The Paolo Farinella Prize is named after Paolo Farinella. The prize recognizes significant contributions in the fields of planetary sciences, space geodesy, fundamental physics, science popularization, security in space, weapons control, and disarmament. Recipients must be under the age of 47 (the age at which Farinella died) to qualify for the prize.

Prize winners

YearName2011William Bottke2012John Chambers2013Patrick Michel2014David Vokrouhlický2015Nicolas Biver2016Kleomenis Tsiganis2017Simone Marchi2018Francis Nimmo2019Scott Sheppard and Chad Trujillo2020Jonathan Fortney and Heather Knutson2021Diana Valencia and Lena Noack2022Castillo-Rogez and Martin Jutzi2023 Federica Spoto and Diego Turrini2024Ravit Helled

See also

List of astronomy awards

References