Astroparticle Physics Laboratory

Awards

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Regina M Caputo (she/her) (661), Elmer H Sharp (665)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

2023-01-01

Recipients:Scott Barthelmy (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Quality and Process Improvement

2023-01-01

Recipients:Swift Mission Operations Center (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams

2023-01-01

Recipients:General Coordinates Network Circular Team (661), PRIME Wide Field Imager Team (665)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

2023-01-01

Recipients:Scott Friedman (660), James Fuentes (660), Tyler Parsotan (661)

Robert H. Goddard Award - Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Accessibility

2023-01-01

Recipients:Tiffany Lewis (661), Gregory Mosby (665)

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2022-01-01

Recipients:Time-domain Astrophysics Coordination Hub Team (661)

TACH Team members include: Scott Barthelmy, Chris Bolt, Eric Burns, Dakota Dutko, Joe Foster, Meredith Gibb, Victor Gonzalez-Leon, Tess Jeffe, Israel Martinez, Teresa Sheets, Paul Shoemaker, Leo Singer, Alan Smale, Donggeun Tak, and Judith Racusin.

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2022-01-01

Recipients:Sibasish Laha (661), Jane R Rigby (665), Michael W McElwain (667)

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

2022-07-13

Recipients:Sibasish Laha (661), Maurice A Leutenegger (662), Tonia Moira Venters (661)

HEAD Mid-Career Prize

2022-01-01

Recipients:Brad Cenko (661)

The 2022 HEAD Mid-Career Prize is awarded to Dr. Brad Cenko "for outstanding leadership, discovery and characterization of high-energy transient phenomena from tidal disruption events, counterparts to gravitational wave mergers, and gamma ray bursts."

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Public Achievement Medal

2020-09-29

Recipients:Katja Pottschmidt (661)

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Public Achievement Medal

2020-09-29

Recipients:Eric Burns (661)

AAS Fellows

2020-02-25

Recipients:Alice K Harding (663), Sangeeta Malhotra (661), Maxim L Markevitch (662), John C Mather (660), William D Pence (662), Tod E Strohmayer (662), Jean Hebb Swank (662), Kimberly A Weaver (662)

The Fellows program of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, was established in 2019 to honor members for their contributions toward the AAS mission of enhancing and sharing humanity's scientific understanding of the universe. The following members of ASD were honored among the first group of AAS Fellows, announced Feb. 25:

Edward Cheng
Alice Harding
Sangeeta Malhotra
Maxim Markevitch
John Mather
William Pence
Tod Strohmayer
Jean Hebb Swank
Kimberly Weaver

Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship

2019-11-20

Recipients:Regina M Caputo (she/her) (661)

Congratulations to Regina Caputo on her selection as a Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellow.

GSFC Honor Award - Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit

2018-01-01

Recipients:Scott D Barthelmy (661)

GSFC Honor Award - Outreach

2018-01-01

Recipients:Fermi@10 Team (Elizabeth Ferrara) (661)

GSFC Honor Award - New Opportunities Captured Team

2018-01-01

Recipients:BurstCube Team (Jeremy Perkins) (661)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

2018-01-01

Recipients:Scott D Barthelmy (661)

NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

2018-01-01

Recipients:Neil Gehrels (661)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2017-01-01

Recipients:Sylvain Germain Guiriec (661), John W Mitchell (661)

Dan David Prize

2017-01-01

Recipients:Neil Gehrels (661)

Neil Gehrels was posthumously awarded the $1 million 2017 Dan David Prize for "being the principal investigator of NASA's Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission, which has transformed our view of the transient and variable sky in gamma-rays and in X-rays."

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

2016-09-15

Recipients:Super TIGER Recovery Team (Thomas Hams) (661)

Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics

2016-05-03

Recipients:Neil Gehrels (661), Jordan B Camp (663), Leo Pound Singer (661)

Please congratulate our scientists Neil Gehrels, Jordan Camp and Leo Singer on their receipt of a Special Award made to the LIGO team by Yuri Milner. The award is a special addition to the Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics awarded every fall. The LIGO team are receiving this award for the first detection of ripples in space time, known as gravitational waves, from the collision of two gigantic black holes. Further details are contained in the New York Times article.
NYT article

GSFC Honor Award - Science

2015-01-01

Recipients:Brad Cenko (661), Francesco Tombesi (662), Hiroya Yamaguchi (662)