The Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award is awarded by the American Astronomical Society for astronomy writing for an academic audience, specifically textbooks at either the upper-division undergraduate level or the graduate level. The award is one of three AAS medal programs established by Dr. Carlson R. Chambliss, Professor Emeritus of astronomy of Kutztown University, Pennsylvania.
Books suitable for this award must be currently available in North America. Criteria include depth and focus, organization, clarity and effective study aids and exercises. A single gold medal is given, and if the winning book has multiple authors, the $1,000 monetary award is divided, and multiple certificates issued.
Year Recipient Book Publisher2006 Barbara Ryden Introduction to Cosmology (2003) Addison-Wesley2007 Imke de Pater, Jack Lissauer Planetary Sciences (2001) Cambridge University Press2008 Linda S. Sparke, John Gallagher III Galaxies in the Universe: An Introduction (2007) Cambridge University Press2009 Dan Maoz Astrophysics in a Nutshell (2007) Princeton University Press2010 Hale Bradt Astrophysics Processes: The Physics of Astronomical Phenomena (2008) Cambridge University Press2011 Caleb A. Scharf Extrasolar Planets and Astrobiology (2009) University Science Books (now MIT Press)2012 Abraham Loeb How Did the First Stars and Galaxies Form? (2010) Princeton University Press2013 George Rieke Measuring the Universe: A Multiwavelength Perspective (2012) Cambridge University Press2018 Kevin Heng Exoplanetary Atmospheres: Theoretical Concepts and Foundations (2017) Princeton University Press 2019 David Branch, J. Craig Wheeler Supernova Explosions (2017) Springer Nature 2020 Thomas Burbine Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies (2017) Cambridge University Press2022 Daniel Baumann Cosmology (2022) Cambridge University Press2023 Henny J.G.L.M. Lamers, Emily Levesque Understanding Stellar Evolution (2017) IOP Publishing2024 Viviana Acquaviva Machine Learning for Physics and Astronomy (2023) Princeton University Press2025 Dragan Huterer A Course in Cosmology: From Theory to Practice (2023) Cambridge University Press2026 Marc Pinsonneault, Barbara Ryden Stellar Structure and Evolution (2023) Cambridge University Press
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See also List of astronomy awards