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Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy

award for early-career contributions to observational or theoretical astronomy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ1601825 ↗
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The Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy is awarded annually by the American Astronomical Society to a young astronomer (aged less than 36,

or within 8 years of the award of their PhD) for a significant contribution to observational or theoretical astronomy. The prize was established by Helen Blakemoor Warner.

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This entry incorporates text from “Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.