AG News

Ludwig Biermann Award 2020

Paola Pinilla is being honoured with the 2020 Ludwig Biermann Award for her contributions to the understanding of the evolution of small solid particles in gas disks around young stars.

The most prestigious prize in Germany in the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Karl Schwarzschild Medal, is awarded to Friedrich-Karl Thielemann in honour of his research on the boundary of nuclear physics and astrophysics.

Doctoral Thesis Prize 2020

Anna-Christina Eilers is awarded the 2020 Doctoral Thesis Prize for her studies on quasars in the early Universe and the dynamics of the Milky Way.

Astrophysical Software Award 2020

Til Birnstiel received the 2020 Astrophysical Software Award for the software he developed for modelling the temporal and spatial evolution of dust in protoplanetary disks.

Awards 2020

The award winners 2020 will be presented at the virtual conference of the AG in September.

Reimar Lüst (1923 - 2020)

The German Astronomical Society mourns the loss of its honorary member Reimar Lüst.

AG 2020 - virtual

Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society 2020 from September 21 to 25, 2020

Bruno H. Bürgel Award 2019

The 2019 Bruno H. Bürgel prize for excellent popular representations in the media honors J.V.Feitzinger and D.B.Herrmann.

Doctoral Thesis Award 2019

Tim Lichtenberg receives the award for his work on Planet formation and Oliver Friedrich for his studies using the gravitational lensing effect.

Instrument Development Award 2019

For the instrumentation of the Gaia mission the German Astronomical Society awards the prize to Lennart Lindegren, Erik Høg, and Michael Perryman.