CITA Professor Norman Murray has been named a 2025 Fellow of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) for his “seminal contributions to our theories of chaos in the solar system, including planet formation and evolution; and for pioneering new methods for studying the physics of black hole accretion and the effects of stars and supermassive black holes on galaxy formation.”
The AAS, established in 1899, is a major international organization of professional astronomers, astronomy educators, and amateur astronomers. This year AAS is honoring 24 of its members for extraordinary achievement and service by naming them AAS Fellows — an honor bestowed on less than 0.5 per cent of AAS’s membership each year. They are being recognized for original research and publications, innovative contributions to astronomical techniques or instrumentation, significant contributions to education and public outreach, and noteworthy service to astronomy and to society at large.
Murray is a long-standing faculty member at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. He adds the 2025 AAS Fellow distinction to a long list of honours including the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics received in 2022, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2021 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2020.
In addition to his numerous distinctions and fundamental contributions to the field of Astrophysics, Murray has worked with and mentored more than 50 postdoctoral fellows and a great number of graduate students. Many of his former students are now among the leaders of the astrophysics field.