Astroparticle Physics Laboratory

Awards

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NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

January 1, 2023

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Scott Barthelmy

Robert H. Goddard Award – Quality and Process Improvement

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Swift Mission Operations Center

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science Teams

January 1, 2023

Recipients: General Coordinates Network Circular Team PRIME Wide Field Imager Team

Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

January 1, 2023

Recipients: Scott Friedman James Fuentes

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

January 1, 2023

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NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

January 1, 2022

Recipients: Time-domain Astrophysics Coordination Hub Team

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

January 1, 2022

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Robert H. Goddard Award – Science

July 13, 2022

HEAD Mid-Career Prize

January 1, 2022

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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

September 29, 2020

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NASA Honor Award - Early Career Public Achievement Medal

September 29, 2020

Recipients: Eric Burns

AAS Fellows

February 25, 2020

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

November 20, 2019

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

GSFC Honor Award - Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit

January 1, 2018

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GSFC Honor Award - Outreach

January 1, 2018

Recipients: Fermi@10 Team (Elizabeth Ferrara)

GSFC Honor Award - New Opportunities Captured Team

January 1, 2018

Recipients: BurstCube Team (Jeremy Perkins)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

January 1, 2018

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NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

January 1, 2018

Recipients: Neil Gehrels

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

January 1, 2017

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Dan David Prize

January 1, 2017

Recipients: Neil Gehrels

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

September 15, 2016

Recipients: Super TIGER Recovery Team (Thomas Hams)

Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics

May 3, 2016

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

January 1, 2015

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