Dr. Mario Acuña elected member of National Academy of Sciences
Dr. Acuña, Code 695, a renowned authority on Space Magnetometry and Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, Instrument Scientist and Project
Scientist for many NASA missions, has been elected as a member of the National Acade
my of Sciences (NAS). NAS members are chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.
Dr. Ann Hornschemeier (Cardiff), Code 662, will be awarded the 2007 Annie Jump Cannon Award for outstanding astronomical research and promise for
future research by a postdoctoral woman researcher. She is being honored for her X-r
ay investigations of distant galaxies.
Dr. Harvey Moseley, Code 665, has been selected to receive the 2007 Joseph Weber Award. The Award, named for the University of Maryland physicist
who built the first detectors for gravitational waves, recognizes an individual sc
ientist for the design, invention or significant improvement of instrumentation leading to advances in astronomy. The Weber Award is conferred on Dr.
Moseley "for his extraordinary contributions over two decades to the development
of astronomical detectors covering a huge wavelength range-from X-rays to the submillimeter".
The AAS has selected Dr. Stephen Maran, retired from Code 600, to receive the 2007 George Van Biesbroeck Prize. It is normally awarded every two
years to honor an individual for long-term extraordinary or unselfish service to astr
onomy. Steve is being recognized for his long service as the AAS' Press Officer.
2007 John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science:
- Drake Deming/693
2007 Excellence in Information Science and Technology (IS&T) Award:
- Patrick Coronado/606.3
2007 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science:
- Robert Adler/613
2007 Moe I. Schneebaum Memorial Award for Engineering:
- Xiaoli Sun/694
2006
Dr. John Mather and Dr. George Smoot win 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics!
Code 665's John Mather has been awarded the Nobel Prize, together with George Smoot of U. Cal. Berkeley for mapping the anisotropy of the cosmic
microwave background radiation. The work cited is based on measurements with Goddard'
s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite, launched in 1989. Congratulations John!!
2006 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science goes to Dr. Charles R McClain, Code 614.2
Dr. Charles R McClain is the winner of the 2006 William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science. Chuck was recognized for his long standing
contributions to Ocean Color research, distinguished service to SeaWIFS, MODIS and VIIRS
, and his efforts contributing to a NASA award winning data processing and distribution system for ocean related satellite products.
John Mather and COBE Science Team win 2006 Gruber Cosmology Prize
The Gruber Prize gold medal and $250,000 were presented to Dr. Mather, Code 665, at the IAU meeting in Prague. The purpose of this Cosmology Prize is
to acknowledge and encourage further exploration in a field that shapes the way
we perceive and comprehend our universe.
2006 Bruno Rossi Prize Winner - Tod Strohmayer, Code 662 (with colleagues Deepto Chakrabarty, and Rudy Wijnands)
Citation: The 2006 Rossi Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society
is awarded to Tod Strohmayer,
Deepto Chakrabarty, and Rudy Wijnands for their pioneering research
which revealed millisecond spin periods and established the powerful
diagnostic tool of kilohertz intensity oscillations in accreting
neutron star binary systems.
