The American Astronomical Society presents an award named after the partner of Brian Tinsley.
The Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize is awarded every other year by the American Astronomical Society in recognition of an outstanding research contribution to astronomy or astrophysics of an exceptionally creative or innovative character. 
 The prize is named in honor of the cosmologist and astronomer Beatrice Tinsley. 
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941  23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die. 
 With his wife, Beatrice Tinsley, he came to Dallas to work at the newly formed Southwest Center for Advanced Studies, which became the University of Texas at Dallas in 1969. 
