# Recipients of the Brouwer Prize
**Source**: https://astronomy.yale.edu/recipients-brouwer-prize
**Parent**: https://astronomy.yale.edu/undergraduate-program
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| 2025 | **Cheng-Han Hsieh** (PhD 2024): *Multi-Scale Star Formation: from Filaments to Protostellar Disk Substructures* |
| 2024 | **Uddipan Bannik** (PhD 2023): *Pushing the Frontiers of Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Collisionless and Weakly Collisional Self-Gravitating Systems* **Lily Zhao**(PhD 2021): *The Path to Extreme Precision Radial Velocity With EXPRES* |
| 2023 | **Joel Ong** (PhD 2022): *Stellar Surfaces in the Frequency Domain* **Lamiya Mowla** (PhD 2020): *The Structural Evolution of Massive Galaxies* |
| 2022 | **Darryl Seligman** (PhD 2020): *From The Stars: An Assessment of the Scientific Opportunities Provided by Interstellar Objects* |
| 2021 | **Sarah Millholland** (PhD 2020): *Data-Driven Dynamics of Planetary Systems* |
| 2020 | **Angelo Ricarte:** *The Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes: from the Seeding Epoch to the Present Day* **Johannes Ulf Lange:** *Probing the Galaxy-Halo Connection and Cosmology in the Non-Linear Regime* |
| 2019 | **Joel Leja** (PhD 2016) *Tracing Galaxies Through Cosmic Time* **John Brewer** (PhD 2016) *Messages from the Reversing Layer: Clues to Planet Formation in Stellar Abundances* |
| 2018 | **Fangzhou (Arthur) Jiang:** *Characterizing the Substructure of Dark Matter Halos* |
| 2017 | **Joel Tanner:** *[Simulating Convection in Stellar Envelopes](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014PhDT.......269T)* **Ana Bonaca:** *Chasing Tidal Tails Around the Milky Way* |
| 2016 | **Rachel Bezanson:** *[Ten Billion Years of Growth: Massive Galaxy Evolution from Structures and Dynamics](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2013PhDT.......434B)* |
| 2015 | **Katherine E. Whitaker**: *[A Cosmic Metamorphosis: The Quenching of Star-formation in Massive Galaxies Over the Last Eleven Billion Years](http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012PhDT.......159T)* |
| 2014 | Not Awarded |
| 2013 | **Anson D’Aloisio**: *[Cosmological Structures and Gravitational Lensing](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2011PhDT.......145D)* |
| 2012 | **Charles Baldner**: [*The Magnetic Fields of the Solar Interior*](http://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/seismo/SpaceInn/resources/baldner_thesis.pdf) |
| 2011 | **Gabe Brammer**: [*Massive Galaxies Near and Far: The Evolution of an Unbiased Population Over the Last Ten Billion Years*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2010PhDT.......229B) **Peter Adshead**: [*Cosmological Perturbation Theory and the Early Universe*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2010PhDT........36A) |
| 2010 | **Eric Murphy**: *Star Formation, Dust Heating, and Cosmic Ray Electron Cooling: A Far-Infrared and Radio Study of Nearby Galaxies* |
| 2009 | **Bethany Cobb**: [*Long-term Observations of Gamma-ray Bursts: The Complex Connection Between Gamma-ray Bursts and Supernovae*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2008PhDT........26C) |
| 2008 | **Hugh Crowl**: [*Galaxy Transformation in the Virgo Cluster: Gas Stripping and Stellar Population Evolution*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2006PhDT........21C) **Ryan Quadri**: [*Clustering of Massive Galaxies in the Early Universe*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2007PhDT.........4Q) |
| 2007 | Not Awarded |
| 2006 | **Katherine Rhode**: [*A Wide-field Survey of the Globular Cluster Systems of Elliptical and Spiral Galaxies*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2003PhDT.........1R) |
| 2005 | Not Awarded |
| 2004 | **Anna K Vivas**: *[A Survey of RR Lyrae Stars in the Halo of the Milky Way](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2002PhDT........10V)* |
| 2003 | **Thomas Maccarone**: [*Constraints on Black Hole Emission Mechanisms*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2001PhDT.......146M) |
| 2002 | Not Awarded |
| 2001 | **Volker Bromm**: [*Star Formation in the Early Universe*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/2000PhDT.......241B) |
| 2000 | **Dana Dinescu**: [*Globular Cluster Orbits: Implications for the Formation of the Galaxy*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1998PhDT........14D) |
| 1999 | **Alison Sills**: [*Probing the Dynamics and Populations of Globular Clusters*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1998PhDT........12S) **Sydney Barnes**: [*The Rotational Evolution of Young, Solar-type Stars*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1997PhDT.........7B) |
| 1998 | **Sukyoung Yi**: *The Origin of the UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies* |
| 1997 | **Rene Mendez**: *[A Semi-Empirical Model for the Distribution of Star Counts, and Kinematical Properties of Stars in the Milky Way](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1995PhDT........14M)* **Jerry Orosz**: *Optical Observations of Black Hole X-ray Novae* |
| 1996 | Not Awarded |
| 1995 | **Brian Charles Chaboyer**: [*Effects of Microscopic Diffusion and Rotational Mixing on Stellar Models*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1993PhDT.........7C) |
| 1994 | **Thomas Joseph Lydon**: [*The Application of Numerical Simulations of Convection to Stellar Interiors*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1993PhDT........52L) |
| 1993 | **Ata Sarajedini**: [*Globular Cluster Photometry Near the Turnoff*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1992PhDT........22S) |
| 1992 | Not Awarded |
| 1991 | **Constantine P. Deliyannis**: [*Primordial Lithium, Stellar Evolution and Cosmology*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1990PhDT.........3D) |
| 1990 | **Young-Wook Lee**: [*The Evolution of Horizontal Branch Stars and the Calibration of Globular Cluster Ages*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1989PhDT.........7L) |
| 1989 | **Marc H Pinsonneault**: *[Evolutionary Models of the Rotating Sun and Implications for Other Low Mass](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1988PhDT........14P)* |
| 1988 | **Taft Armandroff**: [*An Observational Study of Disk-Population Globular Clusters*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1988PhDT.........6A) |
| 1987 | **Michael West**: [*Systematic Properties of Clusters of Galaxies in Different Cosmological Scenarios*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1987PhDT.........4W) |
| 1986 | Not Awarded |
| 1985 | **Michael Gregg**: *Differential Spectral Synthesis of SO Galaxies* |
| 1984 | **David B Guenther**: *Resonant Three-wave Interactions and an Application to the 160 Minute Solar Oscillation* |
| 1983 | **Jens Verner Villumsen**: [*Simulations of Galaxy Mergers*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1982PhDT.........2V) |
| 1982 | **Linda L. Stryker**: [*Stellar Populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1981PhDT.......122S) |
| 1981 | Not Awarded |
| 1980 | **John Giuliani**: [*On the Hydrodynamic Stability and Wave Interactions of Ionization-shock Fronts*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1980PhDT.........2G) **Peter Stetson**: *[The Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy in Draco](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1979PhDT........16S)* **Bruce Twarog**: [*An Observational Study of the Chemical Evolution of the Solar Neighborhood*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1980PhDT.........2T) |
| 1979 | Not Awarded |
| 1978 | **James Rose**: [*A Dynamical Study of Compact Groups of Galaxies*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1977PhDT........13R) |
| 1977 | Not Awarded |
| 1976 | Not Awarded |
| 1975 | **Robert Zinn**: [*Advanced Evolution of Globular Cluster Stars*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1974PhDT.........1Z) |
| 1974 | Not Awarded |
| 1973 | **Kenneth A Janes**: *An Investigation of Stellar Populations Among G and K Giant Stars* |
| 1972 | Not Awarded |
| 1971 | Not Awarded |
| 1970 | **Kaare Aksnes**: [*A Second-order Solution for the Motion of an Artificial Earth Satellite Based on an Intermediate Orbit*](http://adsabs.harvard.edu//abs/1969PhDT.........4A) |