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Astrophysics Science Division (660) Awards Won

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John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

2018
Recipient: Jane R Rigby (665)
Jane Rigby is the winner of the 2018 John C. Lindsay Award for Space Science. Jane is being recognized for her leadership on the Magellan Evolution of Galaxies Spectroscopic and Ultraviolet Reference Atlas (Megasaura). Jane has led the Megasaura project since its inception in 2010.

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Medal

2018
Recipients: Goddard Astrophysics Communications Team/Barbara Mattson Show all Recipients , CIRS, Cassini Composite Infrared Spectrometer Team/F. Michael Flaser, Community Coordinated Modeling Center/Leila Markus, Electric Field Wire Boom Deployer Team/Robert Pfaff, NASA’s Black Marble Science Team/Miguel Roman, SED Resources Management Team/Lisa Kelleher

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Service Medal

2018
Recipients: Scott D Barthelmy (661) Show all Recipients , George J Huffman (612)

NASA Honor Award - Outstanding Leadership Medal

2018
Recipients: Keith C Gendreau (662) Show all Recipients , Dennis F Chesters (613)

NASA Honor Award - Silver Achievement Medal

2018
Recipient: Eleonora Troja (660)

NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

2018
Recipients: Neil Gehrels Show all Recipients , Dennis C Reuter (693)

AAS President’s Recognition Award

03.28.2018
Recipient: Harley A Thronson (660)
Harley Thronson received the AAS President’s Recognition Award for a decade of chairing the Goddard Symposium planning team.
American Astronautical Society

AAS Space Technology Award

03.28.2018
Recipients: (James) Ira Thorpe (663), Jacob P Slutsky (663)
Congratulations to Goddard scientists Ira Thorpe and Jake Slutsky, both in 663, who are part of the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) team, which was recently awarded the 2017 Space Technology Award from the American Astronautical Society.
American Astronautical Society

Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics

2018
Recipient: WMAP Science Team
Charles Bennett, Gary Hinshaw, Norman Jarosik, Lyman Page Jr., David Spergel and the WMAP Science Team were awarded the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The citation reads: "For detailed maps of the early universe that greatly improved our knowledge of the evolution of the cosmos and the fluctuations that seeded the formation of galaxies." The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was founded in 2012 by Yuri Milner to recognize those individuals who have made profound contributions to human knowledge. The team also includes:

Chris Barnes
Olivier Doré
Joanna Dunkley
Ben Gold
Michael Greason
Mark Halpern
Robert Hill
Al Kogut
Eiichiro Komatsu
David Larson
Michele Limon
Stephan Meyer
Michael Nolta
Nils Odegard
Hiranya Peiris
Kendrick Smith
Greg Tucker
Licia Verde
Janet Weiland
Ed Wollack
Ned Wright

Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation Award (ISSNAF)

2017
Recipient: Camilla Pacifici
Camilla Pacifici won the annual ISSNAF Award for Young Investigators in the astrophysics and chemistry category for her work on the formation of galaxies, from the Big Bang to our Milky Way. Founded in 2008 and supported by the Italian Embassy in the United States, the foundation promotes cooperation in science, academia and technology between Italian researchers and scholars who operate in North America and the world of research in Italy.

Aspen Italia Award

2017
Recipient: Francesco Tombesi (662)
The Aspen Institute Italia Award is given annually to a research project studying applied or theoretical natural sciences involving collaboration between Italian and U.S. scientists and institutions. Francesco Tombesi and coauthors Marcio B. Meléndez Hernández, Sylvain Veilleux, James N. Reeves, Christopher Reynolds (UMD) and Eduardo González Alfonso (University of Alcalá, Spain) won the 2017 award for a paper reporting observations of a powerful wind from the accretion disk of the central supermassive black hole in the active galaxy IRAS F11119+3257, which drives a large-scale molecular outflow.

American Physical Society Fellowship

2017
Recipient: John G Baker (663)
For groundbreaking contributions in gravitational-wave simulations of binary black holes and other numerous contributions in gravitational-wave data analysis in support of future space-based gravitational wave mission, such as LISA.

NASA Honor Award - Distinguished Service Medal

2017
Recipients: Steven J Kempler (660) Show all Recipients , Paul A. Newman (610), Stephen Cash, Mike French, Peter Gnoffo, Kelly Hayhurst, Robin Henderson, Brenda Manuel, Carol Mosier, Ronald Mueller, Dava Newman, David Radzanowski, Albert Sofge, Ellen Stofan, Patrick Troutman, Tereasa Washington, David Weaver, Richard Williams, Jeffrey Davis, Michael Hesse (670)

NASA Honor Award - Outstanding Leadership Medal

2017
Recipients: Harley A Thronson (660) Show all Recipients , Gavin A. Schmidt (611), Robert E Wolfe (619), Maria M Kuznetsova (674), Edwin J Grayzeck (690.1)

NASA Honor Award - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

2017
Recipients: Sylvain Germain Guiriec (661), John W Mitchell (661) Show all Recipients , George V Khazanov (673), Virgil Kunde, Ping Yang

NASA Honor Award - Early Career Public Achievement Medal

2017
Recipients: Giuseppe Cataldo (665) Show all Recipients , Charles A Malespin (699)

Dan David Prize

2017
Recipient: 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 - Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal

09.15.2016
Recipients: Francesco Tombesi (662), Hiroya Yamaguchi (662) Show all Recipients , Matthew T Deland (614), Alexander Marshak (613), William M Putman (610.1)

NASA Honor Award - Group Achievement Award

09.15.2016
Recipients: Super TIGER Recovery Team (Thomas Hams) Show all Recipients , Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Science Team (Alan Title), MMS/FPI Commissioning Team (Alexander Barrie), MODIS Characterization Support Team (Xiaoxiong Xiong), STORM Suborbital Rocket Experiment Team (David Sibec), VIIRS Level-1 Software Working Group (Frederick Patt)

John C. Lindsay Memorial Award for Space Science

2016
Recipient: Richard L Kelley (660)
Rich led the development of the Hitomi Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS), a technological marvel consisting of an X-ray calorimeter at the focus of a foil mirror. The SXS produced the first direct measurements of gas turbulence and bulk motions in the Perseus Cluster. The entire SXS team had contributions that far exceeded the sum of their individual efforts, producing transformational scientific results from exceptional technical achievements. The fall colloquium series will include the Lindsay Award Winner lecture, where you may hear more from Rich about this fascinating work. Congratulations to the SXS Team and hearty congratulations to Rich!

Breakthrough Prizes in Fundamental Physics

05.03.2016
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.

GSFC Honor Award - Science Team

2015
Recipient: JWST Project Science Team (John Mather)

GSFC Honor Award - Science

2015
Recipients: Brad Cenko (661), Francesco Tombesi (662), Hiroya Yamaguchi (662) Show all Recipients , Alexander Marshak (613), Nai-Yung Christina Hsu (613), Lok Nath Lamsal (614), Matthew T Deland (614), Stefanie N Milam (691), Avi M Mandell (693), Michael Doyle Smith (693), Caroline Freissinet (699)

GSFC Honor Award - Mentoring

2015
Recipient: Richard K Barry (667)

GSFC Honor Award - Leadership

2015
Recipients: Amber N Straughn (665) Show all Recipients , Craig J Pollock (673)

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