External Awards and Prizes

Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (Lifetime Achievement) Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy (Early Career, Observational) Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy (Early Career, Observational or Theoretical) Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize (Especially Innovative Research) Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation (Instrumentation) Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (Mid-career) George Van Biesbroeck Prize (Extraordinary Service) Education Prize (Contribution to Education) Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy (Distinguished Contribution) Astronomy Achievement Student Awards (Exemplary Research) Brouwer Award (Dynamical Astronomy) Rossi Prize (High Energy) (October 15) Schramm Prize (Writing about High Energy) (June 15) Doggett Prize (Historical Astronomy) (announced annually) Hale Prize (Solar Astronomy) Harvey Prize (Solar Astronomy, under age of 36) (fall)

AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Awards:

http://www.aas.org/~dps/prizes_contact.html

Kuiper Prize (Lifetime Achievement) Urey Prize (Young Scientist) Masursky (Service) Sagan (Public Communication) (April 20)

American Physical Society (APS) Physics prizes:

http://www.aps.org/praw/index.cfm

Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Prizes:

http://www.astrosociety.org/membership/awards/awards.html

Richard H. Emmons Award (College astronomy teaching) 1 Jan 2013 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal (Lifetime contributions to astronomy) Robert J. Trumpler Award (PhD thesis) 1 Jan 2013 Klumpke-Roberts Award (Contributions to the public understanding of astronomy) 1 Jan 2013 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award (Recent significant observational results made possible by innovative advances in astronomical instrumentation, software, or observational infrastructure.) 1 Jan 2013 Thomas J. Brennan Award (High school astronomy teaching) 1 Jan 2013 Amateur Achievement 1 Jan 2013 Las Cumbres Amateur Outreach 1 Jan 2013

X-ray Spectral Fitting Package (XSPEC)

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