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Observational Cosmology Laboratory (665) Awards Won

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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.
SPIE

Exceptional Public Achievement Medal

Jun, 2013
Recipient: Dale J Fixsen (665)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Achievement Medal

Jun, 2013
Recipients: Mark Clampin (667), Edward J Kim (617), Michael Ressler

GSFC Honor Award - Science

2012
Recipients: Timothy R Kallman (662), E Dwek (665), Jane R Rigby (665)
Eli Dwek for Scientific Achievement
Citation: For developing new, detailed, and observationally confirmed models of the formation, evolution, and destruction of cosmic dust grains, from supernovae to shock waves and star-forming regions.

Jane Rigby for Scientific Achievement
Citation: For using gravitational lensing to map a distant galaxy in unprecedented detail.

Tim Kallman for Scientific Achievement
Citation: For his outstanding performance as GEMS Project Scientist

Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Dec, 2012
Recipients: E Dwek (665), Neil Gehrels (661)
Dr. Eli Dwek and Dr. Neil Gehrels have been named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The election of an AAAS fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Gruber Cosmology Prize

Jun, 2012
Recipients: Charles L Bennett (665), Alan J Kogut (665), Edward J Wollack (665), Robert J Hill (665), Michael R Greason (660.2), Janet L Weiland (665), Nils P Odegard (665)
Gruber Cosmology Prize
Susan Neff

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Achievement Medal

Jun, 2012
Recipient: Susan Gale Neff (665)
For dedication to the GALEX mission, including leadership within the team and for ensuring that the capabilities of the mission were extended to the astronomical community.
Bernie Rauscher

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Achievement Medal

Jun, 2012
Recipient: Bernard J Rauscher (665)
For his exceptional work in delivering the NIRSpec detector system for JWST.

Robert H. Goddard Exceptional Achievement Award in Engineering

2011
Recipient: JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) Instrument Detector System Team
In 2011, the JWST Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSpec) Instrument Detector System Team received the Exceptional Achievement Award in Engineering “for outstanding accomplishment in the development and delivery of the JWST NIRSpec flight detector system.” Members of the team from ASD are Bernie Rauscher, Bob Hill Jr., Meng Chiao, Greg Delo, Don Lindler and Ori Fox.

ASD Peer Award

07.13.2011
Recipients: Judito B Concepcion (660.2), Megan E Eckart (662), Stephan F Fantasia (660.2), George W Gliba (660.1), Asami Hayato (660), Joanne Elizabeth Hill (662), Frederick G Huegel (560), Raksha Kapil (663), Steven John Kenyon (543), Sheila A Rahming (665), Karwan Rostem (665), John E Sadleir (553), Kenneth M Simms (660.3), Evan A Smith (660.1), Tomomi Watanabe (660)

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

Jun, 2011
Recipients: JWST Micro-shutter System Team, Samuel Harvey Moseley (660), Robert F Silverberg (665), Richard G Arendt (665), Wayne B Landsman (667), Elmer H Sharp (665), David A Rapchun (665), Ernest D Buchanan (665), Alexander S Kutyrev (665), Nicholas R Collins (667), John K Feggans (670), Michael van Steenberg, Stephen Kay, Veronica Ponce-Blevins, Vasant Patel
For outstanding accomplishment in development and delivery of the JWST flight micro-shutter system

GSFC Honor Award - Science

Sept, 2010
Recipients: Bryan Neal Duncan (614), Alexander A Moiseev (661), Matthew A Greenhouse (665), Randy A Kimble (667), John W Keller (691), NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) SCU5&6 Team, MERRA Team, Goddard VLBI Group Team

ASD Peer Award

06.18.2010
Recipients: Joseph S Adams (662), Meng P Chiao (660), Travis James Coffroad (662), Brenda Lee Hanrahan (603), Jessie Hughes (603), Akilah S Morgan (661), Don J Lindler (667), Caroline Z Maswanganye (660), Lawrence George Olsen (660.3), Aki Roberge (667), Charles Neal Sofge (660), Jean Hebb Swank (662), John C Vernaleo (661), Eric L Winter (661), Bruce E Woodgate (660)
photo of John Mather

Nobel Prize in Physics

Oct, 2006
Recipient: John C Mather (660)
John Mather was 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.
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