen Dodson Prince |
| 1958 | Margaret Mayall |
| 1962 | Margaret Harwood |
| 1965 | Erika Böhm-Vitense |
| 1968 | Henrietta Swope |
| Awarded by the AAUW with advice of AAS | |
| 1974 | Beatrice Tinsley |
| 1976 | Catharine Garmany |
| 1978 | Paula Szkody |
| 1980 | Lee Anne Willson |
| 1982 | Judith Young |
| 1984 | Harriet Dinerstein |
| 1986 | Rosemary Wyse |
| 1988 | Karen Jean Meech |
| 1989 | Jacqueline Hewitt |
| 1990 | Claudia Megan Urry |
| 1991 | Jane Luu |
| 1992 | Elizabeth Lada |
| 1993 | Stefi Baum |
| 1994 | Andrea Ghez |
| 1995 | Suzanne Madden |
| 1996 | Joan Najita |
| 1997 | Chung-Pei Ma |
| 1998 | Victoria M. Kaspi |
| 1999 | Sally Oey |
| 2000 | Alycia J. Weinberger |
| 2001 | Amy Barger |
| 2002 | Vassiliki Kalogera |
| 2003 | Annette Ferguson |
| 2004 | Sara Ellison |
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| 2006 | Lisa J. Kewley |
| 2007 | Ann Hornschemeier |
| 2008 | Jenny Greene |
| 2009 | Alicia M. Soderberg |
| 2010 | Anna Frebel |
| 2011 | Rachel Mandelbaum |
| 2012 | Heather Knutson |
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