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Awards & Honors

AWARDS & HONORS

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Welcome to the awards page for Goddard's Science and Exploration Directorate! Goddard is proud of its workforce and our goal is to help our civil servant and contract personnel and staff obtain recognition for their outstanding achievements from their professional communities, NASA, and the Goddard Space Flight Center.

This website is designed to help you locate community, NASA and Goddard award opportunities for your colleagues in Code 600 and to provide contact information for internal prize committees. We hope to facilitate getting deserving people nominated for the right prizes and to communicate our awardees to our management and the external community.

Reminder: Nominations are being accepted through April 6, 2007 for the John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science. Nominations may be made by completing the nomination form found on the Office of Human Capital Management's Web site at: http://ohcm.gsfc.nasa.gov/awards/home.htm.

Featured Honors

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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 Nordberg Memorial Award 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.