The Beals Award

 

The Carlyle S. Beals Award was established by CASCA in 1981 in recognition of the groundbreaking researches of the late C.S. Beals. The Beals Prize was originally awarded to provide a grant for travel to a General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (every three years). In 1988, however, it was first awarded in its present form: to a Canadian astronomer or an astronomer working in Canada, in recognition of outstanding achievement in research (either as a specific achievement or as a lifetime of research). The recipient shall be invited to address the Society at its Annual Meeting.

An award is now considered every second year, in even-numbered years. The nomination package must consist of a joint letter of nomination by at least two members of CASCA, the CV of the candidate, and three external letters of support (e.g., from international experts in the nominee's field). No letter should exceed three pages in length. No other material should be submitted. Please submit nomination packages entirely in electronic form to the Chair of the Awards committee. The deadline for submissions for the 2010 award is 15 January 2010.

 

Recipients prior to 1988 were:

1982	John B. Hutchings
1985	Anne B. Underhill

Recipients since 1988 have been:

1988	Sidney van den Bergh	"Supernovae and their Remnants"
1990	Scott Tremaine	"Is the Solar System Stable?"
1992	Rene Racine	"Support for Astronomy"
1994	Peter G. Martin	"Interstellar Pinball: A Sometimes Shocking Story of Excited Molecular Hydrogen"
1996	J. Richard Bond	"Cosmic Background Anisotropies and Large Scale Structure: Past, Present and Future"
1998	Gordon A. H. Walker	"Challenges for the New Millennium: Some Persistent Astronomical Mysteries"
2000	Gilles Fontaine	"The Potential of White Dwarf Cosmochronology"
2002	John Landstreet	"Magnetic Fields in Stars"
2004	Ernest R. Seaquist	“The Galaxy M82 - a Rosetta Stone for the Starburst Phenomenon”
2006	Georges Michaud	"Atomic Diffusion in Pop II Stars, Globular Clusters and WMAP"
2008	Ray Carlberg	"Preliminary SNLS Third Year Results"

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