Sciences and Exploration Directorate (600) Recent Awards & Honors

John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

2013
Recipient: James A Klimchuk (671)
For your many fundamental contributions to our understanding of the heating of the Sun’s corona. The award will be presented at the The John C. Lindsay Memorial Award Colloquium to be held on Friday, September 27, 2013

SPIE George W. Goddard Award

2013
Recipient: Samuel Harvey Moseley (660)
This is given annually by the SPIE in recognition of exceptional achievement in optical or photonic instrumentation for aerospace, atmospheric science, or astronomy. Harvey Moseley received this award in recognition of his extraordinary inventions of superconducting imaging arrays for astronomy, ranging from submillimeter bolometers to energy sensitive X-ray microcalorimeters, and even dark matter detectors, as well as microshutter arrays for the James Webb Space Telescope near IR spectrometer.
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NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

Jun, 2013
Recipients: CSBF Antarctic Scientific Balloon Team/Danny Ball/CSBF (661), LRO-LR Lunar Laser Communication Test Team/Xiaoli Sun (694), NASA 2012 Transit of Venus Outreach Team/Martha Wawro (671), RHESSI Science and Data Analysis Team/Gordon Holman (671), SuperTIGER Balloon Team/John Mitchell (661)

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal

Jun, 2013
Recipient: P3B Operation and Maintenance Team/Brian Yates (830 610.W)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Service Medal

Jun, 2013
Recipient: Frederick S Patt (616)

Exceptional Public Achievement Medal

Jun, 2013
Honoree: Dale J Fixsen (665)
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